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 role sits within the NHS England National CSOC Threat Intelligence team, comprised of four primary functions:
Intelligence Collection & Analysis - Perform collection, aggregation, analysis and contextualisation of healthcare and security information to produce actionable CTI.
Cybersecurity Threat & Risk Assessment - Perform high-level risk assessments of current and emerging threats to the health & social care estate.
Intelligence Dissemination & Reporting - Produce stakeholder-specific intelligence reporting for stakeholders.
Specialist CTI Support - Provides specialist CTI support to CSOC during high complexity incidents
The Junior Threat Intelligence Analyst (Security Officer) acts as a threat intelligence specialist within the CSOC aimed at analysing and identify potential security threats facing NHS England as identified by the CSOC’s threat intelligence collection and analysis capabilities.
You will be a threat intelligence analyst reporting to the threat intelligence senior analyst. Your core responsibilities will be to:
Interrogate threat intelligence sources to identify items of interest for triage and analysis.
Collect and process information from threat intelligence sources to aid the identification of potential cyber threats.
Contextualise and interpret threats via the use of intelligence models and frameworks.
Accurately identify indicators of compromise within intelligence items as well as potential detection opportunities.
Carry out investigations into intelligence items of significance, identifying opportunities for further lead development.
Provide specialist CTI support to protective monitoring teams during high complexity incidents.
Create intelligence products in the manner most appropriate for the audience, taking care to quote sources and state confidence.
Contribute to the continuous development of the Threat Operations pod.
Delivering against CSOC security requirements as directed by senior leadership.
Assist in-depth CTI investigations.
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.
As part of the shortlisting process you may be asked to complete an assessment via a third party platform called Immersive Labs. Immersive Labs is a gamified learning environment. We use their screening product to help assess whether our candidates meet the technical requirements we’re looking for during the recruitment process.
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
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