Job summary
The Chair has a unique role in guiding
the Board of Directors.
The role combines the duty
to lead effective corporate governance, consistent with the Nolan principles and NHS values, with securing a
long-term vision and strategy for the organisation.
The Chair role is accountable to the PCN Members Committee.
The relationship between the chair and the Co-Managing Directors is key to the roles success. The chair must cultivate an effective working relationship with the Co-Managing Directors. Many responsibilities in the role description will be discharged in partnership with the COO & CD.
Main duties of the job
Fundamentally, the Chair is responsible for the effective corporate discipline of the Board (and the PCN Members Committee). They are pivotal in creating the conditions necessary for overall Board and individual director effectiveness.
The Chair role is accountable to the PCN Members Committee.
Central to the Chairs role are five key responsibilities set out within the NHS Provider Chair Competency Framework:
1. Strategic: ensuring the Board sets the Networks long-term vision and strategic direction and holding the Co-Managing Directors to account for achieving the Networks strategy
2. People: creating the right tone at the top, encouraging diversity, change and innovation, and shaping an inclusive, compassionate, patient-centred culture for the organisation
3. Professional acumen: leading the Board, both in terms of governance and managing relationships internally and externally
4. Outcomes focus: achieving the best sustainable outcomes for patients/ service users by encouraging continuous improvement, clinical excellence and value for money
5. Partnerships: building system partnerships and balancing organisational governance priorities with system collaboration; this role will become increasingly more important as local organisations move to delivering integrated care, prioritising population health in line with the NHS Long Term Plan for Primary Care.
About us
SDPCN is a leading provider of primary care and extended services in
Derbyshire. We have an ambitious strategy and mission, one that is shared and
supported by all our staff and practices. The PCN is guided by an experienced
executive team with the vision of delivering healthcare to make a real
difference to our patients and service users. Our team at SDPCN all come
together, collaborate and share ideas.The team is made up of
people with different skillsets so we can learn from each other and make a
positive impact.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The attached detailed
description of the Chairs
role has been aligned with the
competency frameworks five domains.
While each set of responsibilities has been aligned
with the competency domain most relevant to discharging that element of
the role, a good Chair will demonstrate
competence in all five domains across all their responsibilities, maintaining,
for example, an outcomes focus while discharging their role as the Boards
facilitator.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The attached detailed
description of the Chairs
role has been aligned with the
competency frameworks five domains.
While each set of responsibilities has been aligned
with the competency domain most relevant to discharging that element of
the role, a good Chair will demonstrate
competence in all five domains across all their responsibilities, maintaining,
for example, an outcomes focus while discharging their role as the Boards
facilitator.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- No specific qualification required for the role.
Desirable
- Please see attached documents
Experience
Essential
- Values
- A clear commitment to the NHS and the values and principles of the organisation and primary care as a whole
- Strategic
- Experience of leading and delivering against long-term vision and strategy
- Experience leading transformational change, managing complex organisations, budgets and people
- People
- Strong interpersonal, communication and leadership skills
- Experience of building effective teams, encouraging change and innovation and shaping an open, inclusive and compassionate culture through setting the right tone at the top and championing diversity at, and across, all levels
- Strongly focused on the experience of all staff and patients
- Fully attentive towards issues of equality, diversity and inclusion
- Demonstrable self-awareness
- Professional acumen
- Prior Board experience (any sector, executive or non-executive role)
- Evidence of successfully demonstrating the NHS Provider Chair competencies
- Demonstrable competence in chairing meetings
- An ability to identify and address issues, including underperformance, and to scrutinise and challenge information effectively for assurance
- Outcomes focus
- A demonstrable interest in health and social care and a strong desire to achieve the best sustainable outcomes for all patients and service users through encouraging continuous improvement, clinical excellence and value for money
- Strong understanding of financial management, with the ability to balance the competing objectives of quality, operational performance and finance
- An appreciation of constitutional and regulatory NHS standards
- Partnerships
- A desire to engage with the local population and to collaborate with senior stakeholders across both our Network Members and wider health and care system
- Experience managing conflict, finding compromise and building consensus across varied stakeholder groups with potentially conflicting priorities
Desirable
- Prior experience as a non-executive director (any sector)
- Prior experience on an NHS Board (executive, non-executive or associate role)
- Professional qualification or equivalent experience
- Prior senior experience of complex organisations outside the NHS, i.e. private, voluntary or other public sector providers of similar scale
- It is also desirable, though not essential, for applicants to live in, or have close links in Derbyshire, with a demonstrable understanding of the geography and the populations we serve.
- Applications will be assessed on merit, as part of a fair and open process, from the widest possible pool of candidates. The information provided by applicants will be relied on to assess whether sufficient personal responsibility and achievement have been demonstrated in previous/other roles, to satisfy the experience being sought.
- The best Boards are those that reflect the workforce and communities they serve. We particularly welcome applications from women, people from local black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, and people with disabilities, who we know are all under-represented in these important roles.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- No specific qualification required for the role.
Desirable
- Please see attached documents
Experience
Essential
- Values
- A clear commitment to the NHS and the values and principles of the organisation and primary care as a whole
- Strategic
- Experience of leading and delivering against long-term vision and strategy
- Experience leading transformational change, managing complex organisations, budgets and people
- People
- Strong interpersonal, communication and leadership skills
- Experience of building effective teams, encouraging change and innovation and shaping an open, inclusive and compassionate culture through setting the right tone at the top and championing diversity at, and across, all levels
- Strongly focused on the experience of all staff and patients
- Fully attentive towards issues of equality, diversity and inclusion
- Demonstrable self-awareness
- Professional acumen
- Prior Board experience (any sector, executive or non-executive role)
- Evidence of successfully demonstrating the NHS Provider Chair competencies
- Demonstrable competence in chairing meetings
- An ability to identify and address issues, including underperformance, and to scrutinise and challenge information effectively for assurance
- Outcomes focus
- A demonstrable interest in health and social care and a strong desire to achieve the best sustainable outcomes for all patients and service users through encouraging continuous improvement, clinical excellence and value for money
- Strong understanding of financial management, with the ability to balance the competing objectives of quality, operational performance and finance
- An appreciation of constitutional and regulatory NHS standards
- Partnerships
- A desire to engage with the local population and to collaborate with senior stakeholders across both our Network Members and wider health and care system
- Experience managing conflict, finding compromise and building consensus across varied stakeholder groups with potentially conflicting priorities
Desirable
- Prior experience as a non-executive director (any sector)
- Prior experience on an NHS Board (executive, non-executive or associate role)
- Professional qualification or equivalent experience
- Prior senior experience of complex organisations outside the NHS, i.e. private, voluntary or other public sector providers of similar scale
- It is also desirable, though not essential, for applicants to live in, or have close links in Derbyshire, with a demonstrable understanding of the geography and the populations we serve.
- Applications will be assessed on merit, as part of a fair and open process, from the widest possible pool of candidates. The information provided by applicants will be relied on to assess whether sufficient personal responsibility and achievement have been demonstrated in previous/other roles, to satisfy the experience being sought.
- The best Boards are those that reflect the workforce and communities they serve. We particularly welcome applications from women, people from local black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, and people with disabilities, who we know are all under-represented in these important roles.
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.