The Governance Support Officer will support the effective operation of corporate governance across the organisation. The post-holder will provide high-quality administrative, analytical, and coordination support to governance processes including risk management, policy management, committee administration, and compliance reporting.
The post holder will s upport the development, monitoring, and reporting of the organisation’s governance and assurance frameworks. Assist in maintaining systems for risk management, including updating the risk register, tracking actions, and supporting risk reviews. Produce and format governance reports, dashboards, and briefing papers.
Provide high-quality secretarial support for governance-related committees and working groups.
We offer excellent employment opportunities to new and existing staff. We aim to be a model employer by embedding best HR practice and to support new ways of working.
We pride ourselves on offering good working conditions, job security, lifelong learning, fair pay and benefits, staff involvement and a balance between work and personal life.
We enjoy a forward thinking and innovative culture and our vision is to have healthy people, living healthy lives in healthy communities. We understand the only way to deliver this is to have the right people with the right skills.
Here is a summary of some of the benefits and services which are on offer to staff:
27 days paid minimum holiday and bank holiday entitlement
NHS pension scheme
Sick pay policy
Occupational health services including staff counselling services
Flexible working and family friendly policies
Flexible retirement and retirement vouchers
Health Service Discounts - offers for stores, travel, equipment etc.
Analytical and judgement skills
- Support the development, monitoring, and reporting of the organisation’s governance and assurance frameworks.
- Assist in maintaining systems for risk management, including updating the risk register, tracking actions, and supporting risk reviews.
- Produce and format governance reports, dashboards, and briefing papers .
Planning and organisation
Provide high-quality secretariat support for governance-related committees and working groups.
To prepare agendas and paperwork for meetings. Ensuring they are produced in line with the agreed format and distributed as necessary.
Attend meetings and take informal and formal minutes as required. This may also include the maintenance, upkeep and updating of action trackers. Ensuring all documents are produced in line with the agreed format and distributed as necessary.
Collate and quality-check papers; ensure timely distribution.
Ensure governance meetings comply with statutory and organisational requirements.
- To support the wider Governance and Business team with daily tasks such as facilities management, stock control, ordering, collating papers, meeting room set up etc
- Prioritise workload effectively to meet deadlines.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of governance processes
Support the coordination of the policy review cycle and ensure policies meet organisational standards.
Maintain the policy library and support teams in uploading, reviewing, and approving documents.
People management
Line manages governance administrator
Information management
Support teams in using incident reporting and risk management systems.
Run routine reports and support investigation processes by tracking timelines and documentation.
Assist with compliance data submissions and audits.
Research and development
- Informal and formal clinical or non-clinical research and development activities
Nature of responsibility and purpose should also be considered.
