Group Chair Norfolk & Waveney University Hospital Group

The Methodist Church in Britain; England; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

The Norfolk and Waveney University Hospitals Group is recruiting a Group Chair to lead its Group Board alongside the Group CEO and joint executive and non-executive directors. The work centres on aligning the group's strategy, transforming services including urgent care and cancer, and tackling shared financial pressures.

The post suits a board-level leader with executive or non-executive experience in complex public-sector organisations and a record of leading change.

Qualifications

• Shaping and delivering organisational vision and strategy.
• Leading complex Board-level change, including transformation, technology and innovation.
• Sustained impact on service improvement, innovation and public-sector value.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Group Board with the Group CEO and joint executive and non-executive directors
• Align strategic ambitions across the group with streamlined decision-making and locally focused delivery of care
• Transform health services around patient and community needs, with a focus on preventative care for long-term conditions
• Deliver a consistent best-practice model of urgent and emergency care with a focus on frailty
• Implement safe and sustainable care models and improve access and outcomes for cancer patients
• Improve service resilience, staff development and training
• Build research, training and innovation capacity within a University Hospital system
• Realise service transformation benefits through estates and digital
• Tackle underlying financial challenges and use the group's purchasing and investment power

Skills

Board-level change

Public-sector value

Chairing meetings

Equality and inclusion

Governance, risk

Organisational strategy

Job description

The Norfolk and Waveney University Hospitals Group is recruiting a Group Chair to lead its Group Board alongside the Group CEO and joint executive and non-executive directors. The work centres on aligning the group's strategy, transforming services including urgent care and cancer, and tackling shared financial pressures. The post suits a board-level leader with executive or non-executive experience in complex public-sector organisations and a record of leading change. Applications must go through Alumni Global, not Trac or NHS Jobs.

What the job involves

• Lead the Group Board with the Group CEO and joint executive and non-executive directors
• Align strategic ambitions across the group with streamlined decision-making and locally focused delivery of care
• Transform health services around patient and community needs, with a focus on preventative care for long-term conditions
• Deliver a consistent best-practice model of urgent and emergency care with a focus on frailty
• Implement safe and sustainable care models and improve access and outcomes for cancer patients
• Improve service resilience, staff development and training
• Build research, training and innovation capacity within a University Hospital system
• Realise service transformation benefits through estates and digital
• Tackle underlying financial challenges and use the group's purchasing and investment power

What’s required

Experience

• Shaping and delivering organisational vision and strategy
• Leading complex Board-level change, including transformation, technology and innovation
• Board membership at executive or non-executive level in complex organisations
• Working within or closely with public-sector organisations
• Sustained impact on service improvement, innovation and public-sector value
• Building and leading inclusive teams and collaborative cultures

Skills & knowledge

• Chairing meetings and events and managing competing views inclusively
• Engaging, challenging and supporting senior leaders
• Championing equality, diversity and inclusion and culture change
• Statutory and regulatory governance, risk management and Board assurance in a regulated industry
• Financial stewardship, probity and directors' statutory and fiduciary duties
• Collaborating across organisational boundaries with sociopolitical acumen

Other

• Assessing competing priorities with a focus on patient and public benefit
• Engaging patients, communities and diverse stakeholders with empathy
• A high degree of personal integrity and resilience
• Three referees covering at least six years of employment

Nice to have

• Recent experience and understanding of implementing digital strategies and complex technology transformations