CQC - Risk Officer

Grade C - £31,373 (National Framework) or £36,775 (London Framework – if you are London office based or homebased and live within the boundary of the M25) – There is also an additional homeworking allowance of £553 per annum for those working from home

Contracted Hours: Full time 37 hours per week. We may also consider compressed hours.

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing date: Wednesday 1st May 2024 at 11.59pm 

This role is NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points-based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected, and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

 Are you committed to helping us regulate health and social care within England?

When thinking about what drives you every day in your job, what keeps you motivated and passionate about your work what comes to mind?  For 3000+ people at the CQC we end each day knowing that we have made a difference to the lives of those most in need in our communities.  We make sure health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and encourage care services to improve.  We are looking for people who are caring, demonstrate integrity and work well as part of a team to join with us and share in this sense of achievement.  If you would like to help us make a positive impact to health and social care within England, then read on.

Why this could be a great role for you….

You will support engagement with risk management across CQC. You will also provide advice and guidance to increase the quality of risk management conversations within teams and directorates and support the implementation of the organisation’s risk management strategy and principles across CQC.

You will support teams and directorates to develop their risk registers, ensuring comprehensive and insightful risk information is recorded, in line with risk reporting requirements.

What we can offer you...

Your health and wellbeing are important to us and are supported through generous annual leave (starting at 27 days and rising with service to 32.5 days, plus 8 Bank Holidays), a cycle to work scheme, discounted gym vouchers and access to a free employee assistance service 24 hours a day. We also understand the importance of financial health and offer membership of the NHS pension scheme, contributing about 14% of basic salary. You will also be able to access discounts to supermarkets, high street stores, electronics, fleet cars, plus we also have an internal reward scheme which could see you earn yourself a voucher or two! All of our Homeworkers are also kitted out with everything they need to comfortably work from home.

We want to support you to succeed and be your very best, with opportunities for training and development along with the support of experienced managers and mentors.  

We want to make working for CQC a great experience for everyone, and to role model a diverse and representative culture. To support an inclusive environment where colleagues feel empowered to bring their whole self to work, we support a variety of staff networks, including the Race Equality Network, LGBT+ Equality Network, Carers Equality Network, Disability Equality Network and Gender Equality network.

What you will bring…

You will bring the ability to provide advice and support to colleagues at all levels in identifying, assessing, managing and reporting risk and help to embed risk management principles across CQC. You will have a thorough understanding of risk management, its importance and how it links to other areas of the organisation. You will also have experience of maintaining risk registers and providing training and support to colleagues.

Accountabilities:

• To liaise with colleagues across the organisation to champion good risk management culture, practices, and behaviours throughout CQC.
• To support implementation of risk management arrangements within relevant work programmes led by the Corporate Risk Manager.
• To provide technical advice, guidance, and support training to CQC staff on risk management matters in line with risk policy and escalate matters to the Corporate Risk Manager when appropriate.
• To communicate the importance and value of risk management throughout the organisation.
• To support effective processes to identify, assess, manage, and report on risks to which the business is or might be exposed, in line with the risk management strategy and principles.
• To provide advice, briefings, presentations, and written reports to various areas of the business on risk management.
• To assist in the preparation of reports to the Executive Team, Audit Committee, Board, and others receive comprehensive and insightful risk information.
• To support the maintenance of risk registers across the organisation, in particular at directorate and team level, ensuring risks are understood, managed in line with the Risk Management Framework and escalated accordingly.
• To utilise evidence, information, data, and intelligence to assess risks within the organisation and support their risk owners to determine actions and responses.
• To carry out any other duties or deputise for the Corporate Risk Manager, including attending meetings on his/her behalf.
• To role model inclusive behaviours in everyday interactions.
• To promote a culture of respect and fairness and understand personal responsibilities around delivering against CQC diversity and inclusion strategy.
• To role model and support others to instil our values into everything that we do.
• Role models inclusive behaviours in everyday interactions.
• Promotes a culture of respect and fairness and understands personal responsibilities around delivering against CQC diversity and inclusion strategy.
• Demonstrate competence and supports others to achieve behavioural excellence through our Success Profiles ensuring yourself and those you work with are the best that they can be.
• Role models and supports others to instil our values into everything that we do.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• At least two years’ experience of working in a risk management or similar role.
• Excellent presentation skills and experience facilitating workshops / risk exercises for staff.
• Robust diligence and ability to pay close attention to detail.
• Strong inter-personal communication skills.
• Ability to work as part of a team and independently with little management oversight.

Desirable Experience:

• Experience of embedding risk management practices across organisation.
• Previous experience of completing risk assessments and developing and implementing risk mitigation plans.
• Familiarity with common risk analysis techniques

For an informal discussion or further information on the role, please contact Caroline Stevens, Risk Manager at [email protected]

Individual adjustments... 

We are committed to being open and transparent around our processes and we endeavour to offer every candidate the opportunity to perform at their best throughout the recruitment process. We seek to support candidates to identify potential challenges and work with them to identify and facilitate reasonable adjustments as appropriate. Should you require assistance and/or would like to request a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact a member of the team via email: [email protected] 

CQC is committed to promoting a fair and inclusive workplace where all our people can flourish and reach their full potential. We know diverse teams allow for a more creative and productive environment and therefore encourage applications from everyone regardless of: age, gender/sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability, ethnicity or sexual orientation.

For this role, we are particularly encouraging people from ethnically diverse communities and people with a disability to apply, who are currently under-represented at this level in the organisation.

 

Our Values

Excellence – Meeting our challenge to be a high-performing organisation
Caring – Treating everyone with dignity and respect
Integrity – Demonstrating our passion for ‘doing the right thing’
Teamwork – Enabling us to be the best we can