Salary:£86,795 to £99,529, comprising a basic salary starting from £83,651 and a Concessionary Payment of £3,144. We will offer a salary within this range that reflects your skills and experience. You may also be eligible for an Individual Recruitment Premium (IRP) of £6,469, depending on your experience and current pay and benefits. This payment is reviewed annually and is not guaranteed. Flexible working:We understand that everyone works differently, so we offer a range of flexible working options. These include full-time and part-time hours, with a minimum of four days per week, compressed hours, and flexible start and finish times. Due to the sensitive nature of the role, opportunities for home or remote working are limited. About us GCHQ is an intelligence, cyber and security agency with a mission to keep the UK safe. We use cutting-edge technology, ingenuity and partnerships to identify, analyse and disrupt threats. Working closely with our intelligence partners MI5 and MI6, we help protect the UK from terrorism, cyber-attacks and espionage. At GCHQ, you'll do varied and fascinating work in a supportive and inclusive environment that puts the emphasis on teamwork. The role As Head of Corporate Psychology, you'll set the long-term strategic direction and lead the delivery and continuous development of corporate psychology services, supporting the organisation through a period of growth and consolidation. You'll ensure services effectively enable organisational performance, people and priorities, operating at a senior level to provide expert psychological advice and assurance to leaders navigating complex organisational and workforce challenges. This is a high-profile leadership role, where you'll shape how psychological expertise is applied across areas such as vetting, wellbeing and recruitment. Working across multiple systems and agencies, you'll engage and influence senior internal and external stakeholders, building strong relationships to support effective decision-making. You'll operate within a fast-paced, often unpredictable environment, ensuring that practice remains responsive, proportionate and aligned with organisational risk. Operating with a high degree of autonomy, you'll lead a small team of specialist practitioner psychologists, providing coaching, professional leadership, ethical oversight and development. Accountability includes maintaining professional standards and ensuring the quality and impact of services, driving continuous improvement and compliant delivery across all areas of practice. Day to day, you'll contribute to complex, risk-based decision making, where ambiguity and uncertainty are common. This includes consultation on sensitive cases involving risk, security and staff wellbeing, applying sound judgement in challenging situations. Effective influencing skills, adaptability and the ability to build trust are critical to success. The scope of the role is broad, unique and highly stimulating, spanning strategic leadership, professional oversight and stakeholder engagement. As part of the wider senior leadership community, this role is pivotal in strengthening organisational capability, driving significant organisational impact, and shaping the ongoing evolution of corporate psychology in response to emerging challenges. About you You bring significant experience as a practitioner psychologist, applying psychological expertise within complex organisational environments. As an HCPC- registered Practitioner Psychologist, with a background in Clinical (Doctorate or equivalent) or Occupational Psychology, you operate with confidence and credibility at a senior level. This is underpinned by extensive post-registration experience, gained at Consultant (Clinical) or Principal (Occupational) level, alongside experience leading services, functions or programmes of work. You understand how to apply psychological expertise across organisational settings, whether through assessment, consultancy, intervention or service development, and are comfortable taking responsibility for high-impact, sensitive areas of work. You're an experienced leader, able to provide both professional and operational direction to specialist teams. Confident in managing and developing senior practitioners, you maintain high professional standards while supporting others to grow and succeed. You're also comfortable representing your function internally and externally, acting as a credible and authoritative voice for psychology, with significant organisational influence. With refined consultancy and influencing skills, you build effective relationships and advise senior stakeholders on complex, often sensitive issues. You balance professional rigour with pragmatism, applying evidence-based approaches while remaining responsive to organisational priorities and constraints. You're adaptable and thoughtful in your approach, able to operate effectively in environments shaped by uncertainty, change and competing demands. You exercise sound judgement, particularly where work involves risk, security or staff wellbeing, maintaining a firm commitment to professional ethics, integrity and continuous improvement. You demonstrate a clear commitment to promoting equity, inclusion and diversity through your leadership and professional practice, fostering an inclusive and respectful working environment. Training and development We're committed to supporting your ongoing development as a senior practitioner and leader, helping you sustain high-quality, ethical practice within a complex and evolving organisational environment. On joining, you'll receive a structured induction to the organisation and your team, giving you a clear understanding of how corporate psychology contributes to our mission. We offer access to a range of continuing professional development opportunities aligned to advanced practice and leadership. This includes peer networks, professional supervision where appropriate, and opportunities to connect with other psychology and behavioural science specialists across the organisation and the wider intelligence community. At this level, development is largely shaped through practice. Building expertise comes through leading strategic initiatives, advising senior stakeholders and helping to shape the future direction of corporate psychology. A key part of the role also involves developing others, supporting the growth of practitioner psychologists and strengthening capability across the function. You'll be encouraged to maintain your professional registration and stay current with evolving research, standards and best practice. Development may include specialist training, leadership programmes, and opportunities to contribute to cross-government or external professional forums. Progression at this level may be more limited in traditional terms, but there is potential to move into broader leadership roles over time. Future development pathways are continuing to evolve, reflecting both organisational need and the expanding role of psychology within this context. Rewards and benefits You'll receive a starting salary of £86,795 to £99,529, plus other benefits including: 25 days' annual leave, rising automatically to 30 days after 5 years' service, and an additional 10.5 days of public and privilege holidays. Previous NHS service will be recognised opportunities to be recognised through our employee performance scheme an interest free season ticket loan a cycle to work scheme facilities such as a gym, restaurant, and on site coffee bars at some locations paid parental and adoption leave Equal opportunities At GCHQ, diversity and inclusion are critical to our mission. To protect the UK, we need a truly diverse workforce that reflects the society we serve. This includes diversity in every sense of the word: people with different backgrounds, ages, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, ways of thinking, and those with disabilities or neurodivergent conditions. We therefore welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including those from groups that are underrepresented in our workforce, such as women, people from ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities, and those from low socio economic backgrounds. Find out more about our culture, working environment and diversity on our website. We're Disability Confident GCHQ is proud to have achieved Leader status within the Department for Work and Pensions Disability Confident scheme. This scheme aims to encourage employers to think differently about disability and take action to improve how they recruit, retain and develop disabled people. As a Disability Confident organisation, we aim to offer a fair and proportionate number of person to person interviews to any candidate who self identifies as disabled and meets the essential criteria for the role. This is our 'Offer of Interview' (OOI). The following essential criteria will be assessed at sift. To secure an interview for this vacancy, candidates must meet these criteria to be considered for interview (in order of the application process); You will be required to reach the minimum pass mark for the online Situational Judgement Test (SJT), which assesses criteria important for all roles in our organisation Registration as an HCPC Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical or Principal Level) Demonstrate the ability to lead services, functions, and programmes of work at a senior level Demonstrate the ability to navigate complex high stakes organisational environments using psychological expertise . click apply for full job details
Jul 30, 2026
Full time
Salary:£86,795 to £99,529, comprising a basic salary starting from £83,651 and a Concessionary Payment of £3,144. We will offer a salary within this range that reflects your skills and experience. You may also be eligible for an Individual Recruitment Premium (IRP) of £6,469, depending on your experience and current pay and benefits. This payment is reviewed annually and is not guaranteed. Flexible working:We understand that everyone works differently, so we offer a range of flexible working options. These include full-time and part-time hours, with a minimum of four days per week, compressed hours, and flexible start and finish times. Due to the sensitive nature of the role, opportunities for home or remote working are limited. About us GCHQ is an intelligence, cyber and security agency with a mission to keep the UK safe. We use cutting-edge technology, ingenuity and partnerships to identify, analyse and disrupt threats. Working closely with our intelligence partners MI5 and MI6, we help protect the UK from terrorism, cyber-attacks and espionage. At GCHQ, you'll do varied and fascinating work in a supportive and inclusive environment that puts the emphasis on teamwork. The role As Head of Corporate Psychology, you'll set the long-term strategic direction and lead the delivery and continuous development of corporate psychology services, supporting the organisation through a period of growth and consolidation. You'll ensure services effectively enable organisational performance, people and priorities, operating at a senior level to provide expert psychological advice and assurance to leaders navigating complex organisational and workforce challenges. This is a high-profile leadership role, where you'll shape how psychological expertise is applied across areas such as vetting, wellbeing and recruitment. Working across multiple systems and agencies, you'll engage and influence senior internal and external stakeholders, building strong relationships to support effective decision-making. You'll operate within a fast-paced, often unpredictable environment, ensuring that practice remains responsive, proportionate and aligned with organisational risk. Operating with a high degree of autonomy, you'll lead a small team of specialist practitioner psychologists, providing coaching, professional leadership, ethical oversight and development. Accountability includes maintaining professional standards and ensuring the quality and impact of services, driving continuous improvement and compliant delivery across all areas of practice. Day to day, you'll contribute to complex, risk-based decision making, where ambiguity and uncertainty are common. This includes consultation on sensitive cases involving risk, security and staff wellbeing, applying sound judgement in challenging situations. Effective influencing skills, adaptability and the ability to build trust are critical to success. The scope of the role is broad, unique and highly stimulating, spanning strategic leadership, professional oversight and stakeholder engagement. As part of the wider senior leadership community, this role is pivotal in strengthening organisational capability, driving significant organisational impact, and shaping the ongoing evolution of corporate psychology in response to emerging challenges. About you You bring significant experience as a practitioner psychologist, applying psychological expertise within complex organisational environments. As an HCPC- registered Practitioner Psychologist, with a background in Clinical (Doctorate or equivalent) or Occupational Psychology, you operate with confidence and credibility at a senior level. This is underpinned by extensive post-registration experience, gained at Consultant (Clinical) or Principal (Occupational) level, alongside experience leading services, functions or programmes of work. You understand how to apply psychological expertise across organisational settings, whether through assessment, consultancy, intervention or service development, and are comfortable taking responsibility for high-impact, sensitive areas of work. You're an experienced leader, able to provide both professional and operational direction to specialist teams. Confident in managing and developing senior practitioners, you maintain high professional standards while supporting others to grow and succeed. You're also comfortable representing your function internally and externally, acting as a credible and authoritative voice for psychology, with significant organisational influence. With refined consultancy and influencing skills, you build effective relationships and advise senior stakeholders on complex, often sensitive issues. You balance professional rigour with pragmatism, applying evidence-based approaches while remaining responsive to organisational priorities and constraints. You're adaptable and thoughtful in your approach, able to operate effectively in environments shaped by uncertainty, change and competing demands. You exercise sound judgement, particularly where work involves risk, security or staff wellbeing, maintaining a firm commitment to professional ethics, integrity and continuous improvement. You demonstrate a clear commitment to promoting equity, inclusion and diversity through your leadership and professional practice, fostering an inclusive and respectful working environment. Training and development We're committed to supporting your ongoing development as a senior practitioner and leader, helping you sustain high-quality, ethical practice within a complex and evolving organisational environment. On joining, you'll receive a structured induction to the organisation and your team, giving you a clear understanding of how corporate psychology contributes to our mission. We offer access to a range of continuing professional development opportunities aligned to advanced practice and leadership. This includes peer networks, professional supervision where appropriate, and opportunities to connect with other psychology and behavioural science specialists across the organisation and the wider intelligence community. At this level, development is largely shaped through practice. Building expertise comes through leading strategic initiatives, advising senior stakeholders and helping to shape the future direction of corporate psychology. A key part of the role also involves developing others, supporting the growth of practitioner psychologists and strengthening capability across the function. You'll be encouraged to maintain your professional registration and stay current with evolving research, standards and best practice. Development may include specialist training, leadership programmes, and opportunities to contribute to cross-government or external professional forums. Progression at this level may be more limited in traditional terms, but there is potential to move into broader leadership roles over time. Future development pathways are continuing to evolve, reflecting both organisational need and the expanding role of psychology within this context. Rewards and benefits You'll receive a starting salary of £86,795 to £99,529, plus other benefits including: 25 days' annual leave, rising automatically to 30 days after 5 years' service, and an additional 10.5 days of public and privilege holidays. Previous NHS service will be recognised opportunities to be recognised through our employee performance scheme an interest free season ticket loan a cycle to work scheme facilities such as a gym, restaurant, and on site coffee bars at some locations paid parental and adoption leave Equal opportunities At GCHQ, diversity and inclusion are critical to our mission. To protect the UK, we need a truly diverse workforce that reflects the society we serve. This includes diversity in every sense of the word: people with different backgrounds, ages, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, ways of thinking, and those with disabilities or neurodivergent conditions. We therefore welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including those from groups that are underrepresented in our workforce, such as women, people from ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities, and those from low socio economic backgrounds. Find out more about our culture, working environment and diversity on our website. We're Disability Confident GCHQ is proud to have achieved Leader status within the Department for Work and Pensions Disability Confident scheme. This scheme aims to encourage employers to think differently about disability and take action to improve how they recruit, retain and develop disabled people. As a Disability Confident organisation, we aim to offer a fair and proportionate number of person to person interviews to any candidate who self identifies as disabled and meets the essential criteria for the role. This is our 'Offer of Interview' (OOI). The following essential criteria will be assessed at sift. To secure an interview for this vacancy, candidates must meet these criteria to be considered for interview (in order of the application process); You will be required to reach the minimum pass mark for the online Situational Judgement Test (SJT), which assesses criteria important for all roles in our organisation Registration as an HCPC Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical or Principal Level) Demonstrate the ability to lead services, functions, and programmes of work at a senior level Demonstrate the ability to navigate complex high stakes organisational environments using psychological expertise . click apply for full job details
MI5 is looking for a Head of Corporate Psychology to provide strategic direction and develop psychological services supporting organizational growth in Cheltenham. This leadership role will require engaging with senior leaders, ensuring quality psychological advice, and driving significant organizational impact. The ideal candidate will be an HCPC-registered Practitioner Psychologist with substantial leadership experience, capable of navigating complex environments and effectively managing specialist teams.
Jul 30, 2026
Full time
MI5 is looking for a Head of Corporate Psychology to provide strategic direction and develop psychological services supporting organizational growth in Cheltenham. This leadership role will require engaging with senior leaders, ensuring quality psychological advice, and driving significant organizational impact. The ideal candidate will be an HCPC-registered Practitioner Psychologist with substantial leadership experience, capable of navigating complex environments and effectively managing specialist teams.
Salary:£86,795 to £99,529, comprising a basic salary starting from £83,651 and a Concessionary Payment of £3,144. We will offer a salary within this range that reflects your skills and experience. You may also be eligible for an Individual Recruitment Premium (IRP) of £6,469, depending on your experience and current pay and benefits. This payment is reviewed annually and is not guaranteed. Flexible working:We understand that everyone works differently, so we offer a range of flexible working options. These include full-time and part-time hours, with a minimum of four days per week, compressed hours, and flexible start and finish times. Due to the sensitive nature of the role, opportunities for home or remote working are limited. About us GCHQ is an intelligence, cyber and security agency with a mission to keep the UK safe. We use cutting-edge technology, ingenuity and partnerships to identify, analyse and disrupt threats. Working closely with our intelligence partners MI5 and MI6, we help protect the UK from terrorism, cyber-attacks and espionage. At GCHQ, you'll do varied and fascinating work in a supportive and inclusive environment that puts the emphasis on teamwork. The role As Head of Corporate Psychology, you'll set the long-term strategic direction and lead the delivery and continuous development of corporate psychology services, supporting the organisation through a period of growth and consolidation. You'll ensure services effectively enable organisational performance, people and priorities, operating at a senior level to provide expert psychological advice and assurance to leaders navigating complex organisational and workforce challenges. This is a high-profile leadership role, where you'll shape how psychological expertise is applied across areas such as vetting, wellbeing and recruitment. Working across multiple systems and agencies, you'll engage and influence senior internal and external stakeholders, building strong relationships to support effective decision-making. You'll operate within a fast-paced, often unpredictable environment, ensuring that practice remains responsive, proportionate and aligned with organisational risk. Operating with a high degree of autonomy, you'll lead a small team of specialist practitioner psychologists, providing coaching, professional leadership, ethical oversight and development. Accountability includes maintaining professional standards and ensuring the quality and impact of services, driving continuous improvement and compliant delivery across all areas of practice. Day to day, you'll contribute to complex, risk-based decision making, where ambiguity and uncertainty are common. This includes consultation on sensitive cases involving risk, security and staff wellbeing, applying sound judgement in challenging situations. Effective influencing skills, adaptability and the ability to build trust are critical to success. The scope of the role is broad, unique and highly stimulating, spanning strategic leadership, professional oversight and stakeholder engagement. As part of the wider senior leadership community, this role is pivotal in strengthening organisational capability, driving significant organisational impact, and shaping the ongoing evolution of corporate psychology in response to emerging challenges. About you You bring significant experience as a practitioner psychologist, applying psychological expertise within complex organisational environments. As an HCPC- registered Practitioner Psychologist, with a background in Clinical (Doctorate or equivalent) or Occupational Psychology, you operate with confidence and credibility at a senior level. This is underpinned by extensive post-registration experience, gained at Consultant (Clinical) or Principal (Occupational) level, alongside experience leading services, functions or programmes of work. You understand how to apply psychological expertise across organisational settings, whether through assessment, consultancy, intervention or service development, and are comfortable taking responsibility for high-impact, sensitive areas of work. You're an experienced leader, able to provide both professional and operational direction to specialist teams. Confident in managing and developing senior practitioners, you maintain high professional standards while supporting others to grow and succeed. You're also comfortable representing your function internally and externally, acting as a credible and authoritative voice for psychology, with significant organisational influence. With refined consultancy and influencing skills, you build effective relationships and advise senior stakeholders on complex, often sensitive issues. You balance professional rigour with pragmatism, applying evidence-based approaches while remaining responsive to organisational priorities and constraints. You're adaptable and thoughtful in your approach, able to operate effectively in environments shaped by uncertainty, change and competing demands. You exercise sound judgement, particularly where work involves risk, security or staff wellbeing, maintaining a firm commitment to professional ethics, integrity and continuous improvement. You demonstrate a clear commitment to promoting equity, inclusion and diversity through your leadership and professional practice, fostering an inclusive and respectful working environment. Training and development We're committed to supporting your ongoing development as a senior practitioner and leader, helping you sustain high-quality, ethical practice within a complex and evolving organisational environment. On joining, you'll receive a structured induction to the organisation and your team, giving you a clear understanding of how corporate psychology contributes to our mission. We offer access to a range of continuing professional development opportunities aligned to advanced practice and leadership. This includes peer networks, professional supervision where appropriate, and opportunities to connect with other psychology and behavioural science specialists across the organisation and the wider intelligence community. At this level, development is largely shaped through practice. Building expertise comes through leading strategic initiatives, advising senior stakeholders and helping to shape the future direction of corporate psychology. A key part of the role also involves developing others, supporting the growth of practitioner psychologists and strengthening capability across the function. You'll be encouraged to maintain your professional registration and stay current with evolving research, standards and best practice. Development may include specialist training, leadership programmes, and opportunities to contribute to cross-government or external professional forums. Progression at this level may be more limited in traditional terms, but there is potential to move into broader leadership roles over time. Future development pathways are continuing to evolve, reflecting both organisational need and the expanding role of psychology within this context. Rewards and benefits You'll receive a starting salary of £86,795 to £99,529, plus other benefits including: 25 days' annual leave, rising automatically to 30 days after 5 years' service, and an additional 10.5 days of public and privilege holidays. Previous NHS service will be recognised opportunities to be recognised through our employee performance scheme an interest free season ticket loan a cycle to work scheme facilities such as a gym, restaurant, and on site coffee bars at some locations paid parental and adoption leave Equal opportunities At GCHQ, diversity and inclusion are critical to our mission. To protect the UK, we need a truly diverse workforce that reflects the society we serve. This includes diversity in every sense of the word: people with different backgrounds, ages, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, ways of thinking, and those with disabilities or neurodivergent conditions. We therefore welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including those from groups that are underrepresented in our workforce, such as women, people from ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities, and those from low socio economic backgrounds. Find out more about our culture, working environment and diversity on our website. We're Disability Confident GCHQ is proud to have achieved Leader status within the Department for Work and Pensions Disability Confident scheme. This scheme aims to encourage employers to think differently about disability and take action to improve how they recruit, retain and develop disabled people. As a Disability Confident organisation, we aim to offer a fair and proportionate number of person to person interviews to any candidate who self identifies as disabled and meets the essential criteria for the role. This is our 'Offer of Interview' (OOI). The following essential criteria will be assessed at sift. To secure an interview for this vacancy, candidates must meet these criteria to be considered for interview (in order of the application process); You will be required to reach the minimum pass mark for the online Situational Judgement Test (SJT), which assesses criteria important for all roles in our organisation Registration as an HCPC Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical or Principal Level) Demonstrate the ability to lead services, functions, and programmes of work at a senior level Demonstrate the ability to navigate complex high stakes organisational environments using psychological expertise . click apply for full job details
Jul 30, 2026
Full time
Salary:£86,795 to £99,529, comprising a basic salary starting from £83,651 and a Concessionary Payment of £3,144. We will offer a salary within this range that reflects your skills and experience. You may also be eligible for an Individual Recruitment Premium (IRP) of £6,469, depending on your experience and current pay and benefits. This payment is reviewed annually and is not guaranteed. Flexible working:We understand that everyone works differently, so we offer a range of flexible working options. These include full-time and part-time hours, with a minimum of four days per week, compressed hours, and flexible start and finish times. Due to the sensitive nature of the role, opportunities for home or remote working are limited. About us GCHQ is an intelligence, cyber and security agency with a mission to keep the UK safe. We use cutting-edge technology, ingenuity and partnerships to identify, analyse and disrupt threats. Working closely with our intelligence partners MI5 and MI6, we help protect the UK from terrorism, cyber-attacks and espionage. At GCHQ, you'll do varied and fascinating work in a supportive and inclusive environment that puts the emphasis on teamwork. The role As Head of Corporate Psychology, you'll set the long-term strategic direction and lead the delivery and continuous development of corporate psychology services, supporting the organisation through a period of growth and consolidation. You'll ensure services effectively enable organisational performance, people and priorities, operating at a senior level to provide expert psychological advice and assurance to leaders navigating complex organisational and workforce challenges. This is a high-profile leadership role, where you'll shape how psychological expertise is applied across areas such as vetting, wellbeing and recruitment. Working across multiple systems and agencies, you'll engage and influence senior internal and external stakeholders, building strong relationships to support effective decision-making. You'll operate within a fast-paced, often unpredictable environment, ensuring that practice remains responsive, proportionate and aligned with organisational risk. Operating with a high degree of autonomy, you'll lead a small team of specialist practitioner psychologists, providing coaching, professional leadership, ethical oversight and development. Accountability includes maintaining professional standards and ensuring the quality and impact of services, driving continuous improvement and compliant delivery across all areas of practice. Day to day, you'll contribute to complex, risk-based decision making, where ambiguity and uncertainty are common. This includes consultation on sensitive cases involving risk, security and staff wellbeing, applying sound judgement in challenging situations. Effective influencing skills, adaptability and the ability to build trust are critical to success. The scope of the role is broad, unique and highly stimulating, spanning strategic leadership, professional oversight and stakeholder engagement. As part of the wider senior leadership community, this role is pivotal in strengthening organisational capability, driving significant organisational impact, and shaping the ongoing evolution of corporate psychology in response to emerging challenges. About you You bring significant experience as a practitioner psychologist, applying psychological expertise within complex organisational environments. As an HCPC- registered Practitioner Psychologist, with a background in Clinical (Doctorate or equivalent) or Occupational Psychology, you operate with confidence and credibility at a senior level. This is underpinned by extensive post-registration experience, gained at Consultant (Clinical) or Principal (Occupational) level, alongside experience leading services, functions or programmes of work. You understand how to apply psychological expertise across organisational settings, whether through assessment, consultancy, intervention or service development, and are comfortable taking responsibility for high-impact, sensitive areas of work. You're an experienced leader, able to provide both professional and operational direction to specialist teams. Confident in managing and developing senior practitioners, you maintain high professional standards while supporting others to grow and succeed. You're also comfortable representing your function internally and externally, acting as a credible and authoritative voice for psychology, with significant organisational influence. With refined consultancy and influencing skills, you build effective relationships and advise senior stakeholders on complex, often sensitive issues. You balance professional rigour with pragmatism, applying evidence-based approaches while remaining responsive to organisational priorities and constraints. You're adaptable and thoughtful in your approach, able to operate effectively in environments shaped by uncertainty, change and competing demands. You exercise sound judgement, particularly where work involves risk, security or staff wellbeing, maintaining a firm commitment to professional ethics, integrity and continuous improvement. You demonstrate a clear commitment to promoting equity, inclusion and diversity through your leadership and professional practice, fostering an inclusive and respectful working environment. Training and development We're committed to supporting your ongoing development as a senior practitioner and leader, helping you sustain high-quality, ethical practice within a complex and evolving organisational environment. On joining, you'll receive a structured induction to the organisation and your team, giving you a clear understanding of how corporate psychology contributes to our mission. We offer access to a range of continuing professional development opportunities aligned to advanced practice and leadership. This includes peer networks, professional supervision where appropriate, and opportunities to connect with other psychology and behavioural science specialists across the organisation and the wider intelligence community. At this level, development is largely shaped through practice. Building expertise comes through leading strategic initiatives, advising senior stakeholders and helping to shape the future direction of corporate psychology. A key part of the role also involves developing others, supporting the growth of practitioner psychologists and strengthening capability across the function. You'll be encouraged to maintain your professional registration and stay current with evolving research, standards and best practice. Development may include specialist training, leadership programmes, and opportunities to contribute to cross-government or external professional forums. Progression at this level may be more limited in traditional terms, but there is potential to move into broader leadership roles over time. Future development pathways are continuing to evolve, reflecting both organisational need and the expanding role of psychology within this context. Rewards and benefits You'll receive a starting salary of £86,795 to £99,529, plus other benefits including: 25 days' annual leave, rising automatically to 30 days after 5 years' service, and an additional 10.5 days of public and privilege holidays. Previous NHS service will be recognised opportunities to be recognised through our employee performance scheme an interest free season ticket loan a cycle to work scheme facilities such as a gym, restaurant, and on site coffee bars at some locations paid parental and adoption leave Equal opportunities At GCHQ, diversity and inclusion are critical to our mission. To protect the UK, we need a truly diverse workforce that reflects the society we serve. This includes diversity in every sense of the word: people with different backgrounds, ages, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, ways of thinking, and those with disabilities or neurodivergent conditions. We therefore welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including those from groups that are underrepresented in our workforce, such as women, people from ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities, and those from low socio economic backgrounds. Find out more about our culture, working environment and diversity on our website. We're Disability Confident GCHQ is proud to have achieved Leader status within the Department for Work and Pensions Disability Confident scheme. This scheme aims to encourage employers to think differently about disability and take action to improve how they recruit, retain and develop disabled people. As a Disability Confident organisation, we aim to offer a fair and proportionate number of person to person interviews to any candidate who self identifies as disabled and meets the essential criteria for the role. This is our 'Offer of Interview' (OOI). The following essential criteria will be assessed at sift. To secure an interview for this vacancy, candidates must meet these criteria to be considered for interview (in order of the application process); You will be required to reach the minimum pass mark for the online Situational Judgement Test (SJT), which assesses criteria important for all roles in our organisation Registration as an HCPC Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical or Principal Level) Demonstrate the ability to lead services, functions, and programmes of work at a senior level Demonstrate the ability to navigate complex high stakes organisational environments using psychological expertise . click apply for full job details
MI5 is looking for a Head of Corporate Psychology to provide strategic direction and develop psychological services supporting organizational growth in Cheltenham. This leadership role will require engaging with senior leaders, ensuring quality psychological advice, and driving significant organizational impact. The ideal candidate will be an HCPC-registered Practitioner Psychologist with substantial leadership experience, capable of navigating complex environments and effectively managing specialist teams.
Jul 30, 2026
Full time
MI5 is looking for a Head of Corporate Psychology to provide strategic direction and develop psychological services supporting organizational growth in Cheltenham. This leadership role will require engaging with senior leaders, ensuring quality psychological advice, and driving significant organizational impact. The ideal candidate will be an HCPC-registered Practitioner Psychologist with substantial leadership experience, capable of navigating complex environments and effectively managing specialist teams.
MI5 is seeking a Technical Risk Adviser to apply technical expertise in cyber security to support operational teams. You'll assess risks and opportunities for technology use within the national security context. The role offers a salary between £80,875 and £94,754 in London, alongside comprehensive training and development opportunities. Ideal candidates should have a strong background in cyber security, including experience in network engineering and incident response.
Jul 09, 2026
Full time
MI5 is seeking a Technical Risk Adviser to apply technical expertise in cyber security to support operational teams. You'll assess risks and opportunities for technology use within the national security context. The role offers a salary between £80,875 and £94,754 in London, alongside comprehensive training and development opportunities. Ideal candidates should have a strong background in cyber security, including experience in network engineering and incident response.
Flexible working: this role is primarily office-based due to the secure nature of the work, with limited opportunities for home working. Full-time roles are based on a 36-hour week, Monday to Friday. Flexitime, compressed or part-time hours may be possible, but only after the induction period where full-time attendance is required. Travel to UK sites should be expected, with occasional international travel subject to business needs. As MI5 s protective security arm, The National Protective Security Authority (NPSA) is the UK s National Technical Authority for physical and personnel security. We protect the UK s critical national infrastructure, government and other high risk sensitive sectors from threats most people will never consider. This includes advising on safety in high footfall areas, countering hostile drone activity and mitigating explosive or chemical risks. In short, we research, design and shape the systems that keep the UK resilient. And now, you can join us. Our Protective Security Development Programme (PSDP) is a brand new, three-year initiative designed take you from STEM graduate to Protective Security Specialist within one of our technical research and development (R&D) teams. Protective Security Specialists analyse evolving threats, develop evidence-based protective security solutions, and provide expert guidance to organisations. Analytical, collaborative and keen to learn, you ll help solve complex problems, work with friendly, expert teams and shape key decision-making. Over the course of the programme, you will: complete multiple four-month rotations between different teams and disciplines within NPSA, giving you a broad understanding of our work and the challenges we face grow your technical knowledge in specific areas related to physical protective security apply your new skills and learnings in technical and operational environments, including UK-wide site visits spend your final year embedded with an R&D team aligned to your strengths (and our business needs), contributing to larger, more intricate projects. By the end, you ll be ready to join us full time as a fully-trained Protective Security Specialist responsible for key projects in your chosen field. Please note, this is dependent on business need and whether you ve met the competency and capability requirements for the role. To apply, you ll need to be either a final-year student (graduating in 2026) or already graduated with a degree in a science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) subject, or a related field such as blast design engineering. Or, you could be a STEM apprentice at Level 6 or 7. Either way, you ll have considerable scientific understanding in your chosen field and knowledge of different research methods. Continuous learning and development is vital to what we do. As this is a development programme, you ll be assigned a mentor and get extensive in-person and virtual training as part of the role, including formal training, e-learning, independent study and event attendance. Plus, you ll be encouraged to pursue external training and gain qualifications, professional memberships and charterships relevant to your chosen discipline. You ll also receive benefits including 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 days after 5 years' service, alongside 8 bank holidays and 2.5 additional leave days (set dates through the year). We also offer an excellent pension scheme, an interest-free season ticket loan, and much more. To protect the UK, we need a truly diverse workforce that reflects the society we serve. We welcome and encourage applications from all individuals, particularly those who are currently under-represented in our workforce, such as those from an ethnic minority background, women, people with disabilities or neurodivergent conditions, and those from low socio-economic backgrounds. This is part of our commitment to building a culture that is welcoming and inclusive of people with different identities, lived experiences, and perspectives, and where everyone has the confidence to bring their whole self to work. To find out more about the PSDP and to apply, please visit our website by clicking the APPLY button. At MI5, diversity and inclusion are essential to our mission. To protect the UK, we need a truly diverse workforce that reflects the society we serve including different identities, backgrounds, lived experiences and ways of thinking. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, particularly those currently under represented in our workforce, such as ethnic minority candidates, women, people with disabilities or neurodivergent conditions, and those from lower socio economic backgrounds . Find out more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion . To be eligible to apply, you must be a British Citizen. If you hold dual nationality, of which one component is British, you will nonetheless be considered. Candidates must normally have been resident in the UK for seven out of the last ten years. This is particularly important if you were born outside the UK. You can apply at the age of 17 years, if successful you will not be offered a start date prior to your 18th birthday. Read more on our eligibility criteria.
May 19, 2026
Full time
Flexible working: this role is primarily office-based due to the secure nature of the work, with limited opportunities for home working. Full-time roles are based on a 36-hour week, Monday to Friday. Flexitime, compressed or part-time hours may be possible, but only after the induction period where full-time attendance is required. Travel to UK sites should be expected, with occasional international travel subject to business needs. As MI5 s protective security arm, The National Protective Security Authority (NPSA) is the UK s National Technical Authority for physical and personnel security. We protect the UK s critical national infrastructure, government and other high risk sensitive sectors from threats most people will never consider. This includes advising on safety in high footfall areas, countering hostile drone activity and mitigating explosive or chemical risks. In short, we research, design and shape the systems that keep the UK resilient. And now, you can join us. Our Protective Security Development Programme (PSDP) is a brand new, three-year initiative designed take you from STEM graduate to Protective Security Specialist within one of our technical research and development (R&D) teams. Protective Security Specialists analyse evolving threats, develop evidence-based protective security solutions, and provide expert guidance to organisations. Analytical, collaborative and keen to learn, you ll help solve complex problems, work with friendly, expert teams and shape key decision-making. Over the course of the programme, you will: complete multiple four-month rotations between different teams and disciplines within NPSA, giving you a broad understanding of our work and the challenges we face grow your technical knowledge in specific areas related to physical protective security apply your new skills and learnings in technical and operational environments, including UK-wide site visits spend your final year embedded with an R&D team aligned to your strengths (and our business needs), contributing to larger, more intricate projects. By the end, you ll be ready to join us full time as a fully-trained Protective Security Specialist responsible for key projects in your chosen field. Please note, this is dependent on business need and whether you ve met the competency and capability requirements for the role. To apply, you ll need to be either a final-year student (graduating in 2026) or already graduated with a degree in a science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) subject, or a related field such as blast design engineering. Or, you could be a STEM apprentice at Level 6 or 7. Either way, you ll have considerable scientific understanding in your chosen field and knowledge of different research methods. Continuous learning and development is vital to what we do. As this is a development programme, you ll be assigned a mentor and get extensive in-person and virtual training as part of the role, including formal training, e-learning, independent study and event attendance. Plus, you ll be encouraged to pursue external training and gain qualifications, professional memberships and charterships relevant to your chosen discipline. You ll also receive benefits including 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 days after 5 years' service, alongside 8 bank holidays and 2.5 additional leave days (set dates through the year). We also offer an excellent pension scheme, an interest-free season ticket loan, and much more. To protect the UK, we need a truly diverse workforce that reflects the society we serve. We welcome and encourage applications from all individuals, particularly those who are currently under-represented in our workforce, such as those from an ethnic minority background, women, people with disabilities or neurodivergent conditions, and those from low socio-economic backgrounds. This is part of our commitment to building a culture that is welcoming and inclusive of people with different identities, lived experiences, and perspectives, and where everyone has the confidence to bring their whole self to work. To find out more about the PSDP and to apply, please visit our website by clicking the APPLY button. At MI5, diversity and inclusion are essential to our mission. To protect the UK, we need a truly diverse workforce that reflects the society we serve including different identities, backgrounds, lived experiences and ways of thinking. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, particularly those currently under represented in our workforce, such as ethnic minority candidates, women, people with disabilities or neurodivergent conditions, and those from lower socio economic backgrounds . Find out more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion . To be eligible to apply, you must be a British Citizen. If you hold dual nationality, of which one component is British, you will nonetheless be considered. Candidates must normally have been resident in the UK for seven out of the last ten years. This is particularly important if you were born outside the UK. You can apply at the age of 17 years, if successful you will not be offered a start date prior to your 18th birthday. Read more on our eligibility criteria.
Trainee Finance Officer Cheltenham £28,685 Earn a salary or study for a qualification? Choose both. MI5 keeps the country safe from serious threats like terrorism and attempts by states to harm the UK, its people and way of life. We carry out investigations by obtaining, analysing, and assessing intelligence, and then work with a range of partners including MI6 and GCHQ to disrupt these threats. Through our protective security arm, we provide advice and guidance to government, businesses and other organisations about how to keep themselves safe. A role in MI5 means you ll do unique and challenging work in a supportive and encouraging environment, making a real different to UK national security. On this structured development pathway, with a blend of classroom-based study and on-the-job learning, you ll have everything you need to build a successful career in finance. And you ll do it all while getting unique exposure to the financial functions at the UK s Intelligence Services. It s a unique job that s full and varied, doing work that you simply can t do anywhere else. Over three years, you'll be supported as you work towards and achieve an Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) qualification, all while contributing to the finance function across our finance teams. But you won t do it alone. With a team of other trainees, a dedicated mentor and a buddy with experience of studying the AAT, you ll have great support from day one. And when you finish the scheme, we ll help you decide your next step. There ll be opportunities for promotions, or you can go on to become a Certified Chartered Accountant. With plenty of training and further development opportunities available, you ll have plenty of choice to create your ideal career in finance. So what about you? You ll already have GCSEs in English and Maths at A-C/9-4 (or equivalent), and experience with Microsoft Word and Excel. Whatever your background, you ll be adaptable, motivated and collaborative, a naturally inquisitive problem solver with numerical skills, a passion for developing a career in finance and an enthusiasm for working with, and learning from, others. You ll bring integrity, respect and creativity to your work, helping us deliver a positive impact across the UK. You don t need to be a certain type of person to work here: we need all kinds of people from all kinds of backgrounds to protect the UK. That means we value your individuality and what makes you, you. Please note that if you have already started or completed the AAT qualification, we think you'll be better suited to other roles within our Finance team. To be notified of any upcoming opportunities, we recommend you sign up to job alerts on our website. To apply, please visit our website. At MI5 diversity and inclusion are critical to our mission. We therefore welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including those from groups that are under-represented in our workforce such as women, those from an ethnic minority background, people with disabilities and those from low socio-economic backgrounds. Find out more about our culture, working environment and diversity on our website. To be eligible to apply, you must be a British Citizen. If you hold dual nationality, of which one component is British, you will nonetheless be considered. Candidates must normally have been resident in the UK for seven out of the last ten years. This is particularly important if you were born outside the UK. You can apply at the age of 17 years, if successful you will not be offered a start date prior to your 18th birthday. Full eligibility details can be found on our website.
May 05, 2026
Full time
Trainee Finance Officer Cheltenham £28,685 Earn a salary or study for a qualification? Choose both. MI5 keeps the country safe from serious threats like terrorism and attempts by states to harm the UK, its people and way of life. We carry out investigations by obtaining, analysing, and assessing intelligence, and then work with a range of partners including MI6 and GCHQ to disrupt these threats. Through our protective security arm, we provide advice and guidance to government, businesses and other organisations about how to keep themselves safe. A role in MI5 means you ll do unique and challenging work in a supportive and encouraging environment, making a real different to UK national security. On this structured development pathway, with a blend of classroom-based study and on-the-job learning, you ll have everything you need to build a successful career in finance. And you ll do it all while getting unique exposure to the financial functions at the UK s Intelligence Services. It s a unique job that s full and varied, doing work that you simply can t do anywhere else. Over three years, you'll be supported as you work towards and achieve an Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) qualification, all while contributing to the finance function across our finance teams. But you won t do it alone. With a team of other trainees, a dedicated mentor and a buddy with experience of studying the AAT, you ll have great support from day one. And when you finish the scheme, we ll help you decide your next step. There ll be opportunities for promotions, or you can go on to become a Certified Chartered Accountant. With plenty of training and further development opportunities available, you ll have plenty of choice to create your ideal career in finance. So what about you? You ll already have GCSEs in English and Maths at A-C/9-4 (or equivalent), and experience with Microsoft Word and Excel. Whatever your background, you ll be adaptable, motivated and collaborative, a naturally inquisitive problem solver with numerical skills, a passion for developing a career in finance and an enthusiasm for working with, and learning from, others. You ll bring integrity, respect and creativity to your work, helping us deliver a positive impact across the UK. You don t need to be a certain type of person to work here: we need all kinds of people from all kinds of backgrounds to protect the UK. That means we value your individuality and what makes you, you. Please note that if you have already started or completed the AAT qualification, we think you'll be better suited to other roles within our Finance team. To be notified of any upcoming opportunities, we recommend you sign up to job alerts on our website. To apply, please visit our website. At MI5 diversity and inclusion are critical to our mission. We therefore welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including those from groups that are under-represented in our workforce such as women, those from an ethnic minority background, people with disabilities and those from low socio-economic backgrounds. Find out more about our culture, working environment and diversity on our website. To be eligible to apply, you must be a British Citizen. If you hold dual nationality, of which one component is British, you will nonetheless be considered. Candidates must normally have been resident in the UK for seven out of the last ten years. This is particularly important if you were born outside the UK. You can apply at the age of 17 years, if successful you will not be offered a start date prior to your 18th birthday. Full eligibility details can be found on our website.
