SEL ICS IG Operations Manager

Job overview

The SEL ICS IG Operations Manager will be part of SLAM’s Information Governance (IG) Department and provide dedicated support to the delivery of IG Projects for the South East London Integrated Care System.

Career progression pathways and development opportunities:

We are committed to get the very best out of our staff and support staff in their career aspirations. We have career pathways available, where you will be able to develop your skills and build on your experience to progress into other roles across different specialties. For this role, we offer career pathways to Senior manager roles within the IG and the wider team. In addition, we offer ongoing training and development in conjunction with the BCS membership.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will manage all aspects of IG pertaining to projects that span across multiple organisations in the ICS.  The post holder is responsible for the delivery of an agreed work plan. This will include creation and review of documentation, stakeholder engagement, coordination of meetings and management of committees to support the compliance of the programmes of work and the documents associated with these.

The post-holder will be responsible for advising on, implementing and raising awareness of nationally mandated guidance and standards from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), NHS England, Department of Health & Social Care, Health Research Authority (HRA), National Institute for Health Research and UKRI.

Flexible working:

As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. In this role you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames from 8am to 6pm, giving you the very best of good work life balance.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

To manage the IG for the SEL ICB project work.  Including the London Data Service and SEL London Care Record.

To provide expert guidance on legal and statutory obligations relating to research, information and data governance, including Data Protection Act 2018, UK GDPR, Data Security and Protection Toolkit (DSPT), NHS England, NHS X, ICO and HRA guidance.

Work closely with ICB programme managers, SEL Organisations and external stakeholders to maintain a high degree of awareness and application of IG standards to direct care, research and development, providing detailed guidance and expertise on enquiries concerning data protection and confidentiality in relation to programmes.

Manage several boards across the ICS required to maintain IG compliance.  Including organising meetings, creating meeting packs and monitoring of actions

Work with colleagues across the ICS to ensure the maintenance of information asset registers, contracts registers, information flows and other IG related registers.

Ensure Data Protection Impact Assessments and Information Risk Assessments relating to the projects are completed, and provide expert advice on information and data governance where appropriate.

Ensure creation of IG documents where appropriate, including Data Processing Agreements; Data Sharing Agreements; Contracts and Data Transfer Agreements.

To ensure projects are compliant with legislative requirement for third party contract management pertaining to IG related matters, including data sharing or licensing.

Provide expert specialist information and data governance advice and guidance to the Project Lead, Strategic ICS IG Lead and external stakeholders across the system

To liaise with counterpart IG leads across the ICS to ensure system coordination on the development of and support of projects.

Provide expert, specialist IG advice and expertise on health research and related data access initiatives, developing high-quality, user-friendly and accurate guidance in a range of formats.

Provide IG expertise and advice on use of data for secondary purposes including research management and proposals (grant applications), research ethics and data sharing/licensing and/or service agreements involving personal data.

Monitor compliance of all documentation for project boards included any updates required to contracts, DPIAs or Standard Operating Procedures

Coordinate, maintain and review the SEL Sharing Framework to provide clarity of purpose and enable streamlining of information disclosure routes.

Continue to maintain concurrent knowledge of IG and other related initiatives pertinent to healthcare.

Assist the Strategic ICS IG Lead with work planning. This includes planning and coordinating specialist project advice and technical support, planning and coordinating specialist advice and guidance, including an information hub.

There is an expectation that the postholder may be responsible for contractors/consultants hired to undertake a discrete piece of service work, and/or agency temporary staff.