Job summary
We are seeking to appoint 2 Non-Executive Directors to join our Board. The role will require individuals whose personal values are aligned to those of the NHS and of CNTW. If you can answer the following questions positively, please contact Debbie Henderson to discuss the role further.- Do you keep service users and carers at the centre of all you do and, in your mind, and heart?- Are you committed to good relationships with the Governors, members of the Board and our colleagues of every profession and occupation?- Can you lead and manage, support others to manage and encourage leadership throughout the Trust?- Do you understand that CNTW cannot deliver for the people we serve on our own and that relationships with Local Government, Primary Care Networks, the Third Sector and all our partners are fundamental to all we do?- Can you fulfil the role of Non-Executive Director of a Statutory organisation and play a full part in the work of the Integrated Care System?- Can you work with our Staff Networks and Service User and Carer Networks, and all our colleagues to progress the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion agenda and combat discrimination of any kind?- Will you do your best to live the values of CNTW - caring and compassionate, respectful, honest, and transparent?If you can answer these questions positively, you could be our next Non-Executive Director. The Trust would welcome applications from candidates with any of the following backgrounds:
Main duties of the job
** To apply for this role: Applications should be submitted by sending a full CV (covering a minimum of six year employment history) and a supporting statement outlining how can meet the requirements of the role, in the context of the job description, person specification and questions outlined in the advert. All CVs and supporting statements should be sent via email to corporateaffairs@cntw.nhs.uk **If you have any queries regarding the application process, please contact Debbie Henderson, Director of Communications and Corporate Affairs via email at debbie.henderson@cntw.nhs.uk
Should you be interested in this role and would like to have an informal discussion with Darren Best, Chair Designate or James Duncan Chief Executive, please contact the Corporate Affairs Team via email at corporateaffairs@cntw.nhs.uk.
About us
We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please find attached job description and also ensure to read the attached 'Recruitment Pack'.
Closing date for applications: Midnight Sunday 22nd October 2023
Interviews will be held over two days during week commencing 6 November 2023
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please find attached job description and also ensure to read the attached 'Recruitment Pack'.
Closing date for applications: Midnight Sunday 22nd October 2023
Interviews will be held over two days during week commencing 6 November 2023
Person Specification
Background and experience
Essential
- Empathy, compassion and an understanding of the complex challenges of mental health and disability issues
- Board level experience in a large organisation whether gained in the private, public, or voluntary sector, well respected with strong reputation in their chosen field.
- A good knowledge and experience of corporate governance, strategy formulation, change management and financial management
- Politically astute, able to grasp relevant issues and understand the relationships between interested parties.
- Excellent partnership and relationship management skills; a good understanding of public and voluntary sector organisations
- Accustomed to being held to a high level of accountability and experienced in holding others to account
- Ability to understand and accept the legal duties and liabilities of Non- Executive Directors and the regulatory framework in which the NHS operates.
- Experience of leading and delivering transformational change in an open and inclusive way, with a natural ability to communicate with service users and carers, communities and colleagues as well as managing complex political environments
- Experience of effective joint working with other statutory, third sector or private sector organisations
- Qualified to be a member of the CNTW NHS FT (please refer to the Eligibility section of the recruitment website
Attributes, personal qualities and values
Essential
- Commitment to continuously improving outcomes, tackling health inequalities, and delivering the best value for money for the taxpayer
- Commitment to upholding, the NHS principles and values outlined in the NHS Constitution
- Commitment to ensuring that the organisation values diversity, and promotes equality and inclusivity in all aspects of their business
- Commitment to promoting integration where this is in the patients' best interest
- Committed to 'system working', partnering across organisations to deliver on key priorities set out in NHS Long Term Plan
- An effective decision maker who leads by example and can take others with them
- Flexible and adaptable in approach, enabling him/her to respond to the situation accordingly
- Strategic thinker with the ability to communicate a vision and engage followership
- Personal integrity and commitment to openness
- Independent in judgement
- Commitment to the NHS, CNTW and other partners within the system for the benefit of health services and the wider population
- Exceptional engagement skills; and able to communicate well with a range of people including staff and service users.
- Strong inter-personal skills to contribute to discussions to achieve common goals
- Ability to represent the Trust at regional and national levels
- Able to weigh up arguments and summarise key issues
- Commitment to NHS values and principles; understands aims of NHS Foundation Trusts; and demonstrates understanding of role of Governors.
- Ability to contribute to the development of a strong organisational values-driven culture.
Competencies
Essential
- Demonstrates an ability to work effectively and with sound judgement in a highly complex and dynamic environment
- The ability to develop, with service users, carers, colleagues and partners a clear and compelling organisational narrative that describes the future strategy of the Trust, and to communicate this narrative and progress to a wide range of audiences
- The ability to communicate complex health and care issues in laypersons language at public meetings.
- Understand and analyse complex issues, drawing on the breadth of data that needs to inform the Trust's deliberations and decision-making; and the wisdom to ensure that it is used ethically to balance competing priorities and make difficult decisions.
- The ability to influence and persuade others articulating a well-founded view and to engage in constructive debate without being adversarial or losing respect and goodwill
- The ability to take an objective view, seeing issues from all perspectives and especially external and service user and carer perspectives
- Capability to work across organisational boundaries
Leadership
Essential
- Contribute to setting the direction and strategy and aspirations of the Trust and act in a manner consistent with its values
- Create a compelling vision for the future and communicate this within and across organisations
- Work with others in teams and networks and engage, listen, and involve service users, carers and communities to provide services with a view to continuous improvement
- Demonstrate resilience, independence of thought, emotional intelligence, the ability to work through conflict and ambiguity and the ability to demonstrate a range of leadership styles to secure results
- A level of political astuteness with highly developed skills in engaging and influencing
- Demonstrate presence and engage people by the way they communicate, behave, and interact with others
Person Specification
Background and experience
Essential
- Empathy, compassion and an understanding of the complex challenges of mental health and disability issues
- Board level experience in a large organisation whether gained in the private, public, or voluntary sector, well respected with strong reputation in their chosen field.
- A good knowledge and experience of corporate governance, strategy formulation, change management and financial management
- Politically astute, able to grasp relevant issues and understand the relationships between interested parties.
- Excellent partnership and relationship management skills; a good understanding of public and voluntary sector organisations
- Accustomed to being held to a high level of accountability and experienced in holding others to account
- Ability to understand and accept the legal duties and liabilities of Non- Executive Directors and the regulatory framework in which the NHS operates.
- Experience of leading and delivering transformational change in an open and inclusive way, with a natural ability to communicate with service users and carers, communities and colleagues as well as managing complex political environments
- Experience of effective joint working with other statutory, third sector or private sector organisations
- Qualified to be a member of the CNTW NHS FT (please refer to the Eligibility section of the recruitment website
Attributes, personal qualities and values
Essential
- Commitment to continuously improving outcomes, tackling health inequalities, and delivering the best value for money for the taxpayer
- Commitment to upholding, the NHS principles and values outlined in the NHS Constitution
- Commitment to ensuring that the organisation values diversity, and promotes equality and inclusivity in all aspects of their business
- Commitment to promoting integration where this is in the patients' best interest
- Committed to 'system working', partnering across organisations to deliver on key priorities set out in NHS Long Term Plan
- An effective decision maker who leads by example and can take others with them
- Flexible and adaptable in approach, enabling him/her to respond to the situation accordingly
- Strategic thinker with the ability to communicate a vision and engage followership
- Personal integrity and commitment to openness
- Independent in judgement
- Commitment to the NHS, CNTW and other partners within the system for the benefit of health services and the wider population
- Exceptional engagement skills; and able to communicate well with a range of people including staff and service users.
- Strong inter-personal skills to contribute to discussions to achieve common goals
- Ability to represent the Trust at regional and national levels
- Able to weigh up arguments and summarise key issues
- Commitment to NHS values and principles; understands aims of NHS Foundation Trusts; and demonstrates understanding of role of Governors.
- Ability to contribute to the development of a strong organisational values-driven culture.
Competencies
Essential
- Demonstrates an ability to work effectively and with sound judgement in a highly complex and dynamic environment
- The ability to develop, with service users, carers, colleagues and partners a clear and compelling organisational narrative that describes the future strategy of the Trust, and to communicate this narrative and progress to a wide range of audiences
- The ability to communicate complex health and care issues in laypersons language at public meetings.
- Understand and analyse complex issues, drawing on the breadth of data that needs to inform the Trust's deliberations and decision-making; and the wisdom to ensure that it is used ethically to balance competing priorities and make difficult decisions.
- The ability to influence and persuade others articulating a well-founded view and to engage in constructive debate without being adversarial or losing respect and goodwill
- The ability to take an objective view, seeing issues from all perspectives and especially external and service user and carer perspectives
- Capability to work across organisational boundaries
Leadership
Essential
- Contribute to setting the direction and strategy and aspirations of the Trust and act in a manner consistent with its values
- Create a compelling vision for the future and communicate this within and across organisations
- Work with others in teams and networks and engage, listen, and involve service users, carers and communities to provide services with a view to continuous improvement
- Demonstrate resilience, independence of thought, emotional intelligence, the ability to work through conflict and ambiguity and the ability to demonstrate a range of leadership styles to secure results
- A level of political astuteness with highly developed skills in engaging and influencing
- Demonstrate presence and engage people by the way they communicate, behave, and interact with others
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.
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
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).
