Risk Officer - Warwick, United Kingdom - Coventry & Warwickshire Integrated Care Board

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The Risk Officer is a new role within the Governance and Corporate Affairs Team.

The Risk Officer will work closely with the Governance and Corporate Affairs Manager to ensure that a proactive and integrated approach to risk management and assurance is embedded across NHS Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Board (the ICB) and with partner organisations throughout the wider Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care System (ICS).


The Risk Officer will facilitate the System Risk Group, supporting the ICB in the development and maintenance of a positive risk culture by ensuring system risks are managed and monitored consistently and proactively throughout the Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care System.

This involves liaising with and advising system groups and colleagues to support their risk management arrangements and their interactions with the System Risk Group.


Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is responsible for commissioning NHS services on behalf of people in Coventry and Warwickshire.

In consultation with local partners, it plans the delivery of services in a way that both meets local health and care needs and reduces inequalities between different groups.

The Board of the ICB is made up of senior leaders from a range of health and care organisations.

By bringing together the knowledge and experience of the board members and the organisations they represent, we can make informed and joined up decisions about health and care provision across our region.


All ICBs across the country have the flexibility to make decisions that allow them to respond to the specific needs of the local population.

In order to ensure our ICB is delivering the services needed locally, their work will be informed by both the Integrated Care Partnership's (ICP) integrated care strategy and the Health and Wellbeing Strategies published by the Health and Wellbeing Boards in our region.

Furthermore, they will consistently involve and consult with local communities to ensure the needs of our population are met.


Administrate, facilitate and develop the operations of the System Risk Group and its liaison with System Partners in relation to system risk management and assurance.


Prepare the Board Assurance Framework and Corporate Risk Register reports for various audiences, including the Board, the System Risk Group and system executive groups.

Produce tailored communications to promote and share learning from the work of the System Risk Group.

Support the development and maintenance of the ICB's Board Assurance Framework.


Support the development, promotion and robustness of the ICB's Risk Management Policy; ensuring the provision of expert advice to all staff on matters relating to risk identification, classification, mitigation, and the effectiveness of controls.


Support the development and maintenance of the ICB's Risk Registers, working with officers at all levels within the ICB to ensure they are an accurate reflection of the ICB's operational risk profile.


To ensure that the ICB Risk Registers are routinely reviewed to ensure the risks, controls and mitigating actions continue to be updated in line with the ICB's business activities.


Work with the Governance and Corporate Affairs Manager and colleagues to ensure that risk management information is readily available to the System Risk Group, ICB's Executive Management and System Partners in strategic and operational management of risk related issues.


Support the development and maintenance of directorate level, and project level, risk logs; ensuring operational risks are escalated and de-escalated to the Corporate Risk Register as Appropriate.


Produce regular qualitative and quantitative information on risk management for the ICB Board, Committees, Executive Management Team, Senior Leadership Team system partners.

Establish, and deliver, pro-active risk management training to all levels across the ICB and ICS as required.


Ensure that robust arrangements are in place to ensure that ICS System Partner risks are fed back to the ICB as appropriate.


Analyse assurance reports and internal procedures to identify gaps in controls and develop action plans with managers to address these.


Oversee liaison with Internal Audit to ensure that any agreed actions resulting from audit reviews are captured centrally and work with ICB responsible officers to monitor implementation of actions in line with agreed timescales.

Provide support to the Governance and Corporate Affairs Manager on project work, as required.

Travel may be required to attend meetings at various locations across Coventry and Warwickshire.

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