Risk Officer

Job Summary

The Risk Officer is an integral member of the Corporate Patient Safety Team and plays a crucial role in supporting effective risk management and governance across the Trust. Working across all areas of organisational risk, the post holder will help embed and continually improve the risk management framework, provide subject matter expertise, and deliver high‑quality analysis and assurance of risk registers.

The Risk Officer will collaborate closely with clinical and corporate colleagues, promoting a culture of safety, transparency, and continuous improvement. The role includes maintaining risk systems, coordinating routine governance processes, and supporting training and communication activities. The post holder will work with the Head of Risk and Quality Insight and the Risk and Quality Governance Manager to implement the Trust’s risk strategy, ensure alignment with national standards, and contribute to key improvement programmes.

• Promote and embed the organisation's risk management framework, ensuring risks are identified, assessed, and effectively managed.
• Provide expert advice, tools, training, and guidance to support teams in managing risk.
• Maintain and continuously improve risk systems, including the Risk Register and Safety & Learning System (e.g. Datix).
• Analyse risk data to identify themes, learning, and opportunities to reduce exposure and strengthen controls.
• Coordinate, facilitate, and chair operational risk‑related meetings, ensuring clear actions, follow‑up, and reporting.
• Aggregate and elevate risk information supporting all colleagues.
• Act as a subject matter expert and ‘critical friend,’ offering constructive challenge and assurance to teams.
• Produce clear, high‑quality reports, briefings, and presentations for internal and external audiences.
• Support delivery of the Trust's risk strategy, improvement plan, audits, and continuous enhancement of risk processes.
• Design and deliver risk management training, supporting organisational capability and maturity.

• Promote consistent application of the risk management framework, ensuring organisational risks are identified, assessed, and well‑managed.
• Provide specialist advice to support teams in identifying, evaluating and managing risks.
• Deliver tools, templates, guidance, and training that enable effective risk management practice.
• Identify and incorporate relevant best practice to strengthen the risk management framework.
• Provide high‑quality administrative support to the Risk and Quality Governance Team and, when relevant, the wider Corporate Quality Team.
• Maintain and update risk systems (e.g. Datix) and produce required reports using system dashboards, Excel, or other approved platforms.
• Coordinate and facilitate meetings related to the risk process, including scheduling, virtual management, and arranging equipment.
• Chair the Risk Management Operational Group, bringing together key roles from all Care Groups and Corporate Directorates to support effective and efficient management of risks.
• Record accurate minutes, maintain action logs, and ensure timely follow‑up.
• Support delivery of the wider risk strategy and programme of work as required.
• Maintain up‑to‑date knowledge of relevant policies, legislation, guidelines, and national requirements.
• Review, update and develop Standard Operating Procedures relevant to the role, ensuring alignment with organisational needs.
• Collaborate with the Quality Governance Coordinator to coordinate and facilitate meetings that support the wider Quality Team in using the Health and Safety compliance toolkit and reviewing all Health and Safety risk assessments.

• Support the delivery, documentation and interpretation of qualitative and quantitative risk assessments.
• Analyse risk data to identify themes, learning, and opportunities to reduce exposure and improve controls.
• Contribute to the ongoing development of data collection and reporting methods that support the organisation's risk profile and learning.
• Work collaboratively with staff across the Trust, understanding service needs and enabling the effective use of…