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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # NMC Cyber Incident Management Lead - **Company:** Police Digital Service - **Location:** Wigan, UK (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** £70,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Cyber Security, Information Security Management, Microsoft Office, Cybercrime - **Published:** June 17, 2026 - **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=7adab5dffb951153 ## About the Role Do you have a valid Nursing and Midwifery Council Registration license?, Do you have experience in Microsoft Office?, * Experience in a people manager role working in a commercial environment, with a history in incident management lifecycle. * Experience of taking the responsibility for the performance of a team. * Experience working in a security environment. * Experience of senior stakeholder management and influencing skills dealing with complex issues. * Experience of creating and maintaining a good Incident Management culture within an operational environment. * Willingness to engage in various proactive and strategic activities outside of incident periods to ensure readiness and continuous improvement of the incident management lifecycle. * Genuine enthusiasm and drive to work within Cyber Security, and drive improvement within the team. * Motivated and ambitious to work on your own initiative without needed direction. * Proven track record of innovation and evolving services. * Ability to multi-task, prioritise, and deal with management of time effectively, both as an individual and your team. * Excellent interpersonal skills and professional demeanour. * Excellent verbal and written communication skills. * Proficient in Microsoft Office Applications. * Ability to convey technical speak into plain English. Desirable * Experience working in a fast-paced operational security environment. * Experience in internal and external stakeholder management and engagement. * Excellent written and verbal communication skills. * Relevant Security or Incident Management qualification. ## Description * Responsible for the co-ordination and effective reporting of cyber security incidents within the NMC, along with any issues concerning quality and delivery of the service. * You will have line management responsibility for the team of Cyber Incident Leads. * Accountable for the evolution and development of the Incident Management Service with regards to continuously improving People, Processes and Technology. * Responsible for the progression of key service deliverables, Incident Response Planning, Cyber Incident Exercising and driving collaboration with wider NMC engagements where required. * Ownership for creating, developing and facilitating cyber incident exercises for customers. * Allocate resources to deliver incident coaching and cyber incident exercising to customers and improve their incident response capabilities. * Engage senior internal and external stakeholders to represent and deliver the performance and value of the Incident Lead Team via written reports, and informal / formal presentations. * Drive collaboration with the wider NMC teams and external customer/partners where necessary. * Responsible for ensuring Post Incident Reviews are scheduled and conducted with agreed timeframes. * Responsible for ensuring on-call rotations are in place and be available to support if required. * Responsible for the quality and standard of all NMC Incident Management outputs. * You will be expected to deputise at the NMC Senior Leadership Team level for the Cyber Detect and Response Manager as required. 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