Corporate risk management officer

Job overview

The postholder will support the associate director of communications and corporate governance and head of corporate assurance with oversight of the organisational risk registers and to work closely with corporate and clinical directorates to ensure a proactive approach to risk management and corporate governance.

Main duties of the job

• The postholder will work collaboratively with all directorates and teams to drive best practice governance, risk and assurance practices across the
• rganisation by championing established frameworks and methodologies. They will ensure implementation of recommendations from all auditors and regulators where they relate to risk and compliance (where required in support of the head of corporate assurance) providing assurance and ensuring any areas of concern are aligned with the risk management framework.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Principal Duties:

• Promote a positive governance culture within the Trust, utilising a range of communication and engagement techniques to raise awareness and encourage involvement.
• Support the head of corporate assurance on the maintenance of the corporate risk register and Trust-wide registers.
• Support the head of corporate assurance in ensuring all divisions and directorates develop and implement local risk management and governance practices.
• Act as responsible officer for the Trust's risk management framework, including leading the development of the strategy and providing training to others as required.
• Coordinate the updating of the Trust's risk register, ensuring risk owners are aware of the need to provide updates and providing guidance and advice to colleagues, including executive directors, on risk assessment and scoring, and the completion of risk updates on the various registers.
• Support staff to understand the requirements around applying risk appetite and scoring when updating the risk registers.
• Provide support in the coordination of the updating of the Trust's board assurance framework, including advising executive directors on pertinent information for inclusion and highlighting concerns or risks that require attention.
• Devise and provide risk management training to an agreed training analysis that includes members of divisional management teams and corporate functions to ensure that the risk management system is understood and implemented effectively.
• Support the head of corporate assurance in the review, development and implementation of the Trust risk management framework including support with training and understanding.
• Monitor compliance with the risk management framework, policy and procedure by devising a rolling audit programme and support the annual review by the Trust's internal auditors.
• Provide suitable reports on the risk management system and the risks managed within it to agreed schedules/annual cycles.
• Provide advice and support to all staff on risk management.
• Actively engage and work collaboratively with colleagues at all levels of the organisation to understand the barriers to effective governance and risk management, work to overcome them and promote a positive reporting culture.  As part of this, attend and participate in corporate, division, directorate, specialty and other meetings as required.
• Work with colleagues in clinical governance functions to ensure the provision of high quality, comprehensive and coordinated risk governance arrangements across the Trust.
• Support the development, implementation and maintenance of relevant policies and standards operating procedures in own area.
• Ensure consistent use of Trust risk register templates and lead on the transfer of manual risk registers to electronic risk registers (Ulysses) as and when required.
• Support the head of corporate assurance in the effective roll out of risk and governance functions acting as a deputy in their absence.

Communications and relationships

• To maintain effective internal and external communications as required to enable strong networks and partnerships to promote the interests of the Trust in relation to governance and risk management.
• Provide regular reporting to Trust Board and its committees, on the corporate risk register, developing processes and reporting as necessary to meet the assurance requirements of Board members.
• Conduct regular meetings with executives, senior managers, department heads of service and staff across the organisation to provide advice on governance, risk registers, assessment and categorisation of risks, and controls to reduce risks.
• Engage with those who are managing risk and co-ordinating risk management activities to ensure sufficient rigour and compliance with the Trust risk management system and the escalation of risks.
• Produce training materials and facilitate risk management training that is accessible to staff across the organisation.
• To deputise for the head of corporate assurance at Trust committees and groups to support the delivery of governance functions.

The job description is not comprehensive but contains main responsibilities and functions of the post. Other reasonable duties may be required, in accordance with departmental need.