Head of Legal and Information Governance
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Our Story
At Radar Healthcare, we’re dedicated to improving patient safety by bringing together the expertise of healthcare professionals and the power of intuitive software. Our innovative platform has been developed in partnership with industry experts to ensure organisations always meet regulatory standards – making it easier than ever for healthcare providers to deliver top-quality care to their patients.
We’re on a mission to become a world-leading health-tech pioneer, and we know that we can only achieve this with the help of talented individuals like you. If you’re passionate about improving healthcare outcomes and want to work in a team of like-minded individuals, we invite you to join us on our journey.
So if you’re up for an exciting challenge and want to be part of a team that’s making a real impact, we’d love to hear from you!
Our Values
At Radar Healthcare, we are all proud of our values-led, open, supportive and inclusive culture. It's just as important that anyone joining our friendly team share the same values as us, to ensure we're all on the same page from day one, so we're looking for people who feel aligned to the following:
🤝🏽 Customer focused with a partnership approach
📖 Open, honest and transparent
🧠 Innovative
🫶🏼 Ethical, trustworthy and caring
Our People & Culture
At Radar Healthcare, we understand and celebrate the fact that our people are our best assets! We are proud to showcase our diverse and passionate talent that encapsulates our vision, purpose and values in our shared mission of innovation in healthcare. We’re an ambitious but caring team, and so supporting our colleagues and partners is always a top priority. Not to mention, we’re not all work and no play – we love getting together to celebrate our achievements together in various settings, whether it be our winter and summer socials, our people-led full company days, team get togethers or simply just interacting and supporting one another over coffee breaks either remotely or in person at our amazing Leeds office.
We're also super proud to be Great Place to Work-Certified, based on outstanding feedback directly from our team earlier this year, with 91% of the team agreeing that they "would strongly endorse my company to friends and family as a great place to work" 🫶🏼
The Opportunity
Radar Healthcare's new ⭐Head of Legal and Information Governance⭐
At Radar Healthcare, we are dedicated to maintaining the highest standards of legal and governance compliance across our business. As our Head of Legal and Information Governance, you’ll be the driving force in fostering a culture of diligence and consistency, inspiring employees to integrate quality and compliance into their daily work. This pivotal role involves taking ownership of our compliance systems, ensuring we meet regulatory standards, and maintaining essential certifications and accreditations.
If you’re passionate about excellence in governance and leading by example, we’d love to hear from you!
What you’ll be doing to make a difference:
- Advising the Executive Board on Legal, IM, IS, and IG strategies across all our operating territories.
- Provide legal advice on a wide range of matters including corporate governance, fundraising (debt and equity), commercial contracts, intellectual property, data privacy, and regulatory compliance.
- Be an active participant in the Senior Management Team ensuring all departments always have legal and Information governance as a top priority.
- Leading and delivering our Legal, IM, IS, and IG strategies and maintaining ongoing oversight of this across the business.
- Manage and mitigate legal risks associated with new product launches and business initiatives.
- Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements and partnerships.
- Embedding NIST and HIPAA compliance throughout the organisation.
- Managing our certified ISO27001 and ISO9001 management system.
- Managing our compliance with the NHS DSPT, SCAL and DTAC.
- Horizon scanning compliance and regulatory requirements to ensure our short, medium, and long-term business strategy is met.
- Effectively line manage, lead and mentor the Information Security & Quality Officer.
- Act as spokesperson and subject matter expert for the company in relevant discussions with customers, partners and open forums etc.
- Working with external parties such as customers, regulatory bodies, partners, and suppliers.
- Provide expert legal advice on matters related to data protection, privacy laws, and other regulatory requirements affecting the Health Tech sector.
- Develop, implement, and maintain comprehensive information governance policies to ensure legal compliance across all operations.
- Liaise with external legal advisors as necessary to manage complex legal issues or disputes.
Your journey so far...
- Understanding of the Regulatory landscape for business, preferably (but not essentially) within the Health Tech industry.
- Experience building the compliance framework for a fast-moving tech business.
- Experience in a legal role within a private equity backed business.
- Sound understanding of all things GDPR.
- Sound knowledge of ISO standards.
- Ability to understand and develop legal frameworks.
- Ability to effectively manage and lead direct reports, championing development and growth.
- Holds one of the following industry-relevant certifications: CIPP-E, CIPP-US, CISM, Security+, CISSP.
- Holds GDPR Practitioner certification.
- Holds relevant legal certifications.
Even better if you…
- Have experience in successfully implementing NIST in a previous role.
- Have experience in previously implementing and managing an integrated ISO27001 and ISO9001 management system.
- Have experience in US and Middle East territories.
- Possess knowledge and understanding of the NIST standard.
- Are a certified NIST practitioner.
- Are certified to CIPP/E and CIPM.
The Bigger Picture
Whilst we value professional experiences and qualifications, we’re committed to maintaining a culture of growth and development here at Radar Healthcare. We take into account each candidates demonstrable skillset, drive and ethos so even if you don’t feel 100% qualified for the role – we welcome you to connect with us. We’d love to hear from passionate candidates from all backgrounds that align themselves with our company values and are excited to make a difference in healthcare!
What we offer in return...
💰 A competitive salary, dependent on experience
💜 Values-led culture - we’re extremely proud of our culture. Learn more about what makes it special here
📖 Learning & development budget of £1,000 each year to drive your own professional development
🏢 Flexible working – We believe in empowering our team to work in a way that suits them best. Whether you’re an early bird or prefer working from home most of the time, we trust you to get the job done around our core hours.
🏝️ 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays) continually increasing with service, plus the option to buy up to a week to suit whatever exotic adventures or big life events you have planned for the year ahead
🎂 Birthdays off and a surprise through the letterbox - we love to make a song and dance about every year around the sun!
🤝🏽 Charity leave – giving back is important to us, so we empower all our team members to support charity every year on company time
🧠 Mental healthcare - Face to face counselling support, an app, and an Employee Assistance Program and many colleagues trained in mental health first aid
👩🏾⚕️ Healthcare - Cover with Medicash, you get money back when you spend on health appointments e.g. physio, dental, optician, prescriptions, private GP + more
💛 Life cover – a pay-out of 3x your salary to support your beneficiaries if the worst happened
💐 Compassionate leave of up to 5 days time off if you lose a loved one
🤕 Paid sick leave - Enhanced sick pay after 6 months (increasing with service)
🍼 Enhanced family leave - Primary caregivers (maternity/adoption); 16 weeks full pay, 10 weeks half pay & secondary caregivers (paternity); 2 weeks full pay and another 2 weeks full pay to take in your new arrivals first year of life (once you have been with us for 1 year)
💵 Pension - We’re invested in your future, we contribute 3% of your salary to your pension pot, helping you save up for those golden years!
💻 Technology – Rest assured, we'll have a laptop all set up and ready for you on your first day. Additionally, in your first week, we’ll conduct a WFH risk assessment to ensure you have everything you need, including a second screen, keyboard, mouse, and any other goodies!
🐶 Dog friendly office
🎈 Socials – we get together as a full company at least four times per year, plus at least once a quarter in individual teams, too. Not including all the fun activities being planned by our newly formed social committee.
Accessibility
If you require any special considerations or adjustments to our application and interviewing process, please don't hesitate to let us know. We understand and celebrate the fact that every person that we connect with is different and therefore requires different starting points on their journey with us. If you have a medical condition or disability we are committed to ensuring that our process is inclusive and accessible for all, let us know how we can best support you.
Connect with us!
We'd love to hear from you! If this role isn't quite right for you but you feel like Radar Healthcare could be, click the Connect button on our careers site and we'll keep you in the loop of new opportunities as they arise. You can also find out more about our mission, values and culture by checking out our various channels:
🎧 Listen to Our What the HealthTech podcast
🔗 Connect with us on Linkedin
📱 Check out our social media channels including our Instagram takeovers and join us on a day in the life at Radar Healthcare! Get an inside look at our innovative and friendly culture as we share our stories with you.
💚 Discover why Radar Healthcare is a fantastic place to work from our very own people on Glassdoor!
Connect with us on our journey and get to know the people who make us shine!
- Say hello 👋
- Compliance
- Role
- Head of Legal and Information Governance
- Locations
- Leeds
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
Leeds
Our Perks & Benefits
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🏄🏻♀️ 25 days annual leave
We value work-life balance and making sure our team get more time with family and friends. Therefore we offer everybody 25 days paid holiday, in addition to bank holidays.
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🕐 Flexible working hours and hybrid working
We value work-life balance highly, therefore we have flexible working hours and hybrid working environment.
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🕺 Regular social & team events
We get together regularly to celebrate our successes as a team.
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🚴🏽💻Cycle & tech scheme
Our cycle and tech schemes support with the purchase of a bike to get to work, or that new piece of tech you've had your eye on. Interest free and deducted from salary, saving you money in the long run.
Our Values & Culture
Values and culture are what makes Radar Healthcare the company you see today, and we're extremely proud of the staff here who shape that culture. “Open”, “honest”, and “inspiring” are just a few words to describe the people at Radar Healthcare.
We're an ambitious but caring team with a shared mission, and so supporting our colleagues and partners is always top priority. We welcome anyone who feels aligned with these values to join our journey in making healthcare safer.
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