About the job

Job summary

Here at Defence Medical Services (DMS) HQ, we are inclusive and dedicated, working to provide excellent care to our entitled personnel.

We are looking for a friendly, well-organised and adaptable Information Assurance Assistant Manager to join our team of professionals working within Coltman House at DMS Whittington. 

The Defence Medical Services offer hybrid working. The HQ and primary location for the DMS is Lichfield.  Other base locations may be available depending on business need and whether the location can accommodate additional personnel on site. Other locations that may be considered are MOD Corsham, RAF Wyton, MOD Abbey Wood – Bristol, MOD Northwood and MOD Shrivenham.

The position offers 37 hours per week and requests to work flexibly will be considered, taking into account business needs. Does this sound like the role for you? If so, we would love to hear from you!

Job description

The successful candidate will work within Defence Medical Services (DMS) and sit in the Chief Digital Information Office (CDIO) function. CDIO is at the heart of future healthcare delivery and provides innovative Digital, Information and Data solutions to enhance patient experience. As the Information Assurance Assistant, you will be a critical enabler in driving forward the delivery of tasks to ensure that the Higher Level Budget (HLB) and it's partners is operating at the required levels of Information Assurance Maturity and offers and opportunity to make a significant contribution towards ensuring the business remains compliant with current legislative requirements.

Person specification

The responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Driving the maintenance of the Information Assurance Frameworks for DMS including conducting IA validation checks/reviews. Ensure any areas below that expected have an improvement plan in place.
• Be responsible for escalating impending information risk identified through validations or otherwise to the business before they become issues where possible.
• Support the business to administer the DMS Information Asset Register, and work with business to gather evidence needed to information assurance maturity purposes.

Please see the attached Terms of Reference for further details of the role.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £35,290, Ministry of Defence contributes £9,528 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours.

As part of this application you will be required to submit a 750 word statement on how you meet the Job Description, highlighting any experience of applying maturity models and/or standardised assurance frameworks and any experience of undertaking activities against defined policies and processes.

The sift will be completed within 5 working days of the vacancy closing date and interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed.

At interview, applicants will be tested against the following competencies: Changing and Improving, Communicating and Influencing, Working Together and Making Effective Decisions.

Travel to interview costs will not be reimbursed.

This post does not offer any assistance with relocation allowances.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact dbscivperssgdmsresourcingteam@mod.gov.uk. 

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category and we will not sponsor a visa. It is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points based system.  

Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn. 

Please see the link to our Youtube channel for advice preparing your best responses with some hints and tips on answering behaviour based questions. Hints and tips such as: Your behaviours can be based on situations from work, volunteering or home; match your situation to the behaviour requested and how to use your 250-word limit.  

Defence Medical Services - YouTube 

This vacancy is part of the A Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative, Making the Civil Service a Great Place to Work for Veterans - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) 

Strategic Command is going through a significant transformation programme which aims to improve the way the Command conducts its business and delivers for Defence and the nation. As a consequence of this, all posts within Strategic Command Headquarters and in time the wider organisation, are/will be subject to review and potential changes as we continuously improve across the period of the transformation programme. These changes may be minor or could be more substantive and will generate new opportunities.  Throughout, the Command’s transformation programme is committed to following the MOD’s framework on managing and supporting people through the change process and places an emphasis on early and open consultation and engagement with the Command’s personnel and Trade Unions. 

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.