Cyber Security Officer (Insider Risk)
NHS England
Leeds, LS1 4APView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£43,955 to £52,929
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
1 November 2026
13 days leftJob description
Cyber Operations purpose is to support safe care and build public trust by building NHS England's cyber resilience and enabling the wider health syste...
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
NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.
Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms -- enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.
In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.
If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR).This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.
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
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
16 October 2026
Last checked
19 October 2026
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