Job summary
- Main area
- Associate Non Executive Director
- Grade
- NHS Non-Executive: NHS Trust Associate Non-Executive Member/Director
- Contract
- Honorary: 24 months
- Hours
- Flexible working
- Other
- Job ref
- 844- 6256468
- Employer
- Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Catherines Health Centre
- Town
- Birkenhead
- Salary
- This is a developmental opportunity
- Closing
- 06/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 23/05/2024
Employer heading
WCHC Associate NED Development Role
NHS Non-Executive: NHS Trust Associate Non-Executive Member/Director
Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust's common purpose:
We will support you and your community to live well.
Our values:
Compassion
Supportive and caring, listening to others.
Open
Communicating openly, honestly and sharing ideas.
Trust
Trusted to deliver, feeling valued and safe.
Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust provides high quality community health and care services which are responsive to the needs of our local population. Services are delivered by our dedicated and innovative multi disciplinary professionals and supported by equally committed staff behind the scenes. We strive to continue developing and improving our services by working with and listening to our populations, partners, commissioners and staff.
WCHC offers you a great opportunity to be a part of a talented, passionate and committed team delivering excellent community based services across Cheshire and Merseyside.
We are proud to support our Armed Forces Community as a Veteran Aware NHS Trust and are pleased to share that we recently achieved Bronze Award accreditation, in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme. We support the armed forces as an employer; recognising the experiences and skills ex-military personnel have gained through their service.
Job overview
The Opportunity
We know that diverse boards make better decisions and Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (WCHC) is committed to developing and diversifying the talent pool of aspiring National Health Service (NHS) non-executives. We want to support individuals to learn first-hand about the challenges and opportunities associated with being a non-executive director (NED) in today’s NHS.
Our Associate NED Development Role has been designed to help support the next generation of talented people into board level roles in the NHS. In particular, it aims to develop talented individuals who are underrepresented in current NHS boards.
Main duties of the job
The Programme
The successful candidate will be supported through a 24-month programme, providing them with a unique insight and experience in the role and responsibility of a NED. You will work alongside non-executive and executive board colleagues, taking an active role in board activity and being involved in collective decision making. WCHC will support the successful candidate to develop their NED readiness including identifying and bridging knowledge, skills and competency gaps. Examples of this could include:
- Operating at board level in an organisation of significant size and complexity
- Leadership competencies at board level
- Transitioning from operational to non-executive roles
- Understanding NHS structures and accountability, how the money flows, who are key partners, where regulators fit, and a board’s role in quality and safety.
Working for our organisation
Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by CQC (Dec 2023) with some outstanding areas.
As an aspiring outstanding Trust we have numerous policies and procedures in place which provide standard organisational ways of working, in line with organisational objectives, relevant legislation and requirements. Policies allow for continuity and consistency within the Trust. Employees must abide by and adhere to all Wirral Community NHS Trust’s policies, at all times.
WCHC value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for all and appointments made on merit. Our Trust believes that the best boards are those that reflect the communities they serve.
WCHC particularly welcome applications from candidates from all under-represented minority groups (as per protected characteristics) but in particular candidates from local black and minority ethnic communities, who are currently under-represented in our non-executive roles.
The recruitment processes are conducted in accordance with the NHS Code of Governance to ensure that they are made on merit after a fair and open process so that the best people, from the widest possible pool of candidates, are appointed. The Trust will apply positive action where candidates achieve the same score and one candidate represents the minority group currently mostly under-represented at our Trust Board.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You are already a senior leader, ideally at sub-board level, and aspire to reach the board level within the next 2 years.
You will need to be able to demonstrate that you can use your senior level experience to:
- Bring independence, external perspectives, skills, and challenge to strategy development.
- Shape and support an inclusive, compassionate, person-centred culture for the trust, encouraging diversity, change and innovation using a collaborative and engaging leadership style.
- Use personal knowledge and experience to support Trust NEDs to fulfil their statutory duties.
- Achieve the best sustainable outcomes for patients and service users by encouraging continuous improvement, clinical excellence, and value for money.
- Demonstrate an understanding of balancing organisational priorities with wider collaboration
- Ability to form alliances and work diplomatically across complex interfaces
- Utilise personal lived experience to add valuable insight to discussions and decisions.
Utilise existing leadership skills to evidence your potential to adopt and effectively demonstrate NHS Leadership Competencies as documented within the NHS leadership competency framework for board members.
As this is a development opportunity there will be no remuneration for this programme. However, WCHC will reimburse individuals with appropriate expenses in accordance with NHS terms and conditions.
Person specification
Skills, Experience and Attributes
Essential criteria
- A senior leader from private, public or voluntary sector with a good understanding of the legal duties, liabilities and responsibilities of being a NED in todays NHS
- Able to demonstrate that they will use their experience to bring independence, external perspectives, skills and challenge to strategy development
- Able to demonstrate that they will use their experience to shape and support an inclusive, compassionate, person-centred culture for the trust, encouraging diversity, change and innovation using a collaborative and engaging leadership style
- Able to demonstrate that they will use personal knowledge and experience to support Trust NEDs to fulfill their statutory duties
- Able to demonstrate that they will use their experience to achieve the best sustainable outcomes for patients and service users by encouraging continuous improvement, clinical excellence, and value for money
- Able to demonstrate and understanding of balancing organisational priorities with wider collaboration
- Able to demonstrate an ability to form alliances and work diplomatically across complex interfaces
- Able to demonstrate and utilise personal lived experience to add valuable insight to discussions and decisions
- Able to demonstrate a number of existing leadership skills aligned to the NHS leadership competency framework for board members, enabling further development of these competencies if successful
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Laura Kennedy
- Job title
- Senior Assistant to Chief People Officer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 651 3840
- Additional information
For further information, or to discuss the opportunity in more detail with a member of the WCHC Board, please contact Laura Kennedy using the details provided.
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