Digital and Cyber Assurance PartnerNHS
Job summary
This role offers an opportunity to help ensure digital services are secure, compliant, and resilient across the cluster Integrated Care Board (ICB). As Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire, Dorset and Somerset ICBs come together to form a single organisation, you will lead the development of governance frameworks, cyber security risk and digital assurance arrangements that enable safe digital transformation.
Working closely with colleagues across the cluster and wider Integrated Care Systems (ICS), you will provide expert advice on cyber security, digital risk and regulatory compliance, supporting informed decision-making and effective risk management. The role is central to promoting best practice, building organisational awareness, and embedding secure-by-design principles across digital services. You will help ensure new technologies and digital transformation programmes align with organisational and regulatory requirements, including the Data Security and Protection Toolkit (DSPT) and Cyber Essentials Plus, while strengthening confidence in the organisation's digital and cyber resilience.
Main duties of the job
As the Digital & Cyber Assurance Partner, you will help shape a safe, secure and resilient digital environment across the organisation and wider health and care system. You will work with a diverse range of stakeholders to provide assurance, challenge, and expert advice, ensuring digital initiatives are delivered with appropriate consideration of risk, governance, and organisational priorities. The role acts as a bridge between technical teams, governance functions, programme delivery teams, and external partners, helping the organisation make informed decisions about digital risk and assurance. You will be responsible for influencing the development of a strong risk-aware culture that enables innovation. Providing independent assurance and constructive challenge to programmes, projects and operational teams. You will also offer subject matter expertise, coaching, and guidance to colleagues to strengthen governance and assurance capability across the organisation. You will build effective relationships with stakeholders to support a consistent and collaborative approach to governance and assurance across the health and care system. The postholder will strengthen organisational resilience by helping services anticipate, prepare for, and respond to digital and cyber-related threats and disruptions.
Job description
Please also refer to attached Job Description.
The Digital & Cyber Assurance Partner is responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining governance, assurance, and risk management frameworks that ensure digital, cyber, and data environments across the ICB and wider ICS are safe, secure, compliant, and resilient. The post holder will act as a subject matter expert in both digital governance and cyber assurance, embedding a privacyfirst and securitybydesign culture. The role supports safe digital transformation, ensuring compliance with cyber security standards, data protection requirements, clinical safety principles, and national NHS policies. The role works closely with DDaT teams, IT Infrastructure & Cyber Operations, Information Governance (IG), Clinical Safety Officers, programme teams, suppliers, ICS partners, and national bodies to ensure digital services are delivered safely, securely, and in alignment with regulatory and organisational standards.
About us
Under the Model ICB Blueprint and the 10 Year Health Plan, ICBs will adopt a more strategic commissioning role, focusing on population needs, reducing inequalities, and delivering the three shifts as defined in the 10 year health plan, all while operating within strict financial limits.
The new organisation will operate on a larger scale with a revised vision and purpose, managing a commissioning budget of around £8 billion. Our role as a strategic commissioner is to transform our local NHS through exceptional commissioning and build an innovative health system fit for the 21st century that truly meets our communities needs. Informed by high quality data and insights, we will radically re-imagine how we operate, making sure that every pound in our system delivers the best possible value for everyone we serve.
We will encourage and support our people to grow and develop new skills and embrace new agile ways of working. Everyone is encouraged to contribute ideas, seek feedback, and take part in creating a listening and learning culture where insight leads to improvement.
We will work as a team of teams, collaborating across services and professions to deliver the best outcomes for our communities. You will be encouraged, and expected to model inclusive behaviours, valuing diverse perspectives and helping to create a workplace where everyone feels respected, supported, and able to thrive.