Business Continuity and Security Senior Manager

NHS England

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Job summary

Are you looking for a new, exciting challenge? Would you like the opportunity to lead a dynamic team in delivering an effective Business Continuity Management System for NHS England? This is an excellent opportunity to join the NHS England Corporate Governance Team.

The Corporate Governance team is responsible for championing good governance across NHS England and helping to ensure that the organisation is well run and improving. The team is responsible for several critical corporate activities to support NHS England in good decision making and its system of controls and assurance, enabling the organisation to deliver on its commitments and duties; encouraging management and staff to implement the highest standards of corporate governance across the entire organisation.

Main duties of the job

TheBusiness Continuity and Security Senior Manager will be responsible for the development of a robust and consistent Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) throughout NHS England, leading their team to;

Identify and mitigate business continuity risks which they may be exposed to and ensure Business Continuity Plans (BCPs) are in place;

Ensure that the BCMS provides planning, processes, training and continuous improvement to manage operational incidents throughout the organisation to ensure robust incident response and recovery;

Develop and maintain the use of the staff alert system for business continuity incidents;

Ensure coordination between Business Continuity and Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response (EPRR) / Resilience Team functions;

Complete the annual Business Continuity assurance programme, including review and exercise of BCPs and annual management review.

Support the delivery of internal NHSE security management

About us

In April 2023, NHS England, NHS Digital, and Health Education England merged to create a new, single organisation to lead the NHS in England. This new NHS England is designed to create a simpler, smaller, high performing, organisation that leads the NHS more effectively and is a better place to work. Speaking with one voice to the service.

The new NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:

Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
Making the NHS agreat place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
Delivering value for money.

If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/ .

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.

Date posted

24 May 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£58,972 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

990-S3-COR1398-A

Job locations

Leeds / London

LS1 4PL

Job description

Job responsibilities

You can find further details about the job, in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.

Job description

Job responsibilities

You can find further details about the job, in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.

Person Specification

Essential criteria

Essential

Business Continuity Management qualification/membership of BCM professional body/experience working in BCM role/environment.
Knowledge of methodologies relating to business continuity, incident & risk management, and organisational resilience.
Developing effective team working for BCM across large, multi-site organisation.
Delivery of BCM training and awareness raising across the organisation.
Provision of BCM advice and guidance to BCM leads and other stakeholders across the organisation."

Person Specification

Essential criteria

Essential

Business Continuity Management qualification/membership of BCM professional body/experience working in BCM role/environment.
Knowledge of methodologies relating to business continuity, incident & risk management, and organisational resilience.
Developing effective team working for BCM across large, multi-site organisation.
Delivery of BCM training and awareness raising across the organisation.
Provision of BCM advice and guidance to BCM leads and other stakeholders across the organisation."

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).

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