Deputy Risk and Governance Manager

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Winwick; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a senior professional to lead risk and governance activities across a division, ensuring safe patient care and robust risk management. The role focuses on incident reporting, risk registers, and governance processes to support operational and clinical teams.

The post holder will coordinate risk management strategy, provide expert guidance on risk principles, and liaise with governance groups.

Qualifications

• Experience in governance and risk management within healthcare
• Ability to produce risk reports and oversee risk registers
• Skilled in coordinating investigations and sharing lessons learned

Responsibilities

• Produce risk reports to support divisional meetings and risk reporting
• Ensure structures for assessment, analysis, prioritisation and control of clinical risks
• Oversee risk register maintenance and timely responses to alerts
• Lead investigations into serious incidents and ensure adherence to PSIRF frameworks

Skills

Risk management

Governance

Incident reporting

Stakeholder engagement

Job description

Responsible for all aspects of management in the following areas, including training and policy/procedure development to ensure compliance for Patient Safety risk management, and incident reporting. To provide an expert resource to clinical teams, managers and governance/quality groups in the planning, design and implementation of risk and governance initiatives. To deputies for the Assistant Director of Governance and Compliance and to lead on specific areas of work as delegated by them. To manage all risks associated with the Division including adverse events and risk management. To ensure delivery of designated areas incorporating establishment of systems and processes. To work closely with operational and clinical teams and governance/quality teams to coordinate and deliverer a robust governance model that supports the delivery of high quality, safe and effective patient care across the Trust.

The post holder will ensure the delivery of the risk/incident management quality strategy within the designated area incorporating establishment of systems and processes. The post holder will support the Assistant Director of Governance and Compliance Risk and operational leads, in the management of all risks associated with the Division including adverse events, serious incidents and risk management and act as a key member of the patient safety team supporting the business and service delivery of the division/Trust.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Produce risk reports to support divisional and organisational meetings / groups/ sub committees risk reporting. Ensure there are structures and systematic processes for the assessment, analysis, prioritisation and control of clinical risks. Ensure systems and processes are in place to manage, maintain and update the risk register. To oversee implementation and monitoring of risk register, and co-ordinate timely responses to the Central Alerting System. Provide expert advice on risk management principles. Oversee and implement an annual programme of essential risk/governance training for all staff and managers. To be the point of contact for reporting serious incidents - acting as the hub for internal reporting. Support oversight coordination of investigations of serious incidents in line with PSIRF Framework. Ensure that lessons are learned by ensuring that mitigating actions as the result of incidents are recorded, maintained and implemented.