Data Protection Officer

Overview of the role

We are looking for a Data Protection Coordinator to join our legal team at Bestway Healthcare!

Reporting to the Data Protection Officer, you'll support the day-to-day administration and delivery of key compliance activities required under UK data protection legislation.

As part of a business employing over 6500 colleagues across both retail and wholesale healthcare operations, you'll play an important role in helping ensure personal data is handled responsibly, compliantly and in line with regulatory requirements. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with strong administrative skills and experience in data protection, compliance or information governance to develop their career within a large and diverse healthcare organisation.

Main Responsibility

• Handle requests made under Data Protection legislation (UK General Data Protection Regulation and Data Protection Act 2018).
• Provide first-line advice and guidance to colleagues on routine data protection matters, escalating complex issues to the Data Protection Officer.
• Maintain data protection records, personal data inventories, registers and governance documentation.
• Support investigations into data incidents and breaches.
• Liaise with colleagues across the organisation to identify, retrieve, and collate information for disclosure in subject access requests.
• Support DPO with completion of data protection impact assessments and ongoing review of these.
• Support audit of suppliers and internal functions on their compliance with data protection laws.
• Provide administrative support as required, including arranging and attending meetings, taking minutes, and circulating agendas and papers.
• Support administration of data protection training completion within the business.
• Maintain metrics and management reporting in relation to data protection across the business.
• Ad-hoc project work required to maintain legal compliance.

The Ideal Candidate

• Experience in a previous data protection role is essential, within a healthcare or regulated environment would be preferred.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Excellent working knowledge of Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook.
• Experience producing reports and governance documentation.
• Ability to work independently and manage competing priorities.
• Proactive work ethic, attention to detail and a diligent approach to compliance matters.
• Experience coordinating multiple workstreams and managing deadlines.
• Experience handling confidential and sensitive information.

Bestway Healthcare are proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer. If you have any specific requirements, we'll do everything we can to support you. Whether it is to find a pharmacy that is accessible, or if it is a part time position you are looking for, we can help find the role that is right for you. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process, we will be happy to accommodate you.

Please be aware that due to the high number of applications we receive it may not be possible for us to provide an outcome to all applicants. If you are not contacted within 28 days of your submission unfortunately you will have been unsuccessful.

About the Company

For over 70 years, we’ve been looking after the health and wellbeing of communities across the UK. Well Pharmacy (part of Bestway Healthcare) is the second largest pharmacy chain in the UK with c.760 pharmacies and a team of around 7,000 colleagues based across our Community Pharmacies, Online Pharmacy, Healthcare Services Centre, Community Drivers, Bestway Medhub & Wardles team and our Support Centre team.

Our mission is to be here for the wellbeing of our patients and customers, to provide the best community pharmacy experience in the UK for everyone, for our patients, our customers, our people, and our NHS.

The pharmacy of the future will look very different from the one we know today. It will play a huge role in transforming primary healthcare and we will play a central role in bringing it to life.

We will use our clinical expertise and technological ambition to take advantage of the potential this future has to offer us. Making medicines, advice, services and care available in the places and spaces that people need and want it most.

We want to be a great business. To be recognised as delivering a community pharmacy experience that is the best there is. To do this we want our teams to feel proud about the positive impact they make, feel valued as part of a close-knit and expert community, and feel confident in their role in a business that is stable, innovative, and caring.

‘Together we make a difference’

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