# Risk and Policy Manager > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/risk-and-policy-manager/b0abc7ca-3466-4538-a341-4fb7eb23f555 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/risk-and-policy-manager/b0abc7ca-3466-4538-a341-4fb7eb23f555.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB - **Location:** Omega House - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Manager and corporate - **Salary:** £57528.00 to £64750.00 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-08-31T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-10T12:09:32.401Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8218227 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8218227?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.hantsiow.icb.nhs.uk/ ## Job Content ### Job overview Please note this organisation does not hold a sponsorship licence, we regret to inform you that we are unable to consider applications from individuals who require sponsorship. We are seeking an experienced and knowledgeable Risk and Policy Manager to join the Governance Team. The postholder will report into the Director of Governance and will support the Executive team, risk owners and teams across the organisation with the implementation of the risk management framework. The individual will need to be highly motivated, have a good understanding of and practical experience in risk management and be able to lead the risk management portfolio as the organisation looks to develop its risk management arrangements and broaden these to shared arrangements across our system. For questions about the role, contact Helen Potton, Director of Governance at helen.potton2@nhs.net ### Main duties of the job The Risk and Policy Manager manages and champions the risk management processes across the Integrated Care Board, supporting colleagues at all levels of the organisation to embed the processes in practice. This includes designing, advising on and implementing the risk management framework, maintaining the Board Assurance Framework, undertaking risk reviews, generating risk reports for the Executive and the Board of Directors and providing specialist training on risk. They will also have responsibility for our corporate policies. This is a full-time post and hybrid working. The postholder will actively promote a culture that encourages staff to take risk-based actions and to consider risk and its impact in all key decisions. This individual will need to be able to proactively develop and implement effective risk management systems and processes and review them to ensure continuous improvement and responsiveness to organisational need. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see the job description for further information in regard to the responsibilities of the role. ## Person Specification ### Emotional Effort **Essential** - Operates with empathy and emotional intelligence. ### Working conditions **Essential** - Ability to work in a busy open plan office environment, in a changing environment. - Ability to travel between office locations in Hampshire and Isle of Wight, and other locations as required. ### Autonomy/ Freedom to Act **Essential** - Ability to work on own initiative and proactively organise own workload without supervision, guided by principles and organisational policies, working to tight and frequently changing timescales - Flexible and adaptable, to ensure service needs are met, balancing operational and strategic needs - Adhere to confidentiality requirements ### Knowledge, Training and Experience **Essential** - Educated to Masters degree level or equivalent qualification or equivalent experience. - Governance qualification or experience - Able to present information and reports in an accurate and confident manner to the Board of Directors, Executive team and all levels of the organization, deliver presentations and run workshops. - Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages. - Experience of operating in a complex organisation, leading on a portfolio area and building credible relationships across an organisation **Desirable** - Risk management qualification - Training qualification or experience - A good understanding of the health and social care environment and the roles and responsibilities within it and the NHS generally - Experience/knowledge of risk management software, particularly Datix - Statistical analysis - Experience of minute taking ### Planning and Organisational Skills **Essential** - Effective organiser, planning ahead to meet deadlines and balance competing priorities - Project management skills - Professional, calm and efficient manner - Attention to detail and accuracy ### Communication and relationship skills **Essential** - Ability to motivate and enthuse others about risk management - Excellent communication skills, to produce and present reports including the presentation of data ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 456.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10526417) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.