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Risk Management

• Act as the trust lead specialist for risk management and maintain the day-to-day operation of the risk systems to reflect the risk profile of the Trust, ensuring the Trust has a fully functioning risk register operating at local, care group and corporate level. 
• Ensure care group risk registers and local risk management practices are aligned with Trust strategies.
• Deliver trust-wide requirements around applying risk appetite and scoring when updating risk registers. 
• Ensure principles of risk management are embedded in Trust strategies and policies. 
• Construct and deliver risk management training across the Trust to an agreed training needs analysis to ensure that risk management systems are understood and implemented effectively. 
• Ensure cost effective service management, focusing on ways to reduce financial costs, and also improve service quality. 
• Work as the trust lead specialist to ensure the provision of high quality, comprehensive and coordinated risk governance across the Trust. 
• Evaluate risk management including clinical and reputational issues arising from any investigation and report these to the Head of Governance.
• Provide advice and support to all colleagues on risk management. 
• Jointly, offer expert advice and support on Datix / LRMS systems (alongside other team members). 

Compliance

• Oversee Trust-wide compliance with national guidelines including NICE and reporting of the Trust’s position in relation to this. 
• Be the Trust-wide lead for the dissemination of CAS alerts and ensuring Trust-wide compliance with these. 
• Oversee and co-ordinate the production of reports for Trust committees and groups, including quality checking the work of the compliance team and presenting these reports at the relevant forum. 
• Maintain oversight of Trust clinical guidelines and policies, including facilitation of the Rapid Review Guideline Meeting and Policy Council. Work with key stakeholders to ensure documents are up to date, relevant, and have been approved in line with policy

Other Duties

• To provide line management to the team, including responsibility for wellbeing, appraisal, mandatory training, performance and attendance at work.
• Develop and implement effective reporting arrangements to accurately record and monitor performance against targets. 
• Monitor trends related to specific service areas, procedures, patient groups or pathology sharing this information as appropriate with recommendations for action. 
• Ensure systems are in place to comply with Trust policies and procedures and in particular relating to information governance arrangements. 
• Facilitate excellent partnership working with Care Group management teams through effective liaison and communication. 
• Provide expert advice to support the development of Trust wide policies and clinical guidelines. 
• Support the development, implementation, and monitoring of national and local safety improvement initiatives. 
• The post holder may be required to be involved in conversations with patients and their families, which can be sensitive and emotional in nature. 
• Jointly, be responsible for the Datix and QPulse systems (alongside Patient Safety Managers) to ensure they are fit for purpose.
• Provide cover for departmental governance colleagues as appropriate to maintain service continuity. 
• Be responsible for the management and coordination of multiple programmes and projects across the Trust.

Inclusive Recruitment & Selection

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and accurate data capture is an important part of that to ensure we are supportive and representative. Our aim is to ensure that all applicants can see themselves in the available categories on our application form, but we recognise that some of our data capture fields are not inclusive. We have flagged this with our system provider to ask for change.

We offer encouragement and active support to applicants with additional needs, including those from ethnic minorities, with disabilities and members of the LGBTQ+ community. If you wish to adjust any aspect of the recruitment process or wish to find out more about our recruitment & selection processes, please get in touch with our Recruitment Manager: [email protected]

We are continually reviewing our recruitment & selection process to support the long-term aim of Sheffield Children’s being a champion of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. If you have any ideas for improvement, please get in touch with Catherine Gilbert at [email protected]

Trust Values

The Trust is committed to providing great quality patient care and keep children, young people and families at the heart of what we do by following our CARE values:

•    Compassion – leading by kindness and showing empathy, understanding and respect
•    Accountability – striving to do the right thing and owning responsibility
•    Respect – value differences, tackling inequality and fostering a culture of inclusion
•    Excellence – delivering a high-quality standard of care