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Corporate Governance Manager

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

The closing date is 08 May 2025

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Job summary

We are thrilled to announce an exciting opportunity for a highly organized and proactive individual to join our Trust Secretariat team as a Corporate Governance Manager! Your expertise and dedication will ensure that our governance processes are seamless, efficient, and aligned with our strategic goals. If you are passionate about governance and eager to make a significant impact, we would love to hear from you!

Key Responsibilities:

  • Support to Chair and NEDs: The Corporate Governance Manager will play a crucial role in supporting the Chair and NEDs in their day-to-day duties.

  • Governance and Compliance:You will be responsible for maintaining and interpreting the Trust Constitution, advising on national guidance, and supporting the implementation of best practice governance standards. This includes ensuring compliance with the Health and Social Care Act 2012, NHS England guidance, and the NHS Foundation Trust Code of Governance

  • Council of Governors: The role involves advising the Council of Governors and its committees on governance matters, ensuring meetings are conducted in line with the Trust's regulatory framework, and providing professional advice and support to enable governors to carry out their statutory duties effectively

  • Stakeholder Engagement: Building and maintaining strong relationships with key external stakeholders is a key part of this role.

Main duties of the job

The Corporate Governance Manager plays a crucial role in ensuring robust and effective governance across the Trust. This position provides essential support to the Chair and Non-Executive Directors (NEDs), ensuring they are well-briefed and have timely access to relevant information. Key responsibilities include:

  • Council of Governors: Advise the Council of Governors and its committees on governance matters, ensuring meetings are conducted in line with the Trust's regulatory framework. Support governors in fulfilling their responsibilities, including induction, training, and development plan

  • Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain strong relationships with key external stakeholders. Work closely with the Communications Team to ensure consistent and aligned messaging to stakeholders on key issue

  • Team Leadership: Line manage and support the development of Governance Officers and the Membership Officer. Ensure effective support is provided to the Chair and NEDs, with clear prioritisation of workload and timely delivery of outputs

This role requires a highly organized and proactive individual with excellent communication skills and the ability to manage complex and high-volume workloads. The Corporate Governance Manager will be confident in drafting accurate and timely reports and briefings, able to work independently to tight deadlines, and comfortable adapting to changing priorities.

About us

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Date posted

25 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£53,755 to £60,504 a year gross per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

246-COR7139413

Job locations

County Hall

Norwich

NR1 2DH


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please read the job description / person specification carefully and ensure your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience needed

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please read the job description / person specification carefully and ensure your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience needed

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to degree level or equivalent
  • Minute taking qualification
  • Evidence of continuous professional development

Desirable

  • Professional specialist and Leadership Management qualifications

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working within a Foundation Trust Governance setting, demonstrating insight into codes of governance and legislation applicable to NHS Trusts and FTs, preferably in a mental health trust
  • Ability to identify significant issues, being astute at identifying political sensitivities and emerging threats and opportunities
  • Experience of managing change in a complex and politically sensitive environment Experience of working with service users/carers, patient and public involvement in the NHS

Desirable

  • Experience of dealing and responding to emergency situations

Skills

Essential

  • Ability to assimilate and understand the work of the Trust, its policy context, operational issues and challenges.
  • Ability to think strategically, interpreting national guidance and producing corporate strategies and plans for the Trust
  • Ability to review and effectively utilise relevant legislation and interpret for others to follow
  • Excellent oral, written and presentation skills, including ability to convey highly complex information and difficult messages with tack, sensitivity and diplomacy to a range of individuals and organisations, where persuasive and motivational skills are required and where there are significant barriers to understanding
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to degree level or equivalent
  • Minute taking qualification
  • Evidence of continuous professional development

Desirable

  • Professional specialist and Leadership Management qualifications

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working within a Foundation Trust Governance setting, demonstrating insight into codes of governance and legislation applicable to NHS Trusts and FTs, preferably in a mental health trust
  • Ability to identify significant issues, being astute at identifying political sensitivities and emerging threats and opportunities
  • Experience of managing change in a complex and politically sensitive environment Experience of working with service users/carers, patient and public involvement in the NHS

Desirable

  • Experience of dealing and responding to emergency situations

Skills

Essential

  • Ability to assimilate and understand the work of the Trust, its policy context, operational issues and challenges.
  • Ability to think strategically, interpreting national guidance and producing corporate strategies and plans for the Trust
  • Ability to review and effectively utilise relevant legislation and interpret for others to follow
  • Excellent oral, written and presentation skills, including ability to convey highly complex information and difficult messages with tack, sensitivity and diplomacy to a range of individuals and organisations, where persuasive and motivational skills are required and where there are significant barriers to understanding

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Additional information

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

County Hall

Norwich

NR1 2DH


Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

County Hall

Norwich

NR1 2DH


Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:

Head of Chair and Chief Executives Office

Robyn Ward

robyn.ward@nsft.nhs.uk

Date posted

25 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£53,755 to £60,504 a year gross per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

246-COR7139413

Job locations

County Hall

Norwich

NR1 2DH


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