Risk and Policy Manager

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.

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.

We offer excellent employment opportunities to new and existing staff. We aim to be a model employer by embedding best HR practice and to support new ways of working. We pride ourselves on offering good working conditions, job security, lifelong learning, fair pay and benefits, staff involvement and a balance between work and personal life. We enjoy a forward thinking and innovative culture and our vision is to have healthy people, living healthy lives in healthy communities. We understand the only way to deliver this is to have the right people with the right skills. Here is a summary of some of the benefits and services which are on offer to staff:

• 27 days paid minimum holiday and bank holiday entitlement
• NHS pension scheme
• Sick pay policy
• Occupational health services including staff counselling services
• Flexible working and family friendly policies
• Flexible retirement and retirement vouchers
• Health Service Discounts - offers for stores, travel, equipment etc.
Successful candidates will be subject to a six-month probationary period.