Join our team as a Vetting Officer and play a vital role in safeguarding the integrity and security of our organisation. You’ll be the first point of contact for all vetting matters, ensuring consistency, fairness, and professionalism in every decision. This is a key position where your judgment and attention to detail will directly impact the safety and trust placed in our workforce.
Key Responsibilities
- Primary Contact for Vetting: Act as the main internal and external liaison for all vetting-related queries, including coordination with other forces and agencies.
- Security Checks: Conduct thorough background checks for all levels of security vetting, ensuring vetting is appropriate to each role and that associated payments are processed correctly.
- Decision Making: Make informed decisions on granting or refusing vetting clearance, including requesting security comments from officers and staff.
- Risk Identification: Flag complex or sensitive cases to the Vetting and Security Manager for further review and decision-making.
- Quality Assurance: Maintain robust audit trails and documentation for all vetting activities. Recommend improvements to systems and practices to enhance security.
- Interviews & Reporting: Conduct interviews when necessary and produce detailed reports to support vetting decisions.
- Advisory Role: Provide guidance to HR and other departments on appropriate vetting levels for roles across officers, staff, contractors, and partners.
- Data Accuracy: Identify and report duplicate or inaccurate records to relevant departments for correction.
- Team Support: Assist colleagues in other areas of the department during peak periods, with appropriate training provided.
Job Types: Part-time, Permanent
Pay: £29,109.00-£32,247.00 per year
Expected hours: 18 per week
Benefits:
- Canteen
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Flexitime
- Free parking
- On-site gym
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
Work Location: In person
Reference ID: 25/108