Job summary
- Main area
- Risk Management
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 6 months (Secondment opportunities will be considered)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Required to be in the office on Board/ Board Committee/ Council of Governor Meeting days)
- Job ref
- 260-TP-982
- Employer
- Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Tavistock Centre
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £64,156 - £71,148 PA inclusive of Inner London HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/09/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 19/09/2025
Employer heading
Interim Risk & Policy Manager
NHS AfC: Band 8a
It is a condition of this employment that you must live in and remain a resident of the United Kingdom during your employment with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.
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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.
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Job overview
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.
Main duties of the job
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.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the person specification/ job description for a detailed description of main responsibilities.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level and / or equivalent professional qualification
- Risk management related qualification
Desirable criteria
- Masters level or equivalent
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of supporting with the development of Risk strategies and system development in a large and complex organisation
- Ability to support in the delivery of high quality and tailored Risk Management training programmes for all levels of the organisation including risk assessment and management of risk registers
- Specialist knowledge of governance arrangements, policy/document management systems
Skills and Capabilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent communications skills, written and oral including highly effective report writing, policy development and Executive briefings. Ability to present highly complex data.
- Plans and organises a broad range of complex activities, formulating and adjusting plans to reflect changing approaches or requirements
- Able to manage and prioritise conflicting demands and meeting various deadlines required for producing highly complex tasks requiring a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
Desirable criteria
- Project management skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dorothy Otite
- Job title
- Interim Director of Corporate Governance
- Email address
- [email protected]
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