Risk Advisor

Job summary

In this crucial role, you'll provide support to strategic leadership that sets our direction for how we manage corporate risk in the People directorate and safety and wellbeing as an organisation. That means advising the People Directorate Corporate risk owners on corporate risk management, providing reassurance to relevant committees and helping our safety and wellbeing management team develop strategies and programmes for Health safety and wellbeing across the organisation.

Overall, your work will help us become a stronger organisation and in turn improve outcomes for patients across the UK.

As you support colleagues with corporate risk management, safety and wellbeing across NHSBT, you'll work with a wide variety of colleagues across the organisation in different roles and management positions. Gaining access to a wide variety of mangers and strategic leaders from who you will have opportunity to learn will support your development into a potential leader yourself. Beyond this, you will help create wider cultural change and have opportunities to sit on various strategy groups within NHSBT.

Please note, following changes to UK immigration policy from April 4th, this vacancy will no longer be eligible for Visa Sponsorship. Please do not apply unless you believe you have another means of establishing a right to work, or you are already employed by the NHS and would transfer at a pay point at the top of Band 6.

Main duties of the job

As a Risk Advisor, your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the People Directorate, and its departmental managers, with compliance requirements and other monitoring bodies to ensure delivery of NHSBTs governance objectives ensuring that best practice is undertaken, monitored and evaluated.
• Supporting the People directorate and departmental managers to make effective risk assessments and risk management decisions by identifying risks, controls, and deficits supporting managers in the development and monitoring of action plans.
• Supporting the People directorate and departmental managers with embedding and maintaining effective governance and reporting around, health safety and wellbeing resilience and risk.
• Supporting the annual review of the risk management and health safety and wellbeing, frameworks to assess the effectiveness and maturity of each area and participate in the development of a plan to ensure continuous improvement.
• You will be required to travel and spend time away from base, which will involve working irregular hours and overnight stays when required, with prior notice.

About us

At NHS Blood and Transplant, we're incredibly proud of the many talented people who come together every day to make our organisation the very best it can be. We have clearly defined values that are centred around offering exceptional care to our donors and their families. We take care of each other too and we focus on building our expertise so we can change lives, provide quality support and offer fulfilling careers.

It's an opportunity to contribute to a unique team as part of a service that saves lives 365 days a year. We offer brilliant benefits including 27 days of holiday (plus bank holidays), a comprehensive induction and training programme, and competitive pension scheme.

We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with and positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever.