Passes and Permit Clerk

Babcock is seeking a Clerk for Passes and Permits at their RAF High Wycombe site in Buckinghamshire. The role involves creating and managing individual and group passes for events, ensuring compliance with security clearances and GDPR regulations. The successful candidate should have experience in a customer-focused environment, be proficient in Microsoft Office, and be able to meet strict deadlines. The position offers a full-time contract with a competitive salary and benefits, including a generous holiday allowance and a matched contribution pension scheme. Security clearance is required for this role.

Passes and Permit Clerk
Location:
High Wycombe, GB, HP14 4UE
Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite
Job Title: Clerk – Passes and Permits
Location: High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
Compensation: £25,493.00
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF64183
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Clerk at our RAF High Wycombe site.
The role
As a Clerk, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. The successful candidate will be responsible for the creation and administration of individual and group passes for large scale events and high-profile visits whilst ensuring personnel have the correct personnel clearances in place prior to the issue of passes.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:
• Issue permanent passes and permits – including aiding and guidance on pass application process and the issue of temporary passes when required by guardroom staff
• Control and secure the custody of passes and permits prior to issue – blank security forms are Unclassified. Blank ID cards are to be treated as Sensitive documents and safeguarded in accordance with JSP440. . (Military Policy control entrance policy – Joint service publication)
• Carry out completion checks before issuing pass/permit to the recipient – including all relevant security checks following strict GDPR regulations
• Collate of any required documentation for the completion of Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) vetting of passes and permits for dependants, contractors, and social personnel – ensure correct completion of all documentation.
This role is full time and based onsite at RAF High Wycombe.
Essential experience of the Clerk:
• Evidence of working in a dynamic, customer focused environment
• Experience of working in a position with time restricted deadlines.
• Experienced in the use of Microsoft Office.
• Previous experience of working within an environment with GDPR requirements.
Qualifications for the Clerk:
We value difference and we don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels – GOV.UK ( ).
What we offer
• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day’s paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing date: 20/06/2026
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