Senior Information Governance & Records Management Lead – Healthcare

Lead the strategic remediation of a large digital records backlog, providing senior information and records management expertise and clear direction to programme and executive stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy, governance and delivery approach for digital records remediation.

• Act as the senior SME across information and records management.

• Establish clear approaches to retention, remediation, archiving and defensible deletion.

• Advise SRO and executive-level forums on risks, options and key decisions.

• Translate complex records-management issues into practical recommendations.

• Work across technical, operational, legal and governance teams to ensure delivery is achievable.

• Provide oversight of risks, dependencies, progress and remediation priorities.

• Help establish sustainable controls to prevent future records backlogs.

Essential experience

• Senior experience leading digital records remediation, legacy records clean-up or information governance programmes.

• Strong expertise in information and records management.

• Experience in government, healthcare or another regulated public-sector environment.

• Credibility operating with SROs, directors and executive-level forums.

• Experience balancing governance, risk, technical constraints and operational delivery.

• Strong experience shaping strategy and making complex issues decision-ready.

Desirable experience

• Healthcare or health-agency experience.

• Experience with EDRMS, SharePoint or Microsoft 365 records environments.

• Experience managing large, complex digital records estates.

• Active SC clearance, or eligibility to obtain it.