Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for the requirements of the role

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to masters level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
• Proven and significant leadership experience
• Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus
• further specialist knowledge or experience to masters level equivalent
• Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
• Significant evidence of continued professional development
• Significant management experience at senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry
• Proven Board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically
• sensitive and complex environment
• Proven record in transferring processes and roles between locations.
• Commissioning expertise in healthcare environment
• Significant experience and understanding of proven implementation of project management methodologies
• Member of a relevant professional body
• Education sector knowledge
• Experience and/or understanding of the Health Economy
• Understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on
• engagement
• Should have an appreciation of the relationship between different health and social care bodies including individual provider and commissioning organisations
• Commercial expertise
• Awareness of relevant public and private sector business management best practice
• Experience of successfully operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment

Skills, abilities and knowledge

Essential

• Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills
• Strong external communications skills in a politically sensitive environment and experience in handling media
• Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of
• stakeholders as required
• Extensive experience of delivering presentations to large groups of
• stakeholders in often pressured and politically sensitive environments
• Ability to analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources
• Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making
• Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate initiatives
• Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills
• Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
• Ability to provide informative reporting on finances and impact to Board management
• Experience of project and programme management techniques and tools such as Prince 2 or Managing Successful Projects
• High level critical thinking skills
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Demonstrates sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary from more senior management when appropriate
• Ability to develop, maintain and monitor information systems to support innovation initiatives

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working
• to tight and often changing timescales
• Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues
• Experience in leading a major change initiative with entrepreneurialism in a challenging organisational environment
• Experience of creating a new team and motivating and inspiring colleagues to work together to achieve a common objective
• Ability to delegate effectively
• Ability to work effectively between strategic and operational activities where required
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes
• Determination, perseverance, and resilience
• Flexibility, and the ability to handle a rapidly changing and ambiguous environment

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Dorset

Address

NHS Dorset Integrated Care Board

County Hall

Colliton Park

Dorchester

Dorset

DT1 1XJ

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://nhsdorset.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

For detailed information on this IT Cyber Specialist job, please refer to the attached Job Description.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Please also refer to the detailed Person Specification attached.
• Strong technical understanding of cyber security principles, secure configuration, threat detection and vulnerability management
• Experience working with security monitoring and protective tooling such as:
• Microsoft MDE
• Vulnerability scanning tools
• Identity security and multi-factor authentication
• Working knowledge of Microsoft 365 security in nhs.net connect
• Understanding of network security concepts (e.g., firewalls, segmentation, IDS/IPS, DNS filtering).
• Knowledge of patching methodologies, operating system hardening, and baseline compliance
• Awareness of national NHS cyber policies, cyber alerts, and regulatory expectations e.g. NIS and DSPT CAF
• Hands-on technical experience supporting cyber security operations in a complex IT environment
• Experience analysing security alerts, investigating incidents, correlating events, and contributing to incident response
• Experience conducting vulnerability assessments, patch compliance checks and remediation tracking
• Experience working with IT teams to improve security posture across endpoints, servers, networks, and cloud environments
• Experience documenting incidents, maintaining risk registers, and producing security reports
• Ability to communicate technical cyber risks clearly and appropriately to both technical and non-technical colleagues
• Ownership of issues
• Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales
• The promotion of equality of opportunity and good working relations (providing practical leadership)
• Self-motivated
• Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values
• Embrace change, viewing it as an opportunity to learn and develop

Qualifications

Essential

• Please also refer to the detailed Person Specification attached.
• Educated to degree level in a relevant IT, cyber security, or computer science discipline, or able to demonstrate equivalent specialist experience at an advanced technical level. Professional cyber security qualification(s) desirable, such as:
• CompTIA Security+
• CompTIA CySA+
• EC-Council CEH (Desirable) CISSP / CCSP / CISM (or working toward)
• Evidence of ongoing professional development in cyber security, threat detection, security monitoring, and vulnerability management
• Knowledge of NHS cyber frameworks (DSPT, Cyber Assessment Framework, NIS/NIS2) acquired through formal training or relevant experience
• Training or certification in security tooling (MDE, vulnerability management, identity protection) advantageous

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Dorset

Address

NHS Dorset Integrated Care Board

NHS Dorset - County Hall

Colliton Park

Dorchester

Dorset

DT1 1XJ

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://nhsdorset.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)