Job summary
- Main area
- Cyber
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday – 37.5 hours per week Flexible working between 8am-6pm)
- Job ref
- 110-AC180-0725
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Communications Hub Williamstown
- Town
- Williamstown
- Salary
- £54,550 - £61,412 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Head of Cyber Security Operations
Band 8a
Thank you for your interest in joining Cwm Taf Morgannwg (CTM) University Health Board.
Located in the heart of South Wales, we’re central to Cardiff, Newport, and Swansea. Deeply rooted in our community, as an NHS organisation we are dedicated to providing compassionate patient care and building healthier communities together.
At CTM, you’ll be part of a supportive, inclusive team of over 14,500 people from diverse nations, cultures, and backgrounds. As a family-friendly employer, we’re committed to promoting flexibility and are happy to discuss flexible working options.
Discover more about working with us here:
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Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed
Job overview
The post holder will contribute to the delivery of Healthcare for people within the Cwm Taf Morgannwg area, by ensuring that the Health Board’s Cyber Security defences are robust and effectively managed to optimal standards.
They will also ensure that all aspects of this service are fit for purpose, deliver value and identify and mitigate risks as appropriate. The delivery of these services will also need to be carried out in a manner that aligns to both industry, organisational and national standards where applicable.
Main duties of the job
To support ongoing developments with the delivery Digital services within the Health Board, the CTM ICT Department are looking to appoint a Head of Cyber Security Operations.
Applicants should be educated to degree level, preferably in a cyber security related subject, or have appropriate / equivalent experience. Previous experience in an ICT Management role, is required, and the candidate should have practical experience in ICT Operations, ideally in the Healthcare setting.
Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn’t mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing and selecting candidates. This isn’t ‘fluency’, just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This appointment will manage all aspects of the Health Board’s Cyber Security Operations in an efficient manner and appropriate to the requirements of the individual services supported, to include:
⦁ Malware detection and eradication
⦁ Secure configuration
⦁ Compliance to standards such as NIS-D, CE+, NIST
⦁ Update and Vulnerability Management
⦁ Legacy platform eradication
⦁ Support the adoption of cloud services
⦁ Budgetary control
⦁ System resilience and recovery
⦁ All resources associated with cyber security including hardware, software and a team of Senior Cyber Security Managers, Officers and junior staff.
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.
Person specification
Technical Qualificaitons and Experience
Essential criteria
- BSc Degree in related area
- Professional Qualifications in Cyber Security
Desirable criteria
- Masters in related area
- Welsh language Speaking/Listening Level 3 or above
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience of IT Management at a senior level within an NHS organisation.
- Experience of working collaboratively with internal and external organisations and boards
- Extensive experience as a Cyber Security Professional
- Experience of working in a technical support role and proven experience in the development and support of ICT systems.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of Application Support
- Experience of Server Support
- Experience of performance and data management
- Experience of Network Support
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Paul Chilcott
- Job title
- Lead Infrastructure and Security Architect
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01685 72 4434
- Additional information
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