About this role
Physical Security Assurance Lead
📍 London | 💼 Contract (12 months initial) | 🔐 SC Clearance Required
💷 £450 –£550 per day (Inside IR35) | ✅ Extension potential
💼 Why this role stands out
- Lead security assurance across a major UK government estate
- Work on a 12-month contract with strong likelihood of extension
- Influence multi-site security strategy, compliance & resilience
- Engage directly with senior stakeholders and suppliers
- Join a programme driving government transformation & modern workplaces
🔑 What you’ll be doing
- Conduct security audits, risk assessments, and compliance reviews
- Provide expert physical security advice and incident support
- Identify vulnerabilities and drive practical mitigation solutions
- Lead supplier assurance, audits, and tabletop exercises
- Act as a key liaison across departments and partners
🎯 What we’re looking for
Experience in
- Security assurance, audits, or compliance
- Multi-site or multi-client environments
- Stakeholder and supplier management
- Risk assessment and incident response
Security qualifications or professional memberships are desirable (or willingness to work toward them).
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About security roles for ex-police
Security management, operations and consultancy roles. Years of operational policing — command, incident response, public order — translate directly into corporate security, and employers in this sector actively rate police experience.
See all security jobs in Manchester →Why this fits a police background — match score 85/100
- Incident command & response
- Risk & threat assessment
- Working to legislation & regulation
- Security operations
What security roles pay ex-police
Advertised UK ranges, editorial estimates reviewed July 2026
| Security officer (SIA) | £24,000–£29,000 |
| Security supervisor / team leader | £28,000–£34,000 |
| Site / security manager | £38,000–£52,000 |
| Regional / operations security manager | £50,000–£65,000 |