Interim Risk & Policy Manager

Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A specialist mental health trust in Westminster seeks an experienced Governance professional to join their Corporate Governance Team. The successful candidate will lead risk management initiatives, develop performance indicators, and support policy assurance. This role requires strong organizational and communication skills, offering a hybrid work model with flexibility. If you are passionate about improving mental health services and governance, we encourage you to apply.

Qualifications

• Experience in Risk Management and Governance.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work with diverse teams.
• Strong organisational and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation of the risk management framework.
• Develop and monitor key performance indicators for Risk Management.
• Ensure policy development follows guidelines and engages stakeholders.

Skills

Risk Management

Organisational skills

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Job description

Overview

We encourage and support staff to get COVID-19 vaccine and a booster dose as and when they are eligible. Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our third party recruitment providers - North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults. We are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them. We bring a distinctive contribution based on the importance we attach to social experience at all stages of people\'s lives, and our focus on psychological and developmental approaches to the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of mental ill health. We contribute to the pool of ideas through our own research and development, but are also committed to bringing together the best ideas of the time, old and new, from inside and out, together with the most gifted and able professionals in our fields of endeavour. We aim to share our ideas and practice through as many routes as possible. As a Trust we aim constantly to be evolving in nature and form in relation to the environment in which we work, to ensure that our contribution remains relevant. The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

An exciting opportunity to work as an integral member of the Corporate Governance Team. The post holder will be accountable to the Director of Corporate Governance with dotted reporting lines to the Deputy Company Secretary. The post holder will have responsibility for providing leading the implementation of the risk management framework and supporting the development of a risk aware culture at all levels in the organisation, to ensure the delivery of high quality and safe services. The post holder will support directorates and divisions to deliver effective risk management and reporting processes via the Trusts risk management system. They will co-ordinate the Trusts risk processes ensuring these are escalated to the appropriate Groups and Committees and levels of internal / external oversight. Driving risk-based improvements across the organisations five strategic ambitions. By fostering strong relationships with internal and external audit teams, the post holder will identify best practice approaches to risk management and leverage from external benchmarking activities to mature the Trust\'s approach to risk management and strengthen the internal control environment. The post holder provides overall management for policy development and assurance across the Trust ensuring expert Trust wide support, facilitation and monitoring of progress of the two main role functions above. This includes development of the processes to support improvements in quality and efficiency.

Risk Management and Assurance: Support the development of a robust Board Assurance Framework and Corporate Risk Register alongside the Deputy Company Secretary. Working alongside the Deputy Company Secretary and regularly consulting with Risk Owners/ Leads across the Trust, the post holder will take a lead role concerning the development and monitoring of key performance indicators for Risk Management, across the Trust, and implement and embed robust evaluation and assurance processes.

Policy Assurance: Responsible for development and implementation of the Trust-wide "Policy on Policies". Ensure that those responsible for developing and updating policies follow guidelines and process around policy creation and review including any statutory compliance, formatting, and equality impact assessments. Must be able to challenge senior officers on policies. Supporting the Director of Corporate Governance, work as a key active and participative member of the Trust\'s Policy Assurance Group, assigning policies to key members of the group for review, ensuring identified issues are documented and communicated to the policy author and overseeing that changes are completed as required to enable policy ratification and upload to the intranet. Ensure policies are developed or reviewed with an appropriate level of stakeholder engagement.

Working for our organisation You will join a dedicated and dynamic team based in Belsize Park (Hampstead) in north-west London. Our hybrid working model allows for flexibility, with up a minimum of 2 days per week in the office particularly for Board of Directors, Board Committee and Council of Governors meetings. We are committed to supporting individuals from diverse backgrounds.

Role location and candidate requirements

In submitting an application form, you authorise the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.

Pre-employment checks If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a "selfie" using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using runarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk. For further support on submitting an application please refer to the NLPSS Applicant Toolkit: https://royalfree.pagetiger.com/cuuomnr/1

This role is ideal for someone with experience in Risk Management and looking for the next step in their career around Governance. Strong organisational and communication skills are essential, along with attention to detail, the ability to manage multiple priorities, lead and work effectively within a team, with staff at all levels across the Organisation. If you are a motivated and experienced professional looking for the next step in your career journey, we encourage you to apply for this exciting new opportunity.