Job summary
- Main area
- Cyber Operations
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (until 31 October 2026 - Secondment only for current NHS employees)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 990-TD-CY-15007-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wellington Place/ Hexagon House
- Town
- Leeds / Exeter
- Salary
- £66,828 - £75,218 per annum (inclusive of RRP payment)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Cyber Security Analyst - Service Delivery
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, supporting NHS England’s purpose of delivering the best care and outcomes for the NHS.
The Cyber Operations sub-directorate consists of 4 operational areas:
- Cyber Security Operations Unit (CSOU)
- Cyber Delivery Unit (CDU)
- Cyber Improvement Programme (CIP)
- Chief Information Security Office Function (CISO)
This role is in the Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC) which is part of the CSOU and provides centralised security monitoring across both NHS England and the wider health and care system in England. The CSOC consists of Protective Monitoring, Threat Operations, Incident Management, Service Operations and Engineering.
To support our strategy to improve NHS cyber resilience, we are recruiting for a Senior Security Analyst who specialises in Service Delivery Management as part of the CSOC Service Operations team.
The post of Senior Security Analyst for Service Delivery 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.
Main duties of the job
As a Senior Security Analyst for Service Delivery, you will manage the relationships with all CSOC customers, ensuring that the CSOC capability and service levels are aligned to their needs and expectations:
- Primary CSOC customer engagement for all monitored systems.
- Produce regular service reports for customers, chair regular service reviews with customers, ensure suitable service delivery metrics are provided and manage arising actions.
- Own the governance process to assess customer services’ readiness for live CSOC monitoring, ensuring that quality criteria are met and follow-up actions are implemented.
- Supervise heightened oversight activities during the initial period of services’ live monitoring.
- Ensure that CSOC service incidents (internal and customer facing) are appropriately identified, reported, prioritised, investigated and managed through to resolution.
- Produce regular internal service performance reports for CSOC senior stakeholders.
- Maintain strong working relationships with CSOC’s customers and stakeholders at all levels.
- Develop and document business policies, processes and procedures to govern, manage and guide CSOC Service Operations.
- Continuous service improvement, including procedural documentation and KPI reporting.
Working for our organisation
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose 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 our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- 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.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
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.
If you are successful at interview, we will run an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) in the Electronic Staff Record system (ESR). This transfer gathers valuable information from a previous or current NHS employer to support the onboarding process, including; statutory and mandatory competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You will have the opportunity throughout the recruitment process to inform us if you do not consent.
Detailed job description and main 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.
Please note that the reason for the fixed term of this contract is short term vacancy
You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Secondments
Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Proven knowledge of the strategies, accountability framework, organisational structure and processes used to encourage proper behaviour in IT activities and operations, and ability to implement IT systems and controls to meet business needs and requirements.
- Demonstrable knowledge of and the ability to protect information and information systems while ensuring their confidentiality, integrity and availability.
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrable knowledge of modules, processes and technologies of Information Security Operation Centre (ISOC); ability to detect, response and utilise related platform and applications to perform cyber security initiatives.
Skills and Experience
Essential criteria
- Proven knowledge of processes, tools and techniques for assessing and controlling an organisation's exposure to risks of various kinds; ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.
Desirable criteria
- Proven 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.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Masters level degree 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
- Daryl Kayes
- Job title
- Cyber Security Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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