Assistant Director Audit and Risk Assurance

Description

Working across all four countries of the UK, our vision is to be an effective, relevant and compassionate regulator, who supports the delivery of safe, high-quality patient care. As health services in the UK continue to face intense pressure, regulation has a pivotal role to play in protecting patients and promoting the wellbeing of the workforce. Our people are our biggest asset and we have set ambitious commitments to address inequality, embrace diversity, and support inclusion within healthcare, both as a regulator and an employer. Underpinning much of this work is maintaining an effective and enabling approach that provides objective assurance on the corporate governance, risk management and internal controls operating across the business. Our Assistant Director for Audit and Risk Assurance is central to leading this work.

This is a significant senior leadership position, coming at an exciting and challenging time of change for us. As our most senior audit and risk professional, you will engage at all levels and in every part of the organisation to develop, maintain and monitor our approach to risk. Working closely with our co-sourced external partner, you will be accountable for delivering an audit strategy and risk based audit programme that ensures people, processes and culture align to provide assurance. Reporting to the Director of Resources and directly accountable to the Chair of the Audit & Risk Committee, this role will help shape key priorities for us. You will be a key adviser to the Chief Executive, Directors and our Council and the relationships you build at all levels of the organisation will be central to success.

With a relevant professional qualification, you will bring deep and demonstrable expertise as an audit executive or internal audit leader in a complex environment, with the ability to shape strategy and deliver a programme of work that supports and enables the organisation’s audit activities. You will bring outstanding interpersonal and influencing skills, be politically astute with excellent relationship-building and communication skills and will demonstrate the strategic vision and determination to get things done in this uniquely interesting and demanding role.

Our organisation is built on fairness and trust – the trust of patients and the medical profession. Underpinned by our core values of Excellence, Fairness, Transparency, Collaboration and Integrity, we provide an inclusive working environment where everyone is valued and we welcome new perspectives and ideas that you may bring. We have placed equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our corporate strategy, both as a regulator of an increasingly diverse medical profession and as an organisation. We particularly encourage and welcome applications to this role from women, black and minority ethnic people and disabled applicants as part of our commitment to address under-representation in our senior leadership.

You’ll benefit from being part of an organisation that is genuinely committed to its people with several excellent benefits including 30 days holidays per year, a defined contribution pension scheme with a generous employer contribution of 15%, and hybrid and flexible working. 

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For a confidential conversation please contact our advising consultants at GatenbySanderson, Matt Malone - matt.malone@gatenbysanderson.com - or Zoe Bennett - zoe.bennett@gatenbysanderson.com.

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