Senior Specialist Information Analyst - Scotland, United Kingdom - NHS Education for Scotland

Description

Flexible Location: Based throughout Scotland, NES is a remote friendly employer supporting office and hybrid working. We're happy to talk about how you want to work.

Work Pattern: Permanent, Full Time, 37 hours per week.

You must have eligibility and entitlement to work in the UK which is required to be maintained throughout your period of employment.

Who We Are

NHS Education for Scotland (NES) is the national health board with statutory responsibilities to effect sustainable change through workforce development, education and training across the health and social care system in Scotland, while working at UK level with partner organisations.

NES Technology Service (NTS) has created a strategic programme for the transformation of digital based services to allow NES to become a leading digital organisation in Scottish Health, digital by default and fully aligned with the Scottish Government's technology strategies.

Our Technology

We are in the business of providing safe, secure and innovative technology products and services that aim to improve outcomes across education, training, workforce, health and care in the public sector in Scotland. Using modern cloud-based technology we deliver sustainable products and services for the future.

The Opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity to support the NES Technology Service Directorate and the Data & Assurance department to deliver their strategic objectives and to be a key member of the Information Assurance team supporting the corporate position across NES.

We are looking for a motivated, hardworking individual to join our team.

To enable delivery of the NES Strategy , and assist NTS in our contribution to delivering against the Scottish Government Digital Health and Care Strategy and Data Strategy, NTS is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Specialist Information Analyst (Data Protection)to provide specialist support to the delivery of NTS digital solutions.

Do you want to play a key role in ensuring the delivery of a robust foundation for the accountability, transparency, and secure use of personal identifiable data in the delivery of essential health and care digital systems?

Do you enjoy working in a multi-disciplinary team at the edge of technological innovations?

Do you want to play a key role in ensuring that citizens data in the NHSScotland is appropriately processed and securely and lawfully used?

Do you want to play an important role in delivering the NES Strategy, Digital Health and Care Strategy and Data Strategy for Scotland?

Do you enjoy working at pace and being adaptive to an ever-changing environment?

Working within the NTS Information Assurance team you will have the opportunity to provide expert Senior Specialist Information Analyst (Data Protection)support to the NTS Domains, which will directly inform the development and delivery of this national programmes from a data privacy aspect.

In this role you will also act as the Deputy Data Protection Officer, providing comprehensive and expert support to the NES Data Protection Officer in driving data protection compliance within NES. This includes the day to day management of the Data Protection Managers.

Does this sound like you?

What We Love to See

Senior Specialist Information Analysts in Data Protection can offer a broad range of skills and experience, if you can offer some or all of these, we'd love you to apply:

Benefits Which Matter

As a valued employee of NHS Scotland, you can enjoy an extensive range of benefits including:

Diversity and Inclusion

Developing a successful national service for Scotland is impossible without ensuring we consider the diverse needs, perspectives and backgrounds of everyone in Scotland in our work.

We are focused on hiring the very best talent available for NES, and actively encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and aim to ensure everyone is treated fairly, with respect and has a positive recruitment experience – regardless of the outcome.

It's not essential to be in a Senior Specialist Information Analyst role in Data Protection right now.You may be returning from a career break (e.g. maternity, paternity, caring for others) or returning after working in another field. Your experiences elsewhere can bring a fresh perspective to our work.

Next Steps

Our recruitment process is currently 100% remote and if successful you would initially work remotely, working from our offices as operationally required.

All applicants who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail.

Online interviews (including presentation/exercise) will take place between Tuesday 4 – Thursday 6 June 2024. The presentation/exercise topic will be sent to candidates selected for interview.

For further information please refer to the Job Information Pack below.

Unless otherwise stated the deadline for applications is 23:59 hours on the closing date. Please note, CV's will not be accepted .