Are you ready to shape the future of security and policing across one of the UK’s busiest rail networks?
We’re seeking a Head of Policing and Security Strategy to join our Safety, Planning and Performance leadership team, based at our Head Office in London bridge (hybrid working – 3 days on site).
At Southern, the safety of our colleagues and customers comes first. This role plays a critical part in ensuring our railway is a place where people feel safe, supported and confident to travel – today and into the future.
Can you move people? Apply now.
What you’ll do
In this role, your purpose is clear: to create and deliver an integrated, intelligence-led security and policing strategy that protects our people, our customers and our railway.
You will shape how Southern prevents, deters and responds to crime, antisocial behaviour, safeguarding risks and security threats – ensuring we have the right operating model, capability and partnerships in place to keep our network safe.
Working closely with the British Transport Police and wider policing and security partners, you will lead the development of modern, collaborative approaches to security and policing that strengthen frontline response, support our colleagues, and build confidence across our communities.
This is a strategic leadership role with real influence – setting direction, aligning teams behind a shared purpose, and ensuring security, safeguarding and policing are fully integrated into how we operate our railway.
The experience you’ll need
We encourage you to demonstrate how ‘your talents’ align with the below in your application:
* Security leadership – you design and lead operating models that protect people and assets
* Safe colleagues and customers – you put systems, assurance and partnerships in place to keep everyone safe
* Operational integration – you align security, safeguarding, frontline operations and policing into a single, joined‑up approach
* Risk and threat management – you ensure robust arrangements to identify, assess and mitigate crime and security risks
* Partnership excellence – you build trusted, proactive relationships with BTP, the Home Office, local policing and industry partners
* Visible leadership – you unite teams around a shared commitment to safety, every time
As proud members of the Armed Forces Covenant and Disability Confident Scheme, we will offer you an interview if you apply under these schemes and meet the minimum criteria for the role. Find out more.
Other things to know
* This vacancy may close early if we receive a large number of applications. So, make sure you get yours in early.
* All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory references, a right to work verification, a basic criminal record check, and a pre‑employment medical assessment. Work visa sponsorship isn’t available for this role.
* If you applied but weren’t successful in getting a similar role at Southern, please wait six months before applying again.
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What you’ll get in return
Along with your salary, the rewards you’ll get include:
* a final salary pension
* 25 days annual leave allowance (plus bank holidays)
* free rail travel across our networks.
Meaning you can feel secure in your career as well as fulfilled by your work. Click here to see our full range of amazing benefits.
A bit about Southern
We’re one of Britain’s busiest train operators, serving London, Kent and parts of East Sussex. We run over 1,700 trains a day, carrying more than 500,000 passengers and serving 180 stations.
However, working on our railway is more than getting passengers from A to B. It’s about all the little moments that make a difference to their journey.
It’s also about making our railway a great place to work. With a team that represents the communities we serve, this is a journey we’re fully committed to and we’re proud to have been named a ‘Great Place to Work’ at the 2023 National Rail Awards and endorsed as a WORK180 Employer for Women.
Our ways of working are what we expect of everyone at Southern. They are powerful. Tiny moments, every day, from every one of us, add up to massive, positive change. Improving how it feels to work here and how it feels to travel with us.
At the heart of everything we do, our Safeguarding Team works to keep our customers, colleagues, and the public safe by improving safeguarding measures and knowledge making sure everyone gets home safe, every day.
Learn more about our railway.
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