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About the Role

Security Operations is responsible for protecting the Bank’s people, buildings, assets, information, and operations. As a Security Supervisor, you will provide visible frontline leadership and oversee the safe, professional, and effective delivery of security operations, with a primary responsibility for the day-to-day supervision of a designated security cohort.

Responsibilities

Provide visible leadership and day-to-day supervision to in-house security personnel.
Coordinate public-facing security, access control, screening, searches, vehicle, and delivery activity, guarding, and patrols.
Translate management priorities into clear briefings, instructions, and operational tasking.
Allocate duties, monitor post coverage, and maintain accurate information on personnel locations and operational commitments.
Ensure personnel maintain high standards of vigilance, conduct, appearance, customer service, and procedural compliance.
Respond to incidents, alarms, and emergencies, making timely and proportionate tactical decisions within delegated authority.
Initiate approved security and emergency procedures, coordinate available resources, and maintain effective communication until responsibility transfers to a Security Manager or the emergency services.
Ensure incidents, decisions, handovers, and operational activity are recorded and escalated appropriately.
Address immediate concerns relating to standards, conduct or performance through instruction, feedback, and coaching, escalating serious or repeated concerns through the appropriate management arrangements.
Support day-to-day attendance, sickness, welfare, and development matters within the boundaries of the role.
Conduct proportionate checks of posts, equipment, records and operational delivery, supporting audits, exercises, and assurance activity.
Deliver operational briefings and task-specific instruction, identify training needs, and communicate learning from incidents and exercises.
Apply security controls firmly, consistently, proportionately, and respectfully.
Build effective working relationships with Bank colleagues, contracted security providers, visitors, contractors, senior stakeholders, emergency services, and external security partners.
Contribute frontline knowledge and operational feedback to reviews and service improvements.

Requirements

Experience supervising or leading personnel in a security or comparable operational environment.
Experience responding to incidents and implementing emergency procedures.
Clear verbal and written communication skills.
The ability to work the stated Monday-to-Friday pattern and across Bank locations as required.
The ability to provide visible frontline leadership and clear operational direction.
Strong situational awareness, sound judgement, and proportionate decision-making under pressure.
The ability to coordinate resources, manage competing priorities and escalate shortfalls or risks promptly.
Experience addressing operational standards, conduct and performance through instruction, coaching, and appropriate escalation.
The ability to support attendance, welfare, and staff development within defined supervisory boundaries.
Good working knowledge of access control, searches, screening, patrols, guarding, and building-security operations.
Competence in relevant security technology, including CCTV, access-control, alarm, fire, communication, and screening systems.
The ability to operate effectively in a Security Control Room environment, assess information, maintain accurate records, coordinate responses, and escalate incidents.
A professional, customer-focused approach and the confidence to engage with a wide range of stakeholders.
High standards of integrity, discretion, professionalism, and personal accountability.
The flexibility to support wider Security Operations activity within the remit of the role.
Employment in this role will be subject to the National Security Vetting clearance process and the passing of additional Bank security checks.
Must complete the ‘work history’ section and answer ALL the application questions fully.

Skills

Access control and identity verification
Perimeter, reception, and front-of-house security
Vehicle access, deliveries, and screening
Personal, property, vehicle, and building searches
X-ray and other screening activities
Static guarding and patrols
Security Control Room operations
Monitoring CCTV, access-control, alarm, fire, and communication systems
Event and incident support
Responses to security, fire, and medical emergencies
Verbal and written communication
Situational awareness
Judgement
Decision-making
Resource coordination
Priority management
Escalation
Instruction
Coaching
Customer service
Integrity
Discretion
Professionalism
Personal accountability

Location

Threadneedle Street
Moorgate
Other Bank locations

Work Type

Fully site-based
Full-time

Experience Level

Supervisory

Salary/Compensations

£33,600 - £37,800

Benefits

Non-contributory, career average pension (1/80th of annual salary per year)
Option to increase or decrease pension accrual rate
Discretionary performance award
8% benefits allowance (can be taken as salary or flexible benefits)
26 days’ annual leave (option to buy up to 12 additional days)
Private medical insurance
Income protection

About the Company

We are the UK's central bank, known for our world-leading thinking on policy and strategy.
Our mission is to promote the good of the UK by maintaining monetary and financial stability, keeping prices stable and people's money safe.
We are driven by curiosity and the desire to do important, challenging work.
We rely on each other to play our part and benefit from a collaborative culture and long-established flexible ways of working.
We strive to be a place where people feel they belong and have equal access to opportunities, because different perspectives help us make the best decisions for the public.
Join us and find a bank like no other. Together, we can make a difference.

Equal Opportunity

The Bank values diversity, equity and inclusion.
We want all colleagues to feel valued and respected, and are working hard to build an inclusive culture which supports people from all backgrounds and communities.
We celebrate all forms of diversity, including age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation and socioeconomic status.
We are proud to be a member of the Disability Confident Scheme.