Roles and skills Digital health care job roles reference
Illustrative Reference profiles for a generic digital health care organization, not official job descriptions. About this reference.

Information governance

3 roles. The UK GDaD PCF has no matching family, so this reference defines these roles.

Health records officer

Health records staff make sure that patient and corporate records are created, stored, tracked, retrieved, and disposed of correctly, whether they are on paper or in digital systems. They keep records available for care, protect them from loss and unauthorised access, and support the move from paper to digital records.

  1. Band 2 Records assistant
  2. Band 3 Records officer
  3. Band 4 Senior records officer
  4. Band 5 Health records manager

Information governance officer

Information governance staff help the organization handle personal and health information lawfully, securely, and ethically. They advise teams on data protection and confidentiality, handle information rights requests, support data protection impact assessments, manage data breaches, and gather the evidence that shows the organization meets information governance standards.

  1. Band 4 Information governance officer
  2. Band 5 Senior information governance officer
  3. Band 6 Information governance lead
  4. Band 7 Information governance manager
  5. Band 8a Head of information governance

Data protection officer

The data protection officer (DPO) independently monitors the organization's compliance with data protection law, advises on its duties, and is the contact point for the regulator and for people whose data it holds. In a digital health care organization, the DPO gives expert advice on the lawful, fair, and transparent use of health data in products, analytics, research, and data sharing.

  1. Band 8a Deputy data protection officer
  2. Band 8b Data protection officer
  3. Band 8c Senior data protection officer