Deputy Risk and Governance Manager

Overview

As a Risk and Governance Manager, you will lead the risk and incident management strategy across the division to safeguard patient safety and governance. You will partner with clinical and governance teams to design and implement risk controls, maintain the risk register, and coordinate serious incident investigations. You will mentor staff through risk governance training and ensure lessons learned are embedded to improve care. This role supports the Assistant Director and drives continuous quality improvement in a large NHS Trust.

Pay / Benefits

• Flexible working

Responsibilities

• Produce risk reports for divisional/organizational meetings and sub-committees
• Establish structures for assessment, analysis, prioritisation and control of clinical risks
• Manage, maintain and update the risk register and coordinate Central Alerting System responses
• Provide expert risk management advice
• Oversee annual risk/governance training for staff and managers
• Be the point of contact for reporting serious incidents and hub for internal reporting
• Support investigations of serious incidents in line with PSIRF Framework
• Ensure lessons learned are captured and mitigations implemented

Key requirements

• Master level education or equivalent experience
• Extensive risk/governance experience
• Experience advising staff and liaising at all organizational levels
• Project management experience
• Experience producing complex incident and risk management intelligence
• Knowledge of PSIRF
• Experience writing strategies, policies and procedures
• Strong report-writing ability for local management levels
• Ability to analyse complex information and produce concise briefings
• Experience with clinical teams and clinical audit
• Experience handling confidential/sensitive information
• On-the-job NHS risk and incident management experience with quality improvement/change management
• Desirable: clinical or risk management qualification

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Analytical and interpretive skills
• Negotiation and influencing abilities
• PowerPoint
• Excel
• Word

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