Senior Risk & Governance Lead (NHS)

The Methodist Church in Britain; Coalville; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Deputy Risk and Governance Manager within the Patient Safety team, deputising for the Assistant Director of Governance and Compliance. The post leads divisional risk, manages adverse events and coordinates serious incident investigations under PSIRF.

The role requires Masters level education or equivalent experience and extensive risk and governance expertise. You will lead risk strategy, produce reports for meetings, train staff, maintain the risk

Qualifications

• Educated to Masters level or equivalent experience.
• MSc-level study or AQuA Quality Improvement Practitioner accreditation, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Deliver the risk and incident management quality strategy in the designated area, including establishing systems and processes.
• Support the Assistant Director in managing all divisional risks, including adverse events and serious incidents.
• Give expert advice on risk and governance to clinical teams, managers and governance groups, and work with them to coordinate the governance model.
• Deputise for the Assistant Director and lead on areas of work delegated by them.
• Produce risk reports for divisional and organisational meetings, groups and sub-committees.
• Put in place structures and processes to assess, analyse, prioritise and control clinical risks.
• Maintain and update the risk register and oversee its implementation and monitoring.
• Coordinate timely responses to the Central Alerting System.
• Oversee and deliver an annual programme of essential risk and governance training for all staff and managers.
• Act as the point of contact and hub for internal serious incident reporting.
• Coordinate oversight of serious incident investigations in line with the PSIRF framework.
• Ensure mitigating actions from incidents are recorded, maintained and implemented so lessons are learned.

Skills

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Conflict management

Negotiation & influencing

Interpersonal skills

Collaborative working

Education

Masters degree

MSc-level study or AQuA accreditation

Tools

Datix

Radar

Ulysses

Job description

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Deputy Risk and Governance Manager within the Patient Safety team, deputising for the Assistant Director of Governance and Compliance. The post leads divisional risk, manages adverse events and coordinates serious incident investigations under PSIRF.

The role requires Masters level education or equivalent experience and extensive risk and governance expertise. You will lead risk strategy, produce reports for meetings, train staff, maintain the risk