Cyber Security Analyst

Overview Cyber Operations purpose is to support safe care and build public trust by building NHS England's cyber resilience and enabling the wider health system to be cyber resilient, supporting Transformation Directorate's purpose of delivering the best care and outcomes for the NHS.The GRC team, within the CISO Function, plays a critical role by establishing strong governance frameworks, maintaining clear and usable security policies and standards, delivering robust cyber risk management, and providing assurance through compliance, audit, and control effectiveness activities. The team ensures decision makers have clear, evidence based views of security posture and maturity.As a Cyber Security Analyst in our Security GRC team, you'll play a key role in protecting what matters most, enabling the organisation to operate securely, confidently, and compliantly in an increasingly complex threat landscape.We are looking for talented security professionals to shape security outcomes, influence decision making, and work at the intersection of technology, risk, and business strategy. You won't just be writing policies, you'll be helping people understand risk, make better decisions, and embed security into everyday ways of working. The role ensures that security controls, policies, and processes align with regulatory requirements, recognised standards, and organisational risk appetite, enabling informed decision making and continuous improvement of the security posture.ResponsibilitiesWork with and support Cyber Security Leads to deliver against the requirements of the NHSE Security Model and Cyber Operations Business Plan, thereby helping to reduce overall security risk to the organisation.Engage diverse stakeholders on GRC activities to drive security improvements, acting as a point of contact, ensuring communications are actioned in a timely manner to ensure risks and issues are prioritised and managed accordingly.Support the development and management of key security metrics, dashboards and reporting to enable informed, evidenced based decision making.Provide support to key system and service development teams to ensure a secure by design and continual assurance approach is maintained.Support the creation, development and review cycles of data security related technical and non-technical policies, standards, and implementation guides for systems, solutions and services.Supporting cyber security governance and assurance activities, producing meeting papers, tracking actions and decisions, and ensuring effective follow up and reporting to senior stakeholders.Undertake research and make use of available information from multiple data streams to support, advise and inform decision making on data security best practice.Support the organisation with the provision of security advice and guidance to relevant teams within NHS England assuring cyber resilience.Our InitiativesEnabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalitiesMaking the NHS a great place to work, where people can develop and make a differenceWorking collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate careOptimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovationDelivering value for moneyEarlier this year, the Government announced that NHS England will gradually merge with the Department of Health and Social Care, to create a smaller, more strategic centre that reduces duplication and waste.If successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on, A public health organization in Exeter seeks a Cyber Security Analyst to enhance security resilience across NHS England. The role involves collaborating with Cyber Security Leads, managing key security metrics, and developing policies to align with regulatory requirements...., A national healthcare authority in England seeks a Cyber Security Analyst to enhance cyber resilience and support security governance. The successful candidate will work on risk management and communicate security policies effectively. This role offers opportunities to... © 2026, Jobsora.com

average, at least 40% of their time working in-person. Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms - enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information about the role and responsibilities.Please ensure your supporting statement includes demonstratable evidence and specific examples on how you meet the criteria for each of the key skills specified. This will be used in both the shortlisting and interview processes.Important Security Clearance Requirements All NHS England Cyber Security personnel must hold Security Clearance level as a minimum. To meet National Security Vetting requirements, SC clearances require 5 years continuous UK residency. In certain cases, this can be reduced to three years continuous UK residency, with additional overseas checks for the previous two years. Candidates who were posted abroad for service with HM Government, Armed Forces or within a UK government role - will still be considered.Please make sure you meet these requirements before applying for this role. You don't need to have SC already, however, failure to achieve the requirements for SC after offer will result in the job offer being withdrawn. For further advice please check the UK government security clearance info.Additional Information Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.Please note that the reason for the fixed term of this contract is covering maternity leave.This advert closes on Tuesday 17 Mar 2026.#J-18808-Ljbffr Similar jobs