Job requirements
Essential
22 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Your Personal Qualities
Ability to foster excellent working relationships at all levels.
- Your Personal Qualities
Ability to build trust-based relationships and maintain confidentiality.
- Your Personal Qualities
Flexible and proactive ‘can-do’ attitude.
- Your Personal Qualities
Demonstrates care and compassion in all aspects of work
- Your Personal Qualities
Self-motivated and able to motivate others
- Your Personal Qualities
Commitment to CPD for self and others, maintaining up-to-date knowledge of relevant regulations and implementing changes as required.
- Your Personal Qualities
Ability to add value to workstreams
- Qualifications and Experience
Degree-level qualification relevant to the role or demonstrable equivalent experience.
- Qualifications and Experience
Specialist cyber-related qualification.
- Qualifications and Experience
Previous experience of working to tight KPIs or targets.
- Qualifications and Experience
Experience contributing to strategic plans and policies.
- Qualifications and Experience
Experience with project and change management skills and/or techniques.
- Qualifications and Experience
Experience working in a large and complex multi-tiered environment.
- Skills, Knowledge and Competencies
Knowledge of digital best practice, information security, and information governance.
- Skills, Knowledge and Competencies
Broad working knowledge of current practices and issues in the cyber field.
- Skills, Knowledge and Competencies
Advanced keyboard skills.
- Skills, Knowledge and Competencies
Proven ability to maintain excellent attention to detail.
- Skills, Knowledge and Competencies
Ability to use own judgement and problem-solve effectively.
- Skills, Knowledge and Competencies
Ability to plan, prioritise, and manage conflicting agendas and priorities for yourself and others to meet challenging deadlines
- Skills, Knowledge and Competencies
Ability to evaluate multiple options to support decision-making.
- Skills, Knowledge and Competencies
Excellent communication skills to convey often highly complex technical, digital, or cyber issues to non-technical audiences.
- Skills, Knowledge and Competencies
Ability to act as a change agent.
Desirable
2 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Qualifications and Experience
Previous experience working in digital roles within the NHS or a healthcare setting.
- Qualifications and Experience
Previous experience managing a team.
Job overview
Cyber Security Analyst Advanced – Band 7
Digital Services | City, Southmead and Weston
We are seeking an experienced and motivated Advanced Cyber Security Specialist to join our cyber security team and play a key role in protecting the digital services that support patient care across the Trust.
Working closely with the senior cyber security manager and wider technology services leadership team. you will help shape the Trust’s IT and cyber security strategy, ensuring that security considerations are embedded across digital services while driving continuous improvement and strengthening the organisation’s overall cyber resilience.
This is an excellent opportunity for a cyber professional looking to further develop their technical and leadership skills while working across a diverse and challenging technology landscape.
You will lead on vulnerability management, threat hunting, incident response, risk assessments, DSPT compliance, cloud security, and security improvement programmes. Acting as a subject matter expert, you will provide specialist advice across Microsoft 365, cloud platforms, national systems, and medical devices, while mentoring junior colleagues and supporting security projects.
The successful candidate will have strong technical expertise, excellent communication skills, and experience working within a large, complex environment.
Main duties of the job
The role includes conducting risk assessments, vulnerability management, threat analysis, security monitoring and incident response across Microsoft 365, SharePoint, national systems, cloud platforms, medical devices and wider digital services. You will lead security workstreams within digital projects, support secure cloud deployments, undertake threat hunting, manage evidence gathering and root cause analysis, and help shape cyber policies and procedures.
As a senior technical specialist, you will mentor colleagues, provide expert guidance, deputise for senior team members and promote cybersecurity best practice across the organisation and wider health community. You'll work closely with internal and external stakeholders, including law enforcement and counter fraud teams where required, while ensuring KPI compliance and maintaining robust security operations.
The role also includes participation in a 24/7 on-call rota, providing out-of-hours support for cyber security incidents, alerts and critical escalations. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced cyber professional to influence strategy, improve organisational resilience and help protect critical healthcare services.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
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This advert is for Cyber Security Analyst Advanced with University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust in Weston-super-mare, England. It is listed as a Analyst role. The advertised salary is £49387.00 to £56515.00. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 19 Oct 2026.
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