Job summary
- Main area
- Information Governance - Records Management
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8c
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Secondment for Current NHS employees) (End date: 31 October 2026)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 990-DCE-18459-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wellington Place/ Wellington House/ Any NHS England base
- Town
- Leeds / London / Any NHS England base
- Salary
- £76,965 - £88,682 Per annum (Exclusive of London Weighting)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
IG Lead (RM)
NHS AfC: Band 8c
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
We are an accredited Living Wage Employer which means that every colleague working for our organisation and third-party contractors will earn a real Living Wage. We are one of over 15,000 organisations, who voluntarily chose to pay the real Living Wage.
Job overview
Privacy, Transparency & Trust (PTT) is a sub-directorate of the Deputy Chief Executive Office.
The mission of the PTT Sub-directorate is to enable NHS England to drive innovation and improve lives through greater use of data and technology and to be a well-run organisation.
The PTT Sub-directorate will enable and promote public trust in NHS England’s custodianship of staff, workforce and patient data. This aligns with the new legal duty of NHS England to have regard to the need to respect and promote privacy of patients and the core principles that underpin NHS England as a safe haven of patient data.
The Information Governance Lead (Records Management) will work within Privacy, Transparency and Trust to lead a dynamic and high-achieving team to deliver highly effective, well-coordinated records management service across NHS England.
The postholder will set the strategic direction for the service and lead on the provision of an efficient, effective, professional, and well-co-ordinated records management service capable of meeting all statutory, regulatory and NHS requirements in alignment with the activity of the organisation.
The post holder will lead records management change across the newly merged organisation to ensure NHS England leads as an exemplar organisation for good records management in the NHS.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will contribute their strategic skills, specialist expertise and knowledge to deliver a robust records management programme, which will include but is not limited to the following responsibilities:
• Utilise their strategic vision and creative problem-solving skills to help the Records Management team, PTT and NHSE achieve their long-term goals.
• Develop and maintain records and information management policies, retention schedules and procedures.
• Lead the records team in clearly articulating deliverables and impacts, whilst measuring and reporting on them
• Highlight exceptions and risks ensuring mitigating actions can be taken to keep the overarching records management work programme on track in alignment with the organisation
Working for our organisation
Our work supports the NHS to deliver high quality services for patients and best value for taxpayers.
Our staff bring expertise across hundreds of specialisms — including clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial — enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.
We lead the NHS in England by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities
- Making the NHS a great 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
Earlier this year, the Government announced that NHS England will gradually merge with the Department of Health and Social Care, leading to full integration. The aim is to create a smaller, more strategic centre that reduces duplication and eliminates 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 recruitment process.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You can find further details about the job, organisational structure, recruitment profile, expected outcomes and benefits information in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents
Secondments
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Subject matter expertise across a number of key areas relating to records and information management.
- Experience of delivering against competing priorities and deadlines while also directing the work of teams/individuals.
- Experience of budgetary responsible, including budget setting with evidence of working knowledge of financial processes.
Desirable criteria
- Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, NHS England and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
Skills, Capabilities and Attributes
Essential criteria
- High-level leadership qualities.
- Negotiate on difficult and very complex and detailed issues.
- Plans and organises a broad range of complex activities, formulating and adjusting plans to reflect changing circumstances.
- Demonstrable ability to deliver at pace in complex environment.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Louise Whitworth-Woodhead
- Job title
- Deputy Director of IG Delivery (Digital and Ops)
- Email address
- [email protected]
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