Data Protection Officer

REF/ 109804

Data Protection Officer

Fairlie House, Trident Close, Erdington, B23 5TB

£36,210.00 per annum & £1,680 car allowance

37.5 hours per week

About The Role

The purpose of the role is to act as the Group’s designated Data Protection Officer, providing advice and guidance around data protection and information governance, ensuring there are robust controls around the Group’s collection, management and processing of data, particularly personal data. The successful candidate will provide assurance to board that the Group remains compliant in our data protection obligations through effective reporting, creative training, awareness campaigns and monitoring.

Key Responsibilities:

Information Governance

• Overall management & coordination of Information Governance (IG) across the group, including developing, promoting & monitoring IG policy and procedures. Developing/embedding an Information Asset framework ensuring suitable owners are identified and engaged, monitoring IG training/knowledge, ensuring systems and processes adhere to IG best practice, awareness of proposed changes to legislation, best practice & regulatory requirements particularly in the Housing & Care sector.
  
  

Data Protection

• Liaising with the Information Commissioners Office on Data Protection matters on behalf of the group, overall management of data requests in line with legislation, developing & monitoring Data Protection policy and procedures, developing a Data Protection learning programme, an annual Data Protection awareness campaign and maintaining knowledge around Data Protection legislation and proposed developments.
  
  

Business Development & Performance Management

• Acting as an ambassador for Business Improvement and change across the Group, promoting the benefits of both planned and underway change, working with the Insight & Innovation team to design, implement and monitor suitable Key Performance Indicators to monitor Group performance against the requirements of relevant Data Protection legislation, benchmarking against suitable peers within sector, and providing managers and leaders with the support, knowledge and tools to effectively identify and resolve performance issues around IG & Data Protection within their areas,
  
  

The benefits;

• 34 days annual leave, plus the option to purchase up to 5 additional days
• Birthday leave
• New Home leave
• Life assurance (3 x salary)
• Employee Assistance programme
• Employee Wellbeing programme
  
  

Experience

About You

• Previous experience as a Data Protection practitioner, able to demonstrate your growth in challenging roles
• Excellent knowledge of Data Protection law and a deep understanding of an organisation’s obligations with regards personal data and a subject’s right to access
• Experience in providing practical advice to a wide range of end users on their data protection responsibilities
• Practical experience of designing and delivering engaging and high-quality training and creative awareness campaigns
• Experienced in working in a team to develop policies & procedures that provide assurance around good data governance
  
  

Knowledge

• A relevant degree or a professional qualification in Data Protection Management or Information Governance (IAPP CIPM, CIPT etc) or suitable experience
• Excellent knowledge of Data Protection and legislation, and IG best practice
• Awareness of developments within Data Protection, IG and the wider social housing and care sectors
  
  

Skills

• Exceptional communication skills including verbal, non-verbal and written.
• Great motivator of people with the ability to influence and lead change effectively
• Supportive and collaborative problem solver, using innovative approaches to overcome challenge
• Emotionally intelligent with the ability to build and maintain relationships across a diverse, geographically dispersed workforce
  
  

Trident Group has over 60 years’ experience of delivering homes, services and innovation for up to 8,000 people in over 3,600 homes in some of the most disadvantaged communities in the Midlands. The Group employs more than 750 staff, works with over 150 volunteers and provides training places and apprenticeships for many more. The Group has an annual turnover of more than £37m and owns assets close than £190m.

The Group consists of;

• Trident Housing, which provides landlord services for the Group in respect of housing management and maintenance
• Trident Reach, which is a registered care and support charity delivering trauma informed care and support services. These services include supporting people within registered care, domiciliary care, people with learning difficulties, mental health needs, young people at risk, older people, BME groups, people at risk of being homeless, those seeking employability, education and training opportunities and those fleeing domestic abuse.
  
  

Our Purpose:

Putting people and communities at the heart of our services and the safe homes we provide.

To deliver against our purpose we will be:

• Trustworthy
• Collaborative
• Accountable
• People Focused
• Caring in all we do
  
  

As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we have committed to:

• ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
• communicating and promoting vacancies
• offering an interview to disabled people
• anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
• supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work
• at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people
  
  

Applying

All applications must be accompanied with a current CV which will be used to assess your suitability for the role.

All applicants must provide their right to work documentation at interview stage, such as a valid passport which will be verified to check your eligibility to work and live in the UK.

Relevant roles will be subject to a successful disclosure at an appropriate level from Disclosure and barring service (DBS).