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Information Security & Risk Officer

Accurx
United Kingdom
HybridCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Strong fit for information security professionals with risk management experience who can translate technical concepts into business language and work in a regulated SaaS environment.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 3–5 years of risk register ownership and audit readiness experience in healthcare or regulated SaaS
    — “You have 3–5 years of hands-on experience in information security and risk management, ideally in health-tech or a regulated SaaS environment.”
  • Individuals who can bridge the gap between security and business stakeholders through clear communication
    — “Be a translator between security and the business: Communicate security requirements clearly to engineers, and help non-technical stakeholders understand risk well enough to act on it.”
  • Professionals familiar with Cyber Essentials Plus and ISO 27001 compliance frameworks
    — “You have working knowledge of ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus, and know what 'proportionate' looks like in a fast-moving product company.”

Things to consider

  • Requires in-office presence in London for three days per week with core hours from 10 am to 4 pm
    — “We are an office-first culture and ask that you’re in our (dog-friendly) Shoreditch office 3 days a week, with core hours of 10 am - 4 pm”
  • Fixed-term contract may be a consideration for those seeking long-term stability
    — “Contract type: Twelve-month fixed-term contract”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience with risk assessment sessions and senior stakeholder reporting
    — “You've run risk sessions, owned a risk register, and prepared risk reporting for senior stakeholders”
  • Demonstrate familiarity with cloud infrastructure and identity/access controls
    — “You understand cloud infrastructure, endpoint management, identity and access controls, and network boundaries well enough to hold your own in a technical conversation”
  • Emphasize ability to manage risk treatment actions and flag blockers early
    — “Keep risk treatment moving: Track risk treatment actions and follow up with owners so items progress rather than stall, managing milestones and blockers across the risk, CE+, and data workstreams.”
  • Showcase experience with data classification and access control programs
    — “Deliver our data classification programme: Work with data owners to classify information assets in line with policy, and push the access control programme forward by reviewing current access patterns and identifying gaps.”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • prepared risk reporting
  • coordinated evidence gathering
Typical background
3-5 years of hands-on experience in information security and risk management

Skills & requirements

Required

Information SecurityRisk ManagementCyber Essentials Plus ReadinessData Classification

Preferred

Health-tech Experience

Stack & domain

Information SecurityRisk ManagementCyber EssentialsCommunicationTeamworkProblem SolvingHealthcareIT

About the role

Original posting from Accurx via Ashby

💬 ACCURX IS SOLVING HEALTHCARE PRODUCTIVITY FOR THE NHS.

For decades, the NHS has struggled with fragmented systems that make simple tasks feel impossible. At Accurx, we’re changing that by building a single, system-wide platform that helps every patient get gold-standard, efficient, and joined-up care.

What started as a way for GPs to text a patient has now evolved into an all-in-one digital toolkit used by 98% of GP practices.

Our platform now powers Total Triage https://www.accurx.com/primary-care to manage patient demand, and Self-Book, https://www.accurx.com/booking which lets patients schedule their own appointments in seconds. We’ve automated routine care with Patient Questionnaires https://www.accurx.com/questionnaires for long-term conditions, while Accumail https://www.accurx.com/accumail finally allows staff-to-staff communication to happen instantly across different care settings. We’re now pushing the boundaries of the consultation itself with Accurx Scribe https://www.accurx.com/scribe, our AI-powered note-taker that drafts medical notes in real-time.

We’re not just shipping features. We’re giving clinicians their time back and ensuring every patient journey is as smooth as it should be.

THE ROLE

It's a hands-on, delivery-focused role, and you'll make an impact from the start in risk management, security advisory, customer and tender responses, audit readiness and our data strategy.

This isn't a security engineering role. You won't configure firewalls or run vulnerability scans. Instead, you'll understand our technical environment well enough to spot risks and gaps, then recommend best practices for Engineering, DevOps and IT to put in place. A background in compliance management alone won't be enough for this role.

You'll report to our Senior Information Security Officer, who owns our GRC framework, ISO 27001 programme, CE/CE+ & DSPT compliance, and the security risk register. You'll help deliver across all of it.

CHALLENGES YOU’LL SOLVE...

  • Own risk management: run risk sessions across the business, keep the risk register current, write clear risk reports and chase treatment actions to completion
  • Advise the business: be the security voice with Engineering, DevOps, IT and Product, and a first point of contact for security questions from every team
  • Handle customers, tenders and suppliers: answer security questionnaires and tenders accurately, and assess suppliers before we approve them
  • Keep us audit-ready: gather evidence all year round for Cyber Essentials Plus, DSPT and ISO 27001, and flag control gaps with practical fixes
  • Deliver our data strategy: drive the data classification and access control programmes forward with data owners

YOU SHOULD APPLY IF...

  • You have hands-on infosec and risk experience: ideally in health-tech, regulated SaaS or software development. You've run risk sessions, managed a risk register and reported on risk to senior stakeholders.
  • You possess technical depth to hold your own: You understand authentication vs authorisation, least privilege, IAM, network segmentation and firewalls, patch and vulnerability management, endpoint protection and cloud infrastructure.
  • You understand frameworks: ISO 27001, DSPT, NIST and Cyber Essentials Plus, and a sense of what proportionate looks like in a fast-moving product company.
  • You work fast and independently: You manage your own workload, flag blockers early and can move between a tender, a questionnaire and an engineering conversation in the same day.
  • You care about healthcare: and know the data we protect belongs to patients and clinicians.

Nice to have: enterprise risk management experience, and having been through a CE+ audit cycle.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

You’ll join a high-performing team on a mission to solve healthcare productivity, building a platform used by around 300k NHS staff every week, supporting the care of over 50 million NHS patients every year. We set a high bar, move fast, and give people the ownership and support to do the best work of their careers

  • £65,000 - £75,000 salary, plus a discretionary recognition bonus for exceptional performance and impact, nominated by managers and awarded by our leadership team
  • Equity: £15,000 in equal share options, so you share in the value you help create
  • Benefits to suit you: adjust your healthcare cover, your pension or life insurance, whatever stage you’re at in life
  • Built for collaboration: We are an office-first culture and ask that you’re in our (dog-friendly) Shoreditch office for a minimum of 3 days a week
  • Close to our users: Regular hackathons, plus dedicated time to visit GP practices and other healthcare settings to see first-hand how our products are used
  • Time off: You’ll get 28 days of holiday (plus bank holidays) and up to 4 weeks to work from anywhere per year
  • Support at home: We offer enhanced parental leave, fertility support and parental loss support
  • We have our very own chefs: Free healthy breakfasts, snacks and lunches, plus a weekly sweet treat

Source: Accurx careers (Ashby)

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