Senior Information Governance Officer

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting for an exciting and challenging role, as a Senior Information Governance Officer.

The Information Governance Department processes all applications to access information made under the provisions of the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018 and the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Working with other Senior Information Governance Officers, you will manage a small team of Officers helping to process requests for information, preparing, checking and making disclosures within statutory deadlines., To work with the Information Governance Management team to continually develop and review the services provided.

To be responsible for the monitoring and maintenance of the department database to ensure that all information requests are processed within the statutory timeframe and that accurate information on all key performance indicators is available for the Information Governance Management team.

To identify efficiency improvements and to implement any training and development needs.

To provide management support for the Information Governance Manager to ensure that the departmental objectives are met.

To support the monitoring of compliance with internal and external governance and best practice requirements in the service.

To support conflict resolution with patients, staff, other internal and external service providers and partner organisations.

You will need to be hard working, creative and show flexibility when required to effectively manage the workload of Information Governance Officers.

You will need to prioritise tasks, often in the face of competing demands and have an understanding of how the Data Protection Act 2018 and the Freedom of Information Act 2000 are applied to these requests.

To succeed in this role; you will need to have excellent communication skills and the ability to develop working relationships with staff across the Trust, patients and members of the public.

You must be well organised, be able to manage staff and have excellent computer skills. The ability to work unsupervised with a high degree of accuracy while carrying out a variety of administrative tasks is essential. Full training in data protection and freedom of information law is available.

Guy's and St Thomas' is one of the largest hospital trusts in the country, with around 25,000 staff; an annual turnover of more than £2.4 billion; and 2.2 million patient contacts a year. Our hospitals have a long and proud history, dating back almost 900 years, and have been at the forefrontof medical progress and innovation since they were founded. We continue to build on these traditions and have a reputation for clinical, teachingand research excellence.

We provide a full range of hospital services for our local communities and community services for patients in Lambeth and Southwark. We also provide specialist services for patients from further afield, including cancer, cardiac, kidney, women's and orthopaedic services, and we are home to the Evelina Children's Hospital.

As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staffgroups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends. We also havea positive approach to corporate social responsibility and are keen to engage our staff in an agenda that ranges from promoting environmentalsustainability to the creation of local employment opportunities.