Health Innovation North West Coast - Non-Executive Director

Integrated Care System; Warrington; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An exceptional opportunity for a Non-Executive Director at a leading Health Innovation Network. The role involves strategic oversight, governance, and improving business performance. Candidates should have Director-level experience, particularly in health or life sciences, and be adept at stakeholder management. Join a dynamic board to drive innovation in healthcare across the region.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience of effective partnership working with a range of agencies.
• Strong record of leading and holding senior officers to account for high performance.
• Experience of developing and implementing a strategic vision with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Chair the Finance, Performance and Strategy Committee.
• Provide strategic guidance on business development and operational efficiency.
• Ensure governance arrangements conform to best practice.

Skills

Partnership working

Performance management

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Negotiation skills

Education

Experience at Director level

Work in health or life sciences sector

Job description

This role is based at Health Innovation North West Coast who are hosted by Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital.

The Non-Executive Director (NED) will work alongside the Chair of the Board and the Executive Team of Health Innovation North West Coast to set the strategic direction, provide effective leadership and support and challenge to the Board.

It will be necessary for the NED to display a constructive, open, impartial and engaging leadership style, providing fair and constructive challenge when required, and acknowledging successful performance.

Main duties of the job

As a NED of the Health Innovation Network Board you will be required to undertake the following key responsibilities:

Governance

Communication and Relationships

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Please see attached Job Description for further details.

About us

Health Innovation North West Coast, one of England's 15 Health Innovation Networks, collectively acts as the innovation arm of the NHS.

We are commissioned by NHS England and Improvement and the Office for Life Sciences to deliver programmes and support innovations for adoption and spread in our region.

We understand the needs of our health systems and are well placed to broker innovative solutions, while collaborating across England to take what works best and quickly spread it nationally, responding to the diverse needs of patients and our population through partnerships and collaboration.

Please visit our website -Health Innovation North West Coast - Home page (healthinnovationnwc.nhs.uk)

www.healthinnovationnwc.nhs.uk

Job responsibilities

As a NED of the HINWC Board you will be required to undertake the following key responsibilities:

Finance and Performance

Health Innovation NWC operates under a Master License Agreement (MLA) from its national commissioners and is required to set a balanced budget each financial year. In this role you will chair the Finance, Performance and Strategy (FPS) Committee which is a subcommittee of the HIN NWC Board.

In addition to the activity described by national commissions, HIN NWC also offers a number of services which attract income. This includes a broad range of offers including coaching academy work, real world evaluation, enhanced innovator support, work with international companies, bid writing and industry partnerships.

These services are crucial to maintaining the depth and breadth of the skills within the team and are an important part of our growth strategy.

As the NED with responsibility for Business Development, your role will include providing scrutiny, advice and guidance to the business development team and encouraging an entrepreneurial mindset with the aim of taking an increasingly commercial approach to business opportunities.

Additionally, through your knowledge and experience, you will offer strategic guidance to the organisation to

• Maximise operational efficiency in business development system and processes
• Leverage existing partnerships, assets and emerging opportunities to accelerate growth and financial return for the organisation.

Support the Chair in providing visible leadership in developing a positive culture for the HINWC by facilitating a close and constructive working relationship between all Board members, built on transparency, openness, mutual respect and trust, valuing the contribution of all Board members.

To provide independent judgment and advice on issues of strategy, vision, performance, resources and standards of conduct and constructively challenge, influence and assist the Executive Team in developing proposals on such strategies.

Horizon scan regionally, nationally and internationally to bring good practice eand foresight to further develop HINWC.

Develop and maintain strategic networks that will be of benefit to the HINWC.

Governance

To bring independent judgment and experience based on medical, clinical, organisational development, research, scientific, entrepreneurial, legal, finance or governance expertise from outside of the HINWC and apply this to the benefit of the organisation, its workforce and its wider community

To commit to working to, and encouraging, within the HINWC, the highest standards of probity, integrity and governance and contribute to ensuring that internal governance arrangements conform to best practice and statutory requirements.

Communication and relationships

Develop a constructive, frank and open relationship with the Chief Executive and Directors through regular communication and to provide support and advice while respecting Executive responsibility.

In consultation with the Chair, take an active part in and/or chair other Committees established by the Board to exercise delegated responsibilities.

To liaise with the Chief Executive concerning correspondence received from members of the organisation

To act as an ambassador, represent and promote actively HINWC and build up strong partnerships with partner organisations, the public, investors and national bodies.

Additionally, as Non-Executive Director of the Board you must:

Promote the vision, values and goals of the organisation through appropriate and visible leadership behaviours and actions.

Uphold the highest of ethical standards of integrity and probity.

Create a culture of listening, openness, constructive challenge and support.

Act with integrity, objectivity, honesty and openness.

Person Specification

Professional or personal experience, qualifications and training

• Demonstrable experience of effective partnership working with a range of agencies and stakeholders
• A strong track record of successfully achieving performance targets
• A strong record of leading and holding senior officers to account for high performance
• Experience of developing and implementing a strategic vision for an organisation with a wide range of stakeholders
• Experience of working at Director level
• Experience of being the member of a Board of a complex organisation
• Proven commercial experience from working in industry or establishing and growing a small business
• A link to working, living or other interest in the Cheshire and Merseyside geography
• Experience of working in the health or life sciences sector
• Strong evidence of effective partnership working and stakeholder management both with and beyond the NHS sector

Knowledge

• Demonstrable understanding of the NHS and the context in which it operates
• Operational and financial experience of managing budgets including profit and loss accounts, audit, forecasting, capacity and demand analysis and prioritisation abilities
• Demonstrable understanding of health-related research and the issues relevant to it
• Experience of working with NHS or Social Care Teams

Communication and relationship skills

• Highly developed verbal and non-verbal communication skills across a range of stakeholders and circumstances
• High level of communication and listening skills with the gravitas to support and challenge senior clinicians and other senior stakeholders at regional, national and international level
• High level of Influencing, persuasion and negotiating skills
• Ability to challenge effectively
• Ability to demonstrate warmth and empathy when communicating
• The ability to motivate and inspire staff at all levels

Analytical and judgment skills

• Experience in exercising judgment involving complex facts and situations, requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options

Aptitude and style

• Intellectually flexible, to think broadly and creatively to develop new solutions to difficult issues
• Experience of developing effective relationships and sustainable partnerships with a wide and diverse range of stakeholders
• Ability to simultaneously and successfully lead strategic change, performance improvement and cost-effective service delivery
• Resilience, innovation and the ability to influence at regional, national and international level
• A commitment to equality, diversity and wider human rights

Motivation and disposition

• The drive and determination to make a difference

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.