Job summary
- Main area
- Cyber Operations
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 990-TDD-CY-586-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wellington Place, Leeds/Hexagon House, Exeter/Wellington House, London
- Town
- Leeds/Exeter/London
- Salary
- £66,828 - £75,218 Per Annum (this includes a RRP payment of 20%). Exclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/02/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Cyber Security Analyst (Threat Intelligence)
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
We are an accredited Living Wage Employer which means that every colleague working for our organisation and third-party contractors will earn a real Living Wage. We are one of over 15,000 organisations, who voluntarily chose to pay the real Living Wage.
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.
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)
This role is within the Cyber Security Threat Intelligence team within NHS England National CSOC, part of CSOU.
The CSOU function provides centralised monitoring and response across NHSE, and the system, which consists of Threat Operations, Protective Monitoring, Incident Management & response and DevOps.
The Threat Intelligence function is comprised of four primary functions:
- Performing intelligence collection, aggregation, analysis and contextualisation of healthcare and security information to produce actionable cyber threat intelligence
- Performing high-level risk assessments of current and emerging threats to the health & social care estate
- Producing stakeholder-specific intelligence reporting for internal and external stakeholders
- Providing specialist Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) support during high complexity incident
The Senior Security Analyst is responsible for collecting, analysing and disseminating cyber threat intelligence to identify threats to the systems, infrastructures, and resources critical to NHS England and across Health & Care.
Main duties of the job
The Senior Security Analyst (Threat Intelligence) will perform a supervisory role within the Threat Intelligence team as well as acting as a technical subject matter expert for other teams and stakeholders across Cyber Operations.
Responsibilities include:
- Generating Strategic and Technical Threat Intelligence products for CSOC stakeholders.
Supervising a team of threat intelligence analysts as well as reporting and raising issues to senior leadership - Act as a quality and audit layer for written Threat Intelligence products
- Making Cyber Threat Intelligence decisions within Incident Response scenarios and leading in-depth cyber threat intelligence investigations
- Act as the escalation tier for cyber threat intelligence tasks within Cyber Security tooling including EDR and SIEM tooling
- Interrogate threat intelligence and internal security tooling to identify items of interest and potential cyber threats.
- Proactive research and assessment of Tactics. Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) of cyber threat groups
- Development of analytical procedures to meet changing requirements and team development, as well as adapting to a rapidly changing security environment
- Delivery of technical capability development, identification, and implementation of automation use cases within cyber threat intelligence and Security Operations
- Supporting the ongoing development and continuous improvement of the CSOC’s Cyber Threat Intelligence function in line with industry best practice
Working for our organisation
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.
We lead the NHS in England by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where people can develop and make a difference
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money
Earlier this year, the Government announced that NHS England will gradually merge with the Department of Health and Social Care, to create a smaller, more strategic centre that reduces duplication and waste.
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-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
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 Senior Security Analyst and this job title is advertised to attract the right skills needed for the role.
The post of Senior Security Analyst 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 20% per annum.
Please be aware that RRP is non-contractual and subject to review
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Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate the knowledge of collection, analyses and reporting of information from various sources to identify potential cyber threats, risks and vulnerabilities.
- Extensive knowledge of techniques, approaches and processes of digital threats; ability to detect, monitor, analyse and prevent digital threats.
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrable knowledge of and ability to utilise a variety of specific tools for collecting, analysing, and presenting digital-related evidence.
Skills and Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable knowledge of technologies and technology-based solutions dealing with information security issues; ability to apply these in protecting information security across the organisation.
Desirable criteria
- Working knowledge of concept, issues and techniques of endpoint security; ability to ensure security compliance of endpoint devices in various circumstances.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Masters level degree in Cyber Security or a relevant subject, or equivalent level of experience.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Francis Taylor
- Job title
- Security Lead (Analyst)
- Email address
- [email protected]
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