Non Executive Director

North West Borough Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Non-executive Director with a strong background in finance and transformational leadership. This role is pivotal in shaping the future of healthcare services, ensuring high-quality outcomes and promoting equality. The successful candidate will join a dedicated team committed to delivering perfect care across communities. With a focus on governance and strategic oversight, this position offers a unique opportunity to influence positive change in a large organization serving millions. If you are passionate about making a difference in healthcare, this role is for you.

Qualifications

• Experience at executive/non-executive level as a finance lead.
• Significant senior leadership experience with quality improvement.

Responsibilities

• Drive high quality and sustainable outcomes.
• Promote equality and inclusion in health services.

Skills

Financial expertise

Leadership experience

Analytical skills

Interpersonal skills

Governance knowledge

Education

Degree or equivalent management experience

Accountancy qualification

Masters qualification (desirable)

Job description

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

Job overview

We're recruiting for a Non-executive Director

This exciting role comes at an interesting time in our evolution. The CQC rated the Trust outstanding for being well led, and outstanding for being caring, so you will be joining an excellent team of committed individuals striving to deliver perfect care across our communities.

To deliver this we recognise that we need the specialist skills of a non-executive director who has an understanding and work experience as a Finance Lead along with significant transformational leadership experience.

Main duties of the job

Take a look at our Recruitment Pack to find out more about joining Mersey Care as an Non-executive Director.

The closing date for this role is Sunday 11th May 2025 at midnight.

Working for our organisation

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the recruitment pack for full details of the role, how you should apply for this and timescales for this recruitment process.

Please can we ask you do not submit an online application form for this role as application is via CV - please see below:

HOW TO APPLY

In order to apply please provide the following documents by emailing: [e-mail]

• An up to date CV. Please label this document 'CV' with your name and the role title
• A supporting statement (maximum two pages) that outlines your interest in this particular organisation and role, and your fit against the essential experience criteria set out in the person specification and role description. Please label this document 'Supporting Statement' with your name and the role title
• A completed diversity monitoring form.

Please include details of employment history covering the last 6 years, however minimum of 2 referees are required. Referees will not be contacted until the final stages of the appointment process.

This closes at midnight on Sunday 11th May 2025

Person specification

NHS Leadership Competency Framework for Board Members

Essential criteria

• Drive high quality and sustainable outcomes
• Deliver safe strategy and long term transformation
• Promote equality and inclusion and reduce health and workforce inequalities
• Provide robust governance and assurance
• Create a compassionate, just and positive culture
• Build trusted relationships with partners and communities

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Degree or equivalent management experience.
• Accountancy qualification

Desirable criteria

• To hold a Masters qualification (or have alternative senior management experience).

Knowledge and Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience at executive/non-executive level as a finance lead
• Significant senior leadership experience and a demonstrable track record of delivering quality improvement at a strategic level
• Experience in driving culture change with measurable outcomes
• Experience of partnership working, including delivering community-based services
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills
• The ability to understand complex strategic issues, analyse and resolve difficult problems
• Understanding of the components of a complex organisation including planning, financial control, performance management, governance, assurance and risk management
• Significant Board Level experience in complex public or private sector organisations
• A commitment to Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust values and vision.
• Proven experience in enhancing governance structures, strengthening risk management frameworks, and ensuring regulatory compliance
• Expertise in establishing and maintaining robust governance frameworks, ensuring transparency, accountability, and effective decision-making at all levels
• Ability to navigate corporate governance, audit processes, and assurance mechanisms to uphold the highest standards of oversight and control

Desirable criteria

• Lead financially driven transformation at executive level
• An understanding / experience of customer-focussed organisations delivering improved customer outcomes
• An overview of the Foundation Trust regulatory framework and Governor responsibilities
• clear understanding of the legal duties, liabilities, and responsibilities of non-executive directors

Values

Essential criteria

• Continuous Improvement
• Accountability
• Respectfulness
• Enthusiasm
• Support

Skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to work as an effective Board member, using financial expertise
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with natural ability and willingness to actively seek out opportunities to communicate confidently about the Trust
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Effective chairing skills
• Ability to interpret national Government policy
• Ability to think and act strategically and articulate a clear sense of direction and vision to a diverse audience
• Ability to engage, lead and develop relationships with a wide range of stakeholders
• Able to relate and adapt to the perspective of others, including those with protected characteristics
• Calm and rational approach to situations where conflict arises, a skilful diplomat with integrity
• Shows commitment and compassion for service users and carers in a community physical health and mental health setting
• Ability to demonstrate a collaborative and inclusive leadership style that is consistent with the Trust values
• Able to embrace and champion the Trust's values and behaviours
• Commitment to ongoing personal development

Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs.

Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.

Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email [e-mail] to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.

We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email [e-mail]) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• Recruitment pack (PDF, 336.4KB)
• OH Risk ID (PDF, 370.5KB)
• A Great Place to Work (PDF, 2.1MB)
• Our People Promise and Charter (PDF, 5.8MB)