# Cyber Security Officer (Insider Risk) > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for NHS England. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/cyber-security-officer-insider-risk/b88a0b87-9702-4b6a-a0de-d4ca6fe32f2c - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/cyber-security-officer-insider-risk/b88a0b87-9702-4b6a-a0de-d4ca6fe32f2c.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** NHS England - **Location:** Wellington Place - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Administrative and IT - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £43954.90 to £52928.70 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Job share, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-11-01T23:59:59.999Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-16T08:36:12.091Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8364779 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8364779?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.england.nhs.uk/ ## Job Content ### Job overview Cyber Operations purpose is to support safe care and build public trust by building NHS England’s cyber resilience and enabling the wider health system to be cyber resilient, supporting Transformation Directorate’s purpose of delivering the best care and outcomes for the NHS. The Cyber Operations sub-directorate consists of four operational areas: - Cyber Security Operations Unit (CSOU & SIO) - Cyber Delivery Unit (CDU) - Cyber Improvement Programme - Chief Information Security Office Function (CISO) The Cyber Security Officer Insider Risk role sits within the CISO function in the Insider Risk team. This team is responsible for monitoring the insider threat and carrying out mitigating activities such as staff vetting, training and awareness and providing secure communications. The Security Officer role is a dynamic role that will provide support to senior colleagues in all areas of the insider risk team. This will involve working with the team and stakeholders on the security measures that will help protect NHS England from security breaches and attacks on its computer networks and systems. Our ideal candidate is a team player with tenacity and enthusiasm to keep our data safe. You will be able to work proactively under pressure to deliver against individual and team targets, whilst maintaining a clear focus on quality customer service and a razor-sharp attention to detail. ### Main duties of the job The main duties of the Security Officer would be to support each of the Security Leads in the Insider Risk team and assist them in; monitoring carrying out investigations of insider risk activity, undertaking pre-employment checks of staff and contractors and promoting education and awareness of insider risk. To do this to Security Officer’s main duties would be to: - Monitor the insider risk inbox providing an initial response and advice regarding security measures, access to training and pre-employment checks, referring to the relevant senior lead where necessary - Review monitoring data to interpret user behaviour to identify potential threats and raise investigations - Provide support to senior security leads during investigations of incidents of insider risk - Support insider risk stakeholder group providing support to the group to allow visibility of insider threats and the mitigations in place - Engage with managers, Data Protection Officer, investigations, and policy teams regarding insider risk investigations - Manage the communications with the Security Champions community and co-ordinating events and meetings ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information about the role and responsibilities. Please ensure your supporting statement includes demonstratable evidence and specific examples on how you meet the criteria for each of the key skills specified. This will be used in both the shortlisting and interview processes Important: Please be aware there are residency requirements you need to meet: All NHS England Cyber Security personnel must hold Security Clearance level as a minimum. To meet National Security Vetting requirements, SC clearances require 5 years continuous UK residency. In certain cases, this can be reduced to three years continuous UK residency, with additional overseas checks for the previous two years. Candidates who were posted abroad for service with HM Government, Armed Forces or within a UK government role - will still be considered. Please make sure you meet these requirements before applying for this role. You don’t need to have SC already, however, failure to achieve the requirements for SC after offer will result in the job offer being withdrawn. For further advice please check https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels/national-security-vetting-clearance-levels#security-check-sc Please be aware that should you be successful in this position, you will be hired to the job title of Security Officer and this job title is advertised to attract the right skills needed for the role. The post of Security Officer has been awarded a Recruitment and Retention Premia (RRP) in response to current labour market conditions. In recognition of this, the role attracts an additional monthly RRP payment equal to 10% per annum. Please be aware that RRP is non-contractual and subject to review If you like what you have read and think you have the skills and experience, we need then don't delay, apply today! We get lots of applications for our roles and so we sometimes have to close our posts early. Don't miss out! ### Applicant requirements This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge **Essential** - Knowledge of IT security policies, standards, and procedures; ability to utilise a variety of administrative skill sets and technical knowledge to ensure cyber security compliance. - Knowledge of the processes, tools and techniques of information security management, ability to deploy and monitor information security systems, as well as detect, resolve and prevent violations of IT security, to protect organisational data. - Knowledge of and the ability to protect information and information systems while ensuring their confidentiality, integrity and availability. **Desirable** - Knowledge of the tools and processes for maintaining application security; ability to design and implement security programs to prevent data loss and access intrusion from web and mobile applications. - Knowledge of concepts, tools and practices of dealing with computer crime; ability to detect and prevent business crimes that involve computers/networks as instruments ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 152.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10698408) - [guide to completing your application (docx, 42.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1939) - [nhse - verification of id and rtw guide (pdf, 306.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=996) - [occupational functional requirements form (pdf, 69.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10698407) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.