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# Information Security & Risk Specialist (12-month FTC) at Accurx

- **Company:** Accurx
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Compensation:** £50k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/accurx/9cbf2bed-cfbe-4246-8d1f-ef1253d02795

## Job description

💬 Accurx is solving healthcare productivity for the NHS. For decades, the NHS has struggled with fragmented systems that make simple tasks feel impossible. At Accurx, we’re changing that by building a single, system-wide platform that helps every patient get gold-standard, efficient, and joined-up care. What started as a way for GPs to text a patient has now evolved into an all-in-one digital toolkit used by 98% of GP practices. Our platform now powers [Total Triage](https://www.accurx.com/primary-care) to manage patient demand, and [Self-Book,](https://www.accurx.com/booking) which lets patients schedule their own appointments in seconds. We’ve automated routine care with [Patient Questionnaires](https://www.accurx.com/questionnaires) for long-term conditions, while [Accumail](https://www.accurx.com/accumail) finally allows staff-to-staff communication to happen instantly across different care settings. We’re now pushing the boundaries of the consultation itself with [Accurx Scribe](https://www.accurx.com/scribe), our AI-powered note-taker that drafts medical notes in real-time. We’re not just shipping features. We’re giving clinicians their time back and ensuring every patient journey is as smooth as it should be.

How this role sits within the function

- Reports to: Senior Information Security Officer
- Function: Privacy & Information Security
- Contract type: Twelve-month fixed-term contract

This role works day-to-day alongside the Senior Information Security Officer, who owns the GRC framework, ISO 27001 programme, CE+ and DSPT compliance, and the security risk register. It provides dedicated capacity to push forward priority workstreams - particularly risk management, CE+ audit readiness, and data strategy delivery.

Challenges you’ll solve...

- Own the security risk register: Facilitate risk assessment sessions with technical and non-technical stakeholders across the business, keep the register current and accurate, and prepare clear risk reporting that translates technical risk into business language.
- Drive Cyber Essentials Plus readiness: Coordinate evidence gathering across IT, Platform and Security Engineering ahead of the CE+ deep-dive audit, reviewing controls against requirements and flagging gaps with practical remediation guidance.
- Deliver our data classification programme: Work with data owners to classify information assets in line with policy, and push the access control programme forward by reviewing current access patterns and identifying gaps.
- Keep risk treatment moving: Track risk treatment actions and follow up with owners so items progress rather than stall, managing milestones and blockers across the risk, CE+, and data workstreams.
- Support the wider security programme: Contribute to ISO 27001 and DSPT activities where your work intersects, including evidence collection and control documentation, and support policy and process documentation as needed.
- Be a translator between security and the business: Communicate security requirements clearly to engineers, and help non-technical stakeholders understand risk well enough to act on it.

You should apply if...

- You have 3–5 years of hands-on experience in information security and risk management, ideally in health-tech or a regulated SaaS environment.
- You've run risk sessions, owned a risk register, and prepared risk reporting for senior stakeholders
- You've worked through a Cyber Essentials Plus audit cycle yourself
- You understand cloud infrastructure, endpoint management, identity and access controls, and network boundaries well enough to hold your own in a technical conversation - you don't need to be a developer.
- You have working knowledge of ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus, and know what "proportionate" looks like in a fast-moving product company.
- You write and communicate clearly, structuring your thinking logically so people know what's expected of them and why.
- You're comfortable working at pace and without extensive hand-holding, managing your own workload and flagging blockers early.
- You care about what Accurx does, and understand that the data we protect belongs to patients and clinicians who trust us with it.

What’s in it for me? You'll be joining an established but fast-growing Tech for Good movement, led by our [Principles](https://www.notion.so/accurx/How-we-work-Accurx-Principles-211640edee304821b4480d3f9c30e051) and our [mission](https://accurx.notion.site/Mission-and-Vision-fe9b12ff78bd4a7996682fc5c09c2d8e) to solve healthcare productivity.

- £50k salary
- [Benefits to suit you:](https://accurx.notion.site/Perks-Benefits-f1e9148b71be486791aa2c503e5d775a?pvs=74)adjust your healthcare cover, your pension or life insurance, whatever stage you’re at in life
- Flexible working: We are an office-first culture and ask that you’re in our (dog-friendly) Shoreditch office 3 days a week, with core hours of 10 am - 4 pm
- Time off: You’ll get 28 days of holiday (plus bank holidays) and up to 4 weeks to work from anywhere per year
- We have our very own Chef! Free healthy breakfasts, snacks and lunches will be provided, with the occasional sweet treat!

## About Accurx

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Accurx provides a communication platform that connects patients and healthcare professionals across the NHS, making healthcare staff happier and patients healthier.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Jacob Haddad and Laurence Bargery

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Healthcare Technology (HealthTech)
- **Target customers**: B2B, primarily the UK's National Health Service (NHS) — including GP practices, hospital trusts, and community care providers.
- **Mission**: To fix healthcare communication, making NHS professionals happier and patients healthier.

## Products & Services
- **Accurx Platform (Core)**: A unified communication platform for the NHS. It enables secure messaging, appointment booking, test results delivery, and online consultations between patients and healthcare professionals. It is used by 98% of GP practices in England and 68% of NHS trusts.
- **Accurx Scribe**: An AI-powered medical scribe built for general practice. It captures consultations, drafts clinical notes, and frees clinicians from typing.
- **Accurx Triage**: A smart triage system to help manage patient demand and route them to the right care first time.
- **Accurx Coordinate**: A platform for coordinating care across the whole health system, including hospital specialists and community care.
- **Vaccine Booking System**: A system built in four weeks during the COVID-19 pandemic that managed almost 30 million life-saving vaccinations.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of approximately $180 million (Series B).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Top-tier investors (specific names not listed in provided sources, but described as "top-tier investors"). An approved supplier to the NHS.
- **Growth Signals**: Used by 98% of GP practices in England and 68% of NHS trusts. 74% of UK adults have communicated via Accurx. Over 200,000 healthcare staff use the platform daily. 330.8 million messages were sent via the platform in 2025. The company has grown from a tiny team to around 250 people.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep NHS Integration**: An approved NHS supplier with near-universal adoption in primary care (98% of GP practices) and rapidly expanding into secondary care (68% of NHS trusts).
- **Mission-Critical Platform**: The platform is deeply embedded in the daily workflow of the NHS, handling over 200,000 messages per day and 330.8 million messages in 2025.
- **High Barriers to Entry**: Replicating the level of trust, integration, and adoption across the entire NHS is an enormous challenge for any competitor.
- **Proven Impact**: Demonstrated ability to reduce "Did Not Attend" (DNA) rates by 50% and cut 10% of patients from waiting lists, providing clear ROI for the health system.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI Deployment**: Harnessing AI to improve healthcare access and productivity, with products like the AI medical scribe and upcoming smart summaries and AI phone assistant.
- **Network Adoption**: Expanding adoption across the entire health system so that everyone involved in a patient's care can communicate with each other.
- **Care Model Innovation**: Modernising how care is delivered, including moving care out of hospitals and into patients' homes, and slashing wait times.
- **Data Security**: Ensuring patient data is kept safe while enabling access for all who need it.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven**: The company is obsessed with its mission to fix healthcare communication, offering a rare opportunity to have a massive, positive impact on society's greatest challenge.
- **Goldilocks Size**: At around 250 people, the company is small enough for individuals to make a significant mark, but established enough with top-tier investors to provide security and scale.
- **Office-First Culture**: The company emphasizes an "office-first" culture with breakfast and lunch provided, fostering collaboration and team building.
- **Close to Users**: Everyone at Accurx spends time on the frontline with users (NHS staff) to gain context and ideas.
- **Benefits**: 28 days holiday, enhanced pension scheme, meaningful share options, flexible working, electric car and cycle schemes, and access to a flexible benefits provider (Happl).
- **Diverse Team**: The team combines backgrounds from big tech, startups, the NHS, and consulting, united by the mission.

## Sources
1. [accurx.com](https://www.accurx.com/)
2. [accurx.com/careers](https://www.accurx.com/careers)
3. [accurx.com/who-we-are](https://www.accurx.com/who-we-are)
4. [accurx.com/our-story](https://www.accurx.com/our-story)
5. [uk.linkedin.com/company/accurx](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/accurx)

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