Senior Vetting Officer
Post Title: Senior Vetting Officer
Contract type: Permanent
Rank/grade: D
Salary: Starting Salary 36,040 + £6,710 London Weighting*pay award pending*
Directorate/department: Professional Standards Department
Vetting level required: MV/SC
Location: 21 New Street, London, EC2M 4TP
This role is open to all Police Staff / external candidates who meet the essential criteria of the person spec, regardless of current grade.
The City of London Corporation is currently undergoing a programme to ensure that our pay and reward practices are competitive and equitable across the whole organisation to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to thrive in the work that we do.
Who are we?
As City of London Police, we protect the people, businesses and infrastructure of the City of London, one of the most important and dynamic environments in the UK and globally. London City is the smallest borough in London, so does that make our job any less challenging? Absolutely not – because there’s so much going on.
City of London Police play a vital role in keeping the City of London diverse community safe. As a Police Staff Member you will be helping to making the city safer and deliver a valued service for those that live, work and visit the City.
The City of London Police is keen to promote flexible working and will, subject to operational policing requirements, proactively consider all applications to work flexibly.
The City of London Police is committed to equality of opportunities and continuously strive for inclusivity within our Force. We welcome applications from all sections of the community, particularly from those who are disabled, have long-term health conditions, and/or are neurodivergent, those with Black, Asian and other Minority Ethnic backgrounds, female candidates, and LGBTQIA+ individuals.
About the team
The Senior Vetting Officer supervises the day to day activities of a team of 11 Vetting Officers. You will be working alongside a Police Sargeant, Senior Vetting Officer, and reporting to the Force Vetting Manager. The Senior Vetting Officer ensures that high service standards are achieved, and that vetting decisions are made in accordance with the College of Policing Code of Vetting Practice and associated guidance, and local force vetting policy.
About the role
The Senior Vetting Officer ensures that systems, processes and practices are maintained and supported in accordance with relevant best practice, policy and legislation. To ensure that individuals working with or for the Force have an acceptable level of integrity so as to guarantee that they do not pose an undue threat to the security of the police, government or sensitive information, systems assets, premises and persons. The role requires support to be provided to the Vetting Officer team, by providing regular training and guidance to support professional development.
Responsibilities
In this role, you will be:
- Monitor and manage team performance, devising and implementing effective strategies to identify issues and ensure continuous improvement.
- Manage complex cases to deliver appropriate risk-based vetting decisions and ensure vetting process and follow-up requirements are effectively managed and delivered.
- Conduct Vetting interviews, where necessary to clarify information, ensuring vetting decisions are based on an appropriate understanding of the information.
- Provide information, advice and guidance on vetting matters, to act as a point of contact for the City of London Police, ensuring the Vetting Team has compliance with national and force policies, organisational priorities, best practice and legislative requirements.
- Responsible for risk assessing all adverse findings and providing evidence based decisions on suitability for vetting clearance, whilst maintaining compliance with the National Vetting Code of Practice legislation, force policy & APP for Vetting.
For this role, we need you to have experience of:
- Demonstrate the ability to lead and develop staff.
- Demonstrate the ability to work independently to tight deadlines and under pressure with confidence, whilst maintaining accuracy and attention to detail.
- Address groups and individuals, deliver messages and answer questions concisely with sound factual reasoning.
- Ability to be perceptive, assess character, interpret behaviour and identify motivation.
This vacancy is open only to those who have the right to work in the UK.
If you would like to discuss the role please contact: Force Vetting Manager Abbie Hardman – abbie.hardman@cityoflondon.police.uk
Selection Process
As part of the initial application process, you will be asked to evidence how your experience, skills, and knowledge demonstrate your ability to meet the person specification of the role.
The application and interview will be tested under Level 2 of the College of Policing Competency and Values Framework.
Applicants who fail to address the skills/knowledge/experience of the job description will not be considered.
The closing date for applications is 1st December 2025.
Following shortlisting, successful candidates will be invited to attend a competency-based interview, to be held Week commencing 15th December 2025.
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Benefits:
A diverse workforce improves the service we provide to our public by making us more approachable and relevant within our communities. This is why it’s vitally important that we recruit people from a wide range of communities and backgrounds with an understanding of cultural issues and a wide range of skills. We therefore particularly encourage female and people from Black, Asian and other Minority Ethnic communities to join us.
The way we work is changing. With a few exceptions most roles will be able to accommodate part time, job share and flexible working patterns. We can also offer hybrid working patterns of home and office based shift patterns. Feel free to speak to us about any flexible working requirements.
The Force has a number of Staff Support Networks that can offer you support and advice. Applicants are very welcome to contact the networks directly if they need any support or ask any question before they apply. For further information on the networks and their contact details please visit:
- LGPS Pension Scheme -Local Government Pension Scheme explained - Which?
- Access to Blue Light Card scheme -Welcome to Blue Light Card
- Discounts within the Square Mile specifically for City of London Police employees
- Free access to our Force Gym (with dedicated time for female colleagues throughout the week), Personal Training Instructors with a range of specialisms, and a large variety of fitness and wellbeing programmes
- 25 + bank holidays, increasing up to 34 days with continuous service
- Season Ticket Loans