Non-Executive Director

Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust; Gateshead; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Gateshead seeks a Non-Executive Director to enhance its Board. Ideal candidates will have a legal qualification and significant legal experience, providing valuable input to Board decisions. This role involves accountability for organizational success and independent legal advice. Applications are encouraged from those within local constituencies. Join us in making a difference in healthcare for our community.

Qualifications

• Significant legal experience is required.
• Ability to provide independent legal knowledge and judgment to the Board.

Responsibilities

• Accountable alongside the Board for the success of the organisation.
• Constructively challenge Board decisions and help develop priorities and strategies.
• Utilise independent legal knowledge in Board discussions.

Skills

Legal knowledge

Independent judgment

Constructive feedback

Education

Legal qualification

Job description

Overview

We are seeking a Non-Executive Director to complement our existing Board Members, using their skills and experiences to help us to achieve our ambitions and strategy. We are seeking a Non-Executive Director with a legal qualification and significant legal experience. We recognise the value that legal expertise can add to our Board of Directors, providing constructive feedback and input into complex issues. Non-Executive Directors must be a member of one of the public constituencies of Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust (which includes the whole of the North East and North Cumbria in line with the geographical boundaries of the North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care System).

At Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust we provide a wide range of acute, community and older peoples' mental health services to our local community and beyond. We also provide a range of specialist services including bowel screening for a population of around 7 million people and specialist gynaecological cancer treatments from the Scottish Borders through to Cumbria and Whitby. We employ over 5,100 people and have over 400 hospital beds across the Gateshead area. We have an annual turnover of around £400 million and our wholly-owned subsidiary, QE Facilities, provides a wide range of high-quality services to the Trust and other NHS organisations. Our philosophy is that to achieve the best patient care and outcomes we must be clinically-led and management supported - this is an integral part of our approach to everything we do. We have three main strategic ambitions: to be a Northern Centre of Excellence for Women's Health; to be a leading provider of diagnostic services; and to be an outstanding district general hospital. We are proud to be rated as 'good' overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) at our last full inspection. Our maternity services were inspected in 2023 and we were delighted to be rated as 'good' with a number of areas of outstanding practice highlighted.

Responsibilities

• As a Non-Executive Director, you will work alongside the Chair, other Non-Executive Directors and Executive Directors of the Trust as a full member of the Board.
• You will be individually and collectively accountable with the other Directors for the success of the organisation and will have the responsibility to constructively challenge the decisions of the Board and help develop proposals on priorities, risk mitigation, values, standards and strategies.
• As a qualified lawyer you will bring independent legal knowledge and judgement to the work of the Board and its committees, utilising your subject matter knowledge to constructively contribute to debate and decision-making.
• Non-Executive Director appointments are made by the Trust's Council of Governors taking into account local needs and the requirements of the Code of Governance for NHS Provider Trusts.
• Non-Executive Directors are chosen for their breadth of experience, appropriate calibre and personal qualities.
• A Non-Executive Director of the Trust, or any other NHS Foundation Trust, may not be or become a Governor of the Foundation Trust.

Qualifications

• Legal qualification and significant legal experience.
• Ability to provide independent legal knowledge and judgment to the Board and its committees.

Other information

• Note that non-Executive Directors must be a member of one of the public constituencies of Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust (which includes the whole of the North East and North Cumbria in line with the geographical boundaries of the North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care System).
• Non-Executive Directors are appointed by the Trust's Council of Governors.
• Non-Executive Directors are chosen for their breadth of experience, appropriate calibre and personal qualities.
• All new entrants to the NHS will be appointed on the minimum of the pay scale in line with Terms & Conditions.

References and DBS

All references from current and previous employers will be sought and MUST cover a minimum of 3 years employment. When completing the reference section of your application, please provide the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Where possible this should be from two separate employers. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.

Please note it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their DBS certificate if a check is required for the post. This will be done through deduction from your monthly pay over a maximum of three months. It is also a requirement that all successful applicants register or are registered with the DBS update service where a DBS is required.