Grade 6 Deputy Responsible Officer
| Posting date: | 03 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £76,776 to £96,573 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National: £76,776 - £89,594 SLPZ: £81,160 - £94,781 Outer London: £81,898 - £95,430 Inner London: £83,500 - £96,573 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 June 2025 |
| Location: | Manchester |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 406603/7 |
Summary
You will be expected to be an active member of your Division and Directorate’s extended leadership team, ensuring that the Directorate remains an excellent and inclusive place to work.
The role will work closely with the Chief Medical Advisor who is the Responsible Officer, to ensure that training, appraisals and revalidation for doctors employed by the department, and contracted to provide services to the department, are in line with best practice. You will lead the support for clinicians who are undergoing investigation and oversee the sanctions and waivers process when considering if clinicians are able to work within DWP, or as functional assessors in our disability assessment service. You will ensure clinical governance that relates to the Deputy Responsible Officer role is executed in line with best practice.
Responsibilities will include:
- Overseeing the Responsible Officer function for DWP alongside the Chief Medical Advisor.
- Being responsible for ensuring best practice is followed with respect to Responsible Officer duties within the Clinical Governance framework. This includes appraisal oversight, attendance at Responsible Officer meetings with the providers of health assessment services, support for healthcare professionals during investigations and oversight of significant incidents relating to health care professionals.
- Leading the sanctions and waivers process and deputising at the Responsible Officer cross government meetings.
- Writing, reviewing and upkeeping policies and frameworks relating to the Responsible Officer function, as well as facilitating learning and improvement across DWP.
- Drafting and delivering (including in-person) high quality advice for the Chief Medical Advisor and senior officials relating to the Responsible Officers role
- Working directly with departmental providers of disability/functional assessments to deliver high standard, accurate clinical and health related advice that reflects current practice.
- Leading ad-hoc strategic work/projects in this area in response to areas in need of improvement.
- Being able to quickly identify when things are going wrong and put measurable steps in place to put them right.
- Completing a programme of personal and professional development to meet the requirements of the relevant professional regulatory body.
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