Screening
Find out what the Screening role in government does and the skills you need to do the role at each level.
Role overview
Screening’s role is to align the screening processes (including vetting) with a risk-based approach to assure that incoming individuals (and any subsequent internal movers) have been appropriately assessed.
Role levels
Typical role expectations
- Conduct pre-employment and post-employment screenings in line with relevant regulation, policy, and standards
- Produce comprehensive reports on the outcome of screening procedures
- Support the implementation of a proportionate, multi-disciplinary approach to countering insider threats
- Contribute to creating and maintaining policies and procedures associated with the screening process
Typical role expectations
- Manage a team of screening professionals to deliver appropriate decisions in line with risk appetite and relevant regulation, policy, and standards
- Develop and design the implementation of a proportionate, multi-disciplinary approach to countering insider threats
- Manage corporate reviews after any significant incidents
- Lead on creating and maintaining policies and procedures associated with the screening process
Typical role expectations
- Manage a team of screening leads and their teams to deliver appropriate decisions in line with risk appetite and relevant regulation, policy, and standards
- Review and make decisions based on comprehensive reports on the outcome of screening procedures
- Lead the implementation of a proportionate, multi-disciplinary approach to countering insider threats
- Lead and provide oversight to cross-team corporate reviews after any significant incidents
Skills
| Skill | Associate | Lead | Principle |
|---|---|---|---|
| Applied Personnel Security | Working | Practitioner | Expert |
| Risk understanding and mitigation | Working | Practitioner | Expert |
| Legal and regulatory environment and compliance | Awareness | Working | Practitioner |
| Threat understanding | Awareness | Working | Practitioner |
| Investigative interviewing | Awareness | Working | Working |
| Protective security | Awareness | Working | Working |
Core learning
Associate
Conducting Investigations
Risk Management for Non-Risk Professional
Giving Evidence in Employment Tribunals
Lead
SEC566: Implementing and Auditing Security Frameworks and Controls
NPSA – Security Culture
Risk Management for Non-Risk Professional
Principal
Certified ISO27001 Practitioner
QACSRM (Certified Security Risk Manager)
NPSA – Reducing Insider Risk