Information Governance Lead

Posting date:	12 January 2026
Salary:	£30,426.00 to £34,392.00 per year
Additional salary information:	£30426.00 - £34392.00 a year
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	01 February 2026
Location:	Blackpool, FY4 4EW
Company:	NHS Jobs
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	U0051-26-0000

Summary

Day to Day Duties to include, but not exhausted: As our IG Lead, youll be at the forefront of driving a privacy by design mindset across all teams. You will be responsible for: Awareness, Training & Engagement: designing and delivering engaging and practical staff training. To lead initiatives to raise awareness of IG, Data Protection, Confidentiality and Records Management, plus more. Provide accessible advice and support to staff at all levels. Champion a positive culture of compliance and good practice in a pragmatic way applicable to the environments in which we work. Youll be a coach instilling the best practices in a way that sticks, adapting styles as required for the audience, ensuring IG awareness becomes part of everyday working culture. You will need to be able to connect to audiences in different ways and be confident in presenting at meetings or to groups up to 30. Information Governance and data protection: design and chair IG and information asset owner working groups including agenda creation, minutes and action plans and reports. Implementing and overseeing policies and frameworks that ensure data is handled responsibly, legally and securely in line with NHS, ICO and regulatory standards and to coach and support IG champions. Provide assurance and compliance evidence to support NHS DSPT toolkit completion. Support FCMS work towards future accreditations of ISO:27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus. Monitoring, Audit & Continuous Improvement: Assist with IG audits and compliance checks, identify gaps, recommend improvements and support implementation. To manage the audit calander and implement actions from an IG strategic 12-month focus. To manage the compliance required such as DPIAs, data sharing agreements, information asset registers, day-to-day GDPR queries plus more! Data Subject Rights and Records Management: support processing of SARs, FOI requests and any complaints received in relation to data protection or information governance. Support with investigations as required. Assist with records management processes including retention, secure disposal and data quality audits. Incident Response & Resilience: review data/security breaches or incidents in a timely manner and support teams in any investigations required and produce reports as needed promoting learning outcomes. shape our response protocols and business continuity plans, testing these and supporting services with BCP and incident responses so we are always ready for the unexpected! Data Sharing and Contracts: Support review of DSAs/DPAs, DPIAs and information related contract clauses and liaise with internal and external parties on data handling and compliance. Cyber Security support: You will support the review of systems as part of DPIA reviews to include cyber security, using internal and external resources available to aid this. This is not a specialist or dedicated cyber security role but may include on occasion supporting risk assessments, audits and reviews alongside consultants to identify vulnerabilities and strengthen our defenses whether that is within digital systems, processes or people and environments. Internal ICT oversight: You will be the conduit between external ICT services and FCMS to escalate any issues that arise and seek key assurances and KPIs required for data protection or cyber assurances, using frameworks such as the NHSE DSPT. To support policy-based access controls working with external ICT services and internal departments. To assist FCMS to fully understand our complex ICT infrastructure so as to support our IG and GDPR requirements. Other duties are required: This Job Description will be periodically reviewed in the light of developing work requirements. This is an evolving role and therefore, these duties are not exhaustive. The role may change via discussion between the post-holder, line managers and relevant others. The individual in post will be expected to contribute towards that revision. The post holder will be expected to cover the reception desk and administration tasks of Newfield House during unplanned absences additionally and carry out any other duties as required and delegated by the Head of Quality and Risk. General: To have responsibility for all things under the umbrella of Quality and Risk, maintaining a level of understanding regarding working practices and to always comply with local Safety Policies and Procedures. To observe national and local policies and procedures in respect of: health and safety, Fire and electrical safety, data security and GDPR, counter fraud, Basic Life Support, safeguarding and Infection Control. The post will primarily be based at Newfield House, Blackpool and there is a requirement to travel to other sites and deliver training or help resolve issues within an out of hours setting (evenings and weekends), as required. All mandatory and additional training must be kept up to date as a requirement to this role. Additional training is further required to be undertaken for this post. Our key expectations are: Self-awareness Living authentically Adaptability- Being ready to adjust depending on the situation Openness What you see is what you get Positivity with a real sense of being able to strive for the impossible Generosity of spirit- Everyday should be an opportunity to act with kindness Ability to have fun Taking the role seriously, whilst being yourself Our Why: To nurture an environment of inspiration, innovation and disruption so this people in our world receive exceptional healthcare for this generation, and the next. Values:Our organisational culture is very important to us, so it is vital that the successful candidate lives and breathes complimentary values and behaviours. Our behaviours should be in line with our values which form part of our Company DNA: Fun: People rarely succeed unless they are having fun. Happiness is healthy! Awesome: We arent here to be average, were here to be awesome! Humble: Were here to make a difference to the lives of others, NOT to see how important we can become Brave: We challenge the norm. We have the courage to get the difficult jobs done Oompf: We have natural oompf! Its infectious! Go-getting: We are intuitive to changing needs and respond quickly which we do with energy, ideas, and positivity Come and be a part of our amazing team! We offer NHS Pension Cycle to Work Scheme Career Development Opportunities Attendance Bonus Staff Benefit Scheme Free Tea & Coffee Eye Care Contributions Disability Confident Employer As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy DBS - This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exemption Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. This will require three forms of valid ID to be produced and verified. The onboarding process is also subject to an Occupational Health check, suitable professional references and eligibility to work in the UK (with the requirement to provide relevant documentation as evidence). For Driver positions you will also be required to undertake a Driver check.