Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Risk Systems Manager
Closing date: 05 June 2026
We are seeking an experienced and driven Risk System Manager to take a leading role in developing and managing the Trust’s risk information management system(s).
This is a critical role at the centre of our quality governance framework. You will be the Trust’s expert for its information risk management system InPhase. This will include ensuring that our technology, data, and processes work together to provide a clear, reliable, and actionable picture of organisational risk and safety.
Main duties of the job
- Support the Information System Lead for InPhase in leading its configuration, optimisation, and ongoing development
- Drive full utilisation of system functionality across modules (e.g. incident reporting, risk registers, audits, policies)
- Ensure data quality, standardisation, and integrity, implementing validation rules and consistent taxonomy
- Lead system change control, upgrades, and development, working closely with suppliers and internal stakeholders
- Design and deliver reports and dashboards that translate complex data into meaningful risk intelligence
- Provide expert advice and training to staff across the Trust, enabling confident and consistent use of the system
You will ensure that the risk system is not just a repository of information–but a powerful tool for insight, improvement, and assurance.
About us
Our staff enjoy a range of benefits including:
- on-site parking and several on-site cafes and eateries
- A cycle-to-work scheme along with electric vehicle charging points.
- A dedicated staff health and wellbeing hub which includes rooms for mindfulness, gym, exercise classes and shower facilities and different programmes to keep you active.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
- Educated to degree level or equivalent in information / system management, or evidence of working towards degree-level or equivalent.
- Relevant specialist risk management qualification
Experience
- Educated to degree level or equivalent in information / system management, or evidence of working towards degree-level or equivalent.
- Proven experience of working with a risk information management system such as InPhase, developing the system and supporting end users.
- Proven experience of working in an NHS operational environment and managing working relationships with clinicians.
- Experience of working in risk management systems in a large, complex organisation embracing a range of different activities.
- Proven experience of working with board members and board sub-committees, managing, and influencing non-executive directors.
- Facilitating and supporting teams to identify, assess, and manage operational risks, including mitigation plans.
Skills and Knowledge
- Understanding of risk and information management, assurance, and the concept of an ‘internal control’ system
- Understanding of the internal and external context within which NHS bodies operate.
- Ability to manage competing priorities, adapting to change, and to manage a number of different activities at the same time.
- Proficiency in use of databases (i.e. interrogation and report generation) and web-based systems
- Ability to assimilate complex data received from a number of sources.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
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