Information Governance Certificate for Government Departments, NDPBs and Executive Agencies
Introduction
Our six month courses commence in January, March and October 2010. The course is for all information governance and information assurance professionals including:
- Information Governance Managers and Leads
- Caldicott Guardians, Personal Data Guardians and Data Guardians working in this area or supporting their work
- Freedom of Information and Data Protection Leads
- Informatics Managers
- Information Asset Owners and Assistants
- Others who work in the area of Information Governance
The aim is to assist practitioners in achieving excellence in this area, by developing knowledge, skills and learning approaches, and by creating a network of practitioners who can continue to provide support and learning to each other after the course has concluded.
Approach and Delivery
The course utilises a number of approaches:
- Meetings with tutors
- E-based learning with dedicated web site access
- Telephone tutorials with tutor and tutorial group
- CD ROMs
- E-mail and telephone support
- Interactive e-based learning
- Network development
Course Objectives
There are a number of new initiatives in the public sector, as well as existing legal requirements, including:
- Information Governance Frameworks and Toolkits
- Mandatory information governance measures
- Proposed new laws
- Existing law and guidance
- Information security and risk management approaches
- Records Management Codes and Guidelines
- Codes of Confidentiality
- Information Sharing Protocols
- And many others
The objectives of the Course:
- To provide the knowledge and understanding required for those taking forward information governance in the public sector, including those factors above
- To assist practitioners in the successful implementation of information governance
- To identify the organisation-wide requirements in respect of successful implementation
- To ensure that participants are equipped with the necessary tools to use in the implementation of information governance
Assessment
Course members are continually assessed:
- The course tutors will continually assess the contribution made by course members to tutorials, seminars and interactive e-learning
- There is an assignment for each module which is assessed and which has to be completed in order to attain the certificate
- The course has to be completed in full in order to attain the certificate
Course members will receive assistance and support from tutors throughout the course in order to facilitate the required standard.
ODL QC New Provider Status
We have New Provider Status for our open and distance learning courses with ODL QC. This demonstrates our continued pledge to provide high quality training, for our open courses, one to one coaching and bespoke solutions. We look forward to working with ODL QC to achieve full accreditation.
Return on Investment
At then end of the course delegates will:
- Have developed knowledge, skills and learning approaches to enable them to implement information governance successfully in their organisation.
- Have an excellent understanding of the information governance framework
- Have attained the certificate
- Become a part of a supportive network of information governance practitioners
Certificate Programme
Our course tutors and contributors:
Course Director - Dilys Jones BM FRCPsych DRCOG MBA originally trained as a medical doctor, specialising in forensic psychiatry. She worked as an NHS Consultant, with a subsequent career in management as a Medical Director and Clinical Strategy Director, service and policy development, personal and organisational development. She has worked in the Department of Health and the Home Office as a Senior Policy Adviser. She was a member of the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Group on the Implementation of Freedom of Information and a member of, and consultant to, the NHS FOI Project Board. She is co-editor of the manual for implementing freedom of information for the public sector, and the co-author of ‘Notes for Caldicott Guardians and Information Governance Professionals’. She is the Director of Learning and Consultancy at Dilys Jones Associates Ltd.
Peter Wilson BSc, Cert.Inf, ISEB-FOI Peter is Information Governance Manager for Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, a post he has held since 2002 when the Trust was formed through merger. Previously IM&T Manager at Weston Park Hospital in Sheffield, arriving there in 2000 after a variety of mainly IT and Internal Communications management based roles within the Facilities Directorate of Barts and the London NHS Trust whom he joined in 1994.
Peter has worked in both the private and public sector with experience in new towns, water authorities, local government, the civil service as well as the NHS. A varied work background covers civil engineering, IM&T, corporate graphics, cartography, print and exhibition design: the current day job covers all aspects of the Information Governance remit, including major aspects of the Caldicott Guardian role.
With information systems based degree supplemented by qualifications in informatics, health service management and an ISEB in FOI, Peter chairs a national FOI/IG group and is currently a member of the Information Commissioner’s panel reviewing the NHS model publication scheme.
Nicola Gould BA (Hons) ISEB (Data Protection & Information Security Principles) iLM Diploma in Management - Nicola is an independent expert and consultant in Information Governance with extensive experience in all areas of Information Governance. Nicola has worked in Information Governance since 2001, working in the public and independent sectors.
Nicola worked as the Information Governance Manager for Barts and The London NHS Trust (2004 – 2007), one of the largest acute teaching NHS Trusts in the UK. Whilst working in London, Nicola chaired the London Information Governance Forum and the East London Information Sharing Protocol Committee.
Nicola has also worked for BT liaising with London Acute Trusts to prepare and scope a Care Record Service deployment; working with the Trusts to prepare its Business Case, Data Migration strategy, system/infrastructure gap analysis. More recently, Nicola has taken up the role of an IG Manager for an Acute Foundation Trust.
James Paterson BA PhD is a freelance consultant specialising in information governance and records management. Until 2006 he was Records and Information Rights Manager at the Countryside Agency (a non-departmental public body sponsored by Defra), leading the Agency's work on Freedom of Information, Data Protection and Records Management. In 2006-07 he worked as a specialist in records and information governance for the newly established agency Natural England. James is based in Gloucestershire and in his spare time he is carrying out research for a planned book on the neo-classical sculptor and illustrator John Flaxman.
Modules
All modules include practical cases and scenarios, based on real situations arising in the public sector.
Confidentiality, Data Protection and Human Rights:
- Codes of Practice
- Professional Codes of Confidentiality
- Common Law Confidentiality
- The Data Protection Act 1998
- The Data Guardian, Caldicott Guardian and Personal Data Guardian
- The Human Rights Act 1998
- Privacy and Privacy Impact Assessments
- Use of Patient Information
- Statutory Disclosures
Access to Information Law:
- The Freedom of Information Act 2000
- The interface between the Freedom of Information Act and the Data Protection Act 1998
- The Environmental Information Regulations 2004
- Other
Information Governance:
- Information Governance Management and Strategy
- Information Quality
- Information Security
- Information-sharing protocols
Records Management:
- Electronic Records Management
- Records Codes of Practice
- Retention Schedules
- Paper Records
- National Archives
Education and Awareness Raising
- Useful resources
- Presentational and influencing skills
- Training approaches
- Coaching approaches
Strategic and Organisation Issues
- Information Governance Team Member
- Key issues for establishing and implementing a strategic role
- Relationship to corporate governance
- Performance management and Audit
To request a detailed programme, business case and booking form please contact Louise Wilder