Cyber Security Specialist

Job Description

This vacancy is open exclusively to internal applicants currently employed by Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.

NHS Band 6 Salary: £39,959 - £48,117 per annum

Hours per Week: full time 37.5

Contract Type: Temporary for 23 months

Job purpose

The Cyber Security Specialist will work as Technical lead to help manage cyber security compliance across the Trusts Digital Infrastructure and applications, reducing our Threat Exposure Score and minimising the attack surface across.  

The post will liaise across Desktop, Applications, Systems and Network Teams to ensure all colleagues are kept updated and take the requisite actions to remediate threats to maintain security and integrity of Trust systems

Job summary

• To monitor privilege account usage working with the relevant engineers to ensure security requirements are met i.e. concept of least privilege, - separation of admin accounts and day-to-day accounts etc.
• To proactively monitor the Digital estate using the cyber tools available to identify potential threats, vulnerabilities and indicators of compromise. Then acting on the highly complex information in a suitable manner as required to allow The Trust to respond to and mitigate risk.
• Work with the relevant teams to ensure that all systems, (including mobile devices, PCs, Servers and network devices etc), are patched to recommended levels, applying security fixes and configurations as recommended by NHS Digital CareCERT.
• To use the cyber tool set to undertake in house audits of the Digital estate and produce the required reports.
• To assist auditors and third party companies to undertake IT security audits. With a view to maintaining continuous improvement within the estate.
• To maintain continual professional development to stay up to date with changing technologies and complete any relevant training that comes with this position

For full job details, please refer to enclosed job description 

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree in a computer related subject / Level 4 Apprenticeship in IT or
• An equivalent level of knowledge and expertise acquired by experience
• Willingness to study and complete additional cyber courses and qualifications
• Relevant post graduate cyber specific qualifications, i.e. CISSP, relevant product specific training in SIEM / AV / Vulnerability scanning etc, technical qualifications i.e. MCSE etc or an equivalent level of knowledge and expertise acquired by experience

Desirable

• ITIL foundation or equivalent
• CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional)
• Understanding of NHS standards, practices and operations
• Experience of non-Microsoft Operating systems such as Unix/Linux

Additional Information

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs. 

For more information, please see our People and OD Strategy 2026