Person Specification

Qualifications & Education

Essential

• Be educated to degree level or have equivalent relevant management and technical experience plus experience in a supervisor or management role.
• A portfolio of practical experience in Cyber Security

Desirable

• A portfolio of practical experience in Cyber Security
• Project management skills
• CISSP or related Certification

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

• Broad-based technical knowledge covering all aspects of infrastructure from networking, end-user devices through to servers and data centres
• Understanding of Information Security principles
• Knowledge of the Data Protection Act

Desirable

• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills
• Strong presentation skills
• Strong analytical skills are required to interpret, analyse and present highly complex multi-stranded information of varying quality from a number of diverse sources.
• Experience of producing business cases and executive papers
• Good stakeholder management
• Report writing

Skills & Abilities

Essential

• Ability to communicate highly complex issues to a wide range of non-technical end users from multiple backgrounds and organisations, including “difficult” users
• Must have excellent documentation writing skills to create and develop processes and procedures relating to the services delivered by the Infrastructure teams
• Excellent interpersonal skills, building effective professional relationships with end users, departmental system administrators and departmental managers
• Ability to perform as an effective team player, and on own initiative
• Establish and maintain informal internal or external relationships to gain knowledge that can be adopted and adapted to improve the IT department

Desirable

• Ability to communicate effectively with 3rd party vendors such as Large Account Resellers (LAR’s), staff and technical staff from other NHS organisations including NHS Digital, NSCS and Information Governance

Values I Behavioural I Attitudes

Essential

• Excellent communications skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent decision-making ability

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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).