# Cyber Security Analyst Advanced

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Weston General Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Analyst
- **Salary:** £49387.00 to £56515.00
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-19T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-05T10:22:23.387Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8339479
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8339479?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.uhbw.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### 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.

## Person Specification

### Your Personal Qualities

**Essential**

- Ability to foster excellent working relationships at all levels.
- Ability to build trust-based relationships and maintain confidentiality.
- Flexible and proactive ‘can-do’ attitude.
- Demonstrates care and compassion in all aspects of work
- Self-motivated and able to motivate others
- Commitment to CPD for self and others, maintaining up-to-date knowledge of relevant regulations and implementing changes as required.
- Ability to add value to workstreams

### Qualifications and Experience

**Essential**

- Degree-level qualification relevant to the role or demonstrable equivalent experience.
- Specialist cyber-related qualification.
- Previous experience of working to tight KPIs or targets.
- Experience contributing to strategic plans and policies.
- Experience with project and change management skills and/or techniques.
- Experience working in a large and complex multi-tiered environment.

**Desirable**

- Previous experience working in digital roles within the NHS or a healthcare setting.
- Previous experience managing a team.

### Skills, Knowledge and Competencies

**Essential**

- Knowledge of digital best practice, information security, and information governance.
- Broad working knowledge of current practices and issues in the cyber field.
- Advanced keyboard skills.
- Proven ability to maintain excellent attention to detail.
- Ability to use own judgement and problem-solve effectively.
- Ability to plan, prioritise, and manage conflicting agendas and priorities for yourself and others to meet challenging deadlines
- Ability to evaluate multiple options to support decision-making.
- Excellent communication skills to convey often highly complex technical, digital, or cyber issues to non-technical audiences.
- Ability to act as a change agent.

## Documents

- [dbs charges information (pdf, 71.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3005)
- [dbs charges information (pdf, 119.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2397)
- [uhbw staff benefits book (pdf, 12.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2131)
- [uhbw behaviours and values (pdf, 299.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2476)
- [policy statement - ex offenders (pdf, 424.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=667)
- [cyber security analyst - advanced (pdf, 272.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10663449)

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