Risk Manager

Greater Manchester Menthal Health NHS Foundation Trust; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Manchester seeks a Risk Manager to promote a positive risk management culture and ensure compliance with Risk Management Framework. Responsibilities include maintaining the Corporate Risk Register and delivering risk management training. Candidates should have a degree level education, experience in incident management, and strong analytical skills. This role offers an opportunity to improve healthcare services and enhance safety for patients, working in a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent relevant work experience.
• Experience of working with incident and risk management systems.
• Understanding and experience of the incident reporting process.

Responsibilities

• Promote a positive risk management culture within the Trust.
• Ensure the maintenance of the Corporate Risk Register.
• Monitor compliance with the Risk Management Framework.

Skills

Negotiation and influence skills

Computer literacy

Analytical and judgment skills

Ability to work in a team

Education

Degree level education or equivalent work experience

Tools

Incident management systems

Policy databases

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Promote a positive risk management culture within the Trust, utilising a range of communication and engagement techniques to raise awareness and encourage involvement.
• Ensure the maintenance of the Corporate Risk Register.
• Regular meetings with Executives, Senior Managers and Department Heads to provide advice on risk registers, assessment and categorisation of risks, and controls to reduce risks.
• Ensure all divisions and directorates develop and implement local risk management practices compliant with the requirements of the Risk Management Framework.
• Devise and provide risk management training to an agreed training needs analysis that includes members of Divisional management teams and corporate functions to ensure that the risk management system is understood and implemented effectively.
• Monitor compliance with the Risk Management Framework, by devising a rolling audit programme and support any review by the Trust's Internal Auditors.
• Support the development, implementation and maintenance of relevant policies and standard operating procedures in own area and actively propose policy or service changes which impact beyond own area of activity. This includes participation on working groups proposing policy changes where policy or service changes impact on other areas across the Trust.

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Educated to degree level or equivalent relevant work experience

Desirable criteria

• Relevant risk management qualification
• Post Grad Diploma in relevant subject or working towards

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of working with incident and risk management system
• Experience of analysing and interpreting data
• Experience of designing and delivering training and presentations
• Experience of working with staff at all levels of seniority
• Experience in managing teams
• Understanding and experience of the incident reporting and reviewing process
• Excellent leadership skills, with the ability to drive and motivate individual teams

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working in NHS healthcare
• Experience of writing reports
• Policy development and implementation

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Knowledge of good risk management practice, for example, The Orange Book
• Knowledge of incident and risk management systems

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria

• Ability to negotiate and influence others
• Computer literate and be familiar with incident and policy databases
• Experience of producing and presentation of high-level reports
• Good analytical and judgement skills & experience of Making decision under difficult circumstances
• Ability to analysis, interpret and present (complex) quantitative and qualitative data to a range of audiences
• Ability to work independently as well as in a team
• Ability to work flexibly and in a changing environment

Important Information about working for GMMH

All positions within the Trust are subject to satisfactory pre‑employment checks. For further information on the checks required please visit the NHS Employers website www.nhsemployers.org.

The Trust mandates all post holders who require a DBS for their role to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration throughout your employment with GMMH.

Applicants are encouraged to apply for posts at Greater Manchester Mental Health who have direct experience of mental health, learning disability or drug and alcohol services either as a service user or a carer.

The Trust is also committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We are aspiring to ensure our workforce is representative of the diverse communities that we serve, and we are strongly committed to removing barriers to employment for candidates from under‑represented groups, for example BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ communities. If you would like to have an informal chat about the recruitment process for this role or would value some additional support, we'd love to hear from you.

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We have added a disclaimer to our application process advising that the use of AI is monitored. GMMH reserves the right to follow up with a candidate at the interview on specific responses and those examples used in the supporting statement to explore it further.

Sponsorship

We are proud to be an approved sponsor for the Skilled Worker visa. Applications from individuals who require sponsorship will be considered alongside all other applications. Please be aware that not all roles are eligible for sponsorship. You can review the list of eligible roles and salary requirements on the UK Government's website - click here.

If you are offered a role with us and you require sponsorship, we will check your eligibility in line with the information on the above website. Your offer of employment could be withdrawn if the role is not eligible for sponsorship, and you are not otherwise able to evidence your right to work in the UK.

The Home Office introduces new changes from 22/07/2025 that impact the health and care sector, you may wish to familiarise with it here.

Do you have experience outside the NHS?

We want to attract and retain people with diverse skills and experience, to deliver inclusive healthcare services to our communities.

We will consider relevant experience outside the NHS to calculate your salary on appointment. Please contact our Recruitment Team for more information.

Please note, this vacancy may be closed at any time if sufficient applications have been received.

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Documents to download

• Risk Manager Band 7 (PDF, 264.6KB)
• Important Candidate information (PDF, 2.5MB)