Vetting Supervisor - Counter Terrorism Policing

Closing date: 25th May 2025, 11:59pm

Salary: £36,630 - £42,897

Grade: 6

Today terrorism is a constant threat within the United Kingdom. By joining Counter Terrorism Policing (CTP) West Midlands, you can directly contribute to keeping the UK safe and help us tackle the threat.

The West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit (WMCTU) forms part of a national network of specialist services and UK police forces, helping protect the public against terrorist activity. We’re looking for an enthusiastic and experienced team leader to join the Security team as the National Security Vetting Supervisor at WMCTU.

This role is based in our modern offices near to the Birmingham International Airport. You’ll work Monday to Friday, between the core hours of 0700 – 1830.

The role

National security vetting is an integral part of a police service framework of ethics and professional standards. It assists with identifying individuals who are unsuitable to work within the police service, or to have access to police assets, through vetting research utilising a variety of intelligence and information systems.

As the National Security Vetting Supervisor within WMCTU, you’ll play a key part in leading a small team of Vetting Officers ensuring all applicants (officers, staff, partners, and contractors) are all appropriately vetted, preventing individuals who carry threat and risk from joining the West Midlands Police.

You will be responsible for driving the day-to-day delivery and performance of the Vetting team ensuring service delivery targets, as well as the strategic priorities of WMCTU are met.

The role will support the Vetting Manager with all national security vetting decisions, approving or withdrawing applications, as well as leading on potential vetting appeals.

Working together within a dedicated team of vetting experts, you’ll also provide advice and support as a subject matter expert regarding vetting requirements with regard to Counter Terrorism Checks (CTC), Security Checks (SC) and Developed Vetting (DV) clearances.

Having the scope to work on your own initiative you’ll be part of a flexible and friendly team. This is a unique, varied, and rewarding challenge within a busy and dynamic environment.

Responsibilities

Manage national security vetting to ensure that processes and decision making are necessary, appropriate and proportionate.
Assess information and intelligence with regards national security vetting applications completed by Vetting Officers, utilising that information to make routine decisions to approve, refuse or withdraw vetting applications.
To ensure that all complex and sensitive vetting decisions and appeals are effectively researched and briefed to the Vetting Manager so that decisions to approve, refuse or withdraw national security clearances can be made at that level.
Arrange and conducting interviews with vetting applicants to support the decision-making process.
Creating a professional environment, ensuring that the team has the correct skills, competencies and resource levels to deliver.
Ensure that high quality, effective, efficient and consistent services are delivered at all times against agreed governance, performance targets, audit controls, force policy, regional SLA’s and statutory legislation.
To provide an analysis of accurate, timely, relevant and usable management information which identifies current performance and informs the need for improvement and the future design of the service.

Skills and competencies

Essential

Effective and proven skills in leading a team demonstrating passion for the role, motivation, integrity, support and staff development.
Clear communicator with excellent verbal and written communication skills, who acts in a collaborative way that engages people at all levels.
Able to assess complex information and make appropriate, necessary and proportionate decisions.
Experience of supervising and prioritising the workload of a team.
Achieves outcomes for customers – is customer and outcome focused and strives for continuous improvement.
Experience in developing teams and individuals, including the use of performance management tools.
Experience of interpreting and applying new legislation, policy and guidelines to ensure services are delivered in line with those protocols.
Proficient IT skills in Microsoft Office, Word, Excel and Outlook.

Desirable

Experience and knowledge of GDPR and the Data Protection Act.
Experience of presenting data in graphical and numerical format.

Security Clearance

⚠ This post requires British nationality (some dual nationalities may be ineligible) and Developed Vetting clearance.

You will need to undergo additional security clearance checks, with the offer of employment being conditional on obtaining all of the necessary security clearances.

There are limitations on travelling to a small number of countries once in post.

Diversity & Inclusion

We maximise the potential of people from all backgrounds through a culture of fairness and inclusion to deliver the best service for our communities, whilst protecting them from harm.

Counter Terrorism Policing is always working to build upon our diverse workforce to reflect the country we serve. An inclusive culture enables us to do things differently, working in ways that meet individuals’ needs, flexing working patterns to ensure work-life balance is healthy so that we deliver the best for the organisation.

We are a Disability Confident Leader - the highest level an organisation can achieve under the scheme run by the Department of Work and Pensions. As part of our commitment we operate a Disability Confident Interview Scheme - all candidates who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be offered an interview.

It is important to note that there may be occasions where it is not practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled people who meet the essential criteria for the job. For example, in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. In these circumstances, the employer could select the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job, as they would do for non-disabled applicants.

Advertisement Closing Date

We reserve the right to close this advertisement early if the maximum volume of applications has been reached. Candidates with unsubmitted applications will not be informed prior to the advert closing.

Please do not attach a CV/covering letter as these will not be used during the application process.