Non-Executive Director

Health Jobs UK; Willerby; Hybrid; GBP 18,000 - 30,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading NHS organization is seeking a Non-Executive Director to provide strategic oversight and governance. This role requires independent thinking and a commitment to enhancing health outcomes for the community. Ideal candidates will have board-level experience and a passion for improving health services. The position emphasizes the importance of safety, quality, and inclusivity across healthcare delivery.

Qualifications

• Board-level experience in organisations of significant complexity.
• Genuine commitment to patients and healthcare services.
• Strong connection with Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust areas.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development and delivery of the Trust's strategic aims.
• Provide oversight and challenge to the Executive team.
• Promote safety, quality, and sustainability.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Understanding of community needs

Commitment to healthcare

Experience in board-level governance

Job description

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019

Job overview

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced and values-driven Non-Executive Director (NED) to join our Board. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the strategic leadership of a high-performing, innovative NHS organisation delivering integrated health and social care across Hull, East Riding, North Yorkshire and beyond.

As a NED, you will bring independent insight, strategic thinking, and a commitment to improving health outcomes for our communities. You will help shape the future of our services, support effective governance, and champion our values of Caring, Learning, Growing.

Please note that this advertised vacancy does not meet the UKVI eligibility requirements for a Skilled Worker Visa and therefore HTFT would not be able to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.

Main duties of the job

• Contribute to the development and delivery of the Trust's strategic aims.
• Provide independent oversight and constructive challenge to the Executive team.
• Promote safety, quality, and sustainability in all aspects of care.
• Support the Trust's digital and clinical transformation agenda.
• Champion equality, diversity, and inclusion across the organisation.
• Engage with the Council of Governors and wider stakeholders.
• Attend Board meetings, strategic development sessions, and sub-committees.
• Act as an ambassador for the Trust and represent the interests of patients and the public.

Working for our organisation

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust is an award-winning provider of health and social care services in Hull, the East Riding and North Yorkshire. Offering multispecialty services and care, it improves the physical and mental health and wellbeing of patients and service users.

It provides a broad range of community and therapy services, primary care, community, and inpatient mental health services, learning disability services, healthy lifestyle support and addictions services. This includes specialist services for children, incorporating physiotherapy, speech and language therapy and support for children and their families who are experiencing emotional or mental health difficulties.

It has specialist services, such as forensic support and offender health, which support patients from the wider Yorkshire and Humber area and further afield. Inspire, the Child and Adolescent Mental Health in-patient unit serves the young people of Hull, East Yorkshire, North and North-East Lincolnshire.

It holds a total of three GP practice contracts, registered to provide care with the Care Quality Commission (CQC). These are a mixture of General Medical Services (GMS) and Personal Medical Services (PMS) contracts in Cottingham, Market Weighton and Bridlington.

The Trust employs more than 3,600 staff working across numerous locations covering Hull, the East Riding of Yorkshire, Whitby, Scarborough, and Ryedale.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a Non-Executive Director, you will be expected to contribute to and play your part in:

Strategy and accountability

• Assist in the setting of the Trust's strategic aims, ensuring that the necessary financial and human resources are in place.
• Ensure that the Trust manages risk effectively and that all risks taken can be managed.
• Ensure that services are run for the people using them, with particular attention to alignment to the Trust's Vision, Mission, Strategy and Values, ensuring alignment with the ICP's integrated care strategy.
• Ensure decision-making complies with the triple aim duty of better health and wellbeing for everyone, better quality of health services for all individuals and sustainable use of NHS resources.
• Give particular attention to the trust's role in reducing health inequalities in access, experience, and outcomes.
• Promote safety and quality in all aspects of services.
• Have an on-going dialogue with the Council of Governors on progress in delivery of the Trust's strategic objectives and high level financial and operational performance.

Clinical governance strategy

• Promote the long-term sustainability of the trust as part of the ICS and wider healthcare system in England.
• Analyse and contribute positively to the strategic development of long-term healthcare plans.
• Build and maintain close relations between the Foundation Trust's constituencies and stakeholder groups to promote the effective operation of the Trust's activities.
• Act as an ambassador for the Trust in engagement with stakeholders.

Compliance

• Ensure the Foundation Trust meets its commitment to patients and targets for treatment.
• Ensure the Trust establishes and maintains the highest standards of clinical standards.

Specific responsibilities of Non-Executive Directors

• Prepare for, attend, and contribute to the six formal Board of Directors' meetings, 6 Strategic Board Development meetings, and quarterly Council of Governors' meetings.
• Chair and attend Board sub-committees as agreed with the Chair.
• To the extent that the required time commitment allows, participate in those activities where it has been agreed that Non-Executive Director's involvement would bring an external and independent perspective.
• Ensure effective stewardship through planning, strategy, control and value for money.
• Work in conjunction with the Council of Governors to promote public sector values and the interests of Foundation Trust members through good corporate governance.
• Attend the Annual Members' Meeting and other governor meetings as agreed with the Chair.
• Participate in visits to services and occasional external stakeholder meetings.
• Participate in an annual review and appraisal of own performance with the Chair and Chair of governor-led Appointments, Terms and Conditions Committee and contribute to the annual appraisal of the Chair and periodic reviews of the performance of the Board.
• Support the Chair, Chief Executive and Executive Directors in the governance and stewardship of the Trust.
• When asked to do so by the Chair, act as critical friend in connection with issues relevant to their own skills, expertise, and experience.

Person specification

Experience
Essential criteria

• Board-level experience in organisations of significant complexity, whether in the private, public, or voluntary sector

Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria

• You will need to have a genuine commitment to patients and the promotion of excellent health care services as part of a wider interest in Mental Health Services.
• Ideally resident in or have strong connections with the service areas within Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust.
• A clear understanding of the needs of all sectors of the community.
• Able to demonstrate a range of professional expertise as well as community understanding and experience, and insights into lived experiences such as being a patient or carer, engaging with diverse ethnic, cultural, social, and economic and cultural groups and communities, experience of women and gender issues, experiences and challenges of younger people, and those with lived experience of mental health issues and/or living with physical disability.
• Self-knowledge and appetite to drive your own learning and development, and the ability to engage with, and add value to the work of Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust's Board and its committees.
• Commitment to our Trust values and ability to role model them always.
• Demonstrate a genuine commitment to patients and the promotion of excellent health care services.

Personal
Essential criteria

• A personal interest and commitment in equality, diversity, and inclusion.

Our recruitment team have shared their top tips to support you when you are ready to make your application. Please ensure that you read this before starting your application.

Please note that if there is a high volume of applications we reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date.

This post will be subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period where applicable, further details would be included within any offer letter.

Where operationally feasible the Trust supports agile working, there is an expectation of attendance of 1 day per week at a Trust site as a minimum operationally. Unless specifically stated in the advert that a role will have home as the base of work, all roles will have the option to work from a Trust base if remote working is not for you.

If required for the post the ability to commute within the Trusts geographical area with access to the appropriate means of transport would be essential.

We will apply for a Disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring Service for the successful candidate if this is required for the post. Anyone applying for a position which involves a regulated activity will require an enhanced Disclosure & Barring check and that the disclosure will, where appropriate to the role, include information against the Independent Safeguarding Authority barred lists for working with children or working with adults or both.

IMPORTANT: Should your application be successfully shortlisted, you will be contacted to attend an interview electronically to the email address provided at the time of the application. It is important therefore, that you CHECK YOUR EMAILS/NHS JOBS ACCOUNT on a regular basis.

If you are not contacted by the Trust within six weeks of the closing date of the vacancy, your application will have been unsuccessful on this occasion. We would however like to thank you for the interest you have shown in the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust.

On 1 July 2024, NHS England strengthened its commitment to supporting employees already working for the NHS who wish to embark upon an apprenticeship to aide career development.

To ensure these staff do not experience a detriment to their basic pay, the salary for duration of the apprenticeship will be consistent with their current pay or the rate paid to other apprentices, whichever is higher (subject to eligibility criteria)

This change supports exiting NHS employees to undertake a formal apprenticeship programme which, upon completion, would qualify them for a role where the evaluated pay band is the same or higher than the band of their current post.

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: including Job Description and Person Specification ( PDF , 609.8 KB )
• Recruitment of Ex-offenders ( PDF , 336.6 KB )
• Being Humber ( PDF , 1.1 MB )
• Staff Benefits ( PDF , 1.4 MB )