Job summary
We are recruiting for a Non-Executive Director to serve on the Board at Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. This is an excellent opportunity to share your expertise and skills to make a positive difference to the communities we serve.
The Non-Executive Director will work with the Chair and other Executive and Non-Executive colleagues as a voting member of the Board. You will also work in partnership with the Council of Governors who are charged with holding the Non-Executive Directors to account for the performance of the Board of Directors.
Main duties of the job
You will need to have a genuine commitment to patients and the delivery of high quality care to all service users. You will be someone who is passionate about representing the needs of the diverse communities across the Black Country.
We are seeking a person with:
Extensive experience in a senior clinical role within the NHS or equivalent healthcare setting.
Awareness of the Mental Health Act and its application in practice.
Proven ability to contribute to strategic discussions on patient care and service delivery.
Experience in clinical governance and risk management frameworks.
A commitment to promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion in healthcare.
The time commitment is expected, between 3 and 4 days per month
About us
Our Trust has recently celebrated its 5th birthday, having been established on 1 April 2020 through the merger of Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust.
We provide specialist mental health, learning disability and community healthcare services for a Black Country population of 1.26 million. Across the Black Country we provide:
Adult and older adult mental health services
Specialist learning disability services
Mental health services for children and young people
Our trust family of over 4,000 dedicated staff work from approximately 50 sites, including inpatient hospitals and community settings across Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton.
On 1 July 2022, we were among the first NHS trusts in the country, to take on the lead provider/commissioner responsibilities for mental health, learning disabilities and autism services in the Black Country. We are proud to work alongside our communities to co-design, commission and co-deliver mental health, learning disability and autism support, right across the Black Country. We want to achieve the best for the Black Country, and we know that key to this is ensuring we better understand, and connect, to our communities every day.
Collaborating with others to support our communities is central to everything we do. We proactively work with our local authority and NHS partners, as well other organisations in our community.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Non-Executive Director will, in addition to their collective responsibility with colleague Directors, provide general counsel based on their knowledge and expertise such that the Chair and other Directors may seek their guidance on particular issues.
The key responsibilities of the Non-Executive Directors include the following:
commit to working to, and encouraging within the Trust, the highest standards of probity, integrity and governance and contribute to ensuring that the Trusts internal governance arrangements conform with best practice and statutory requirements;
provide independent judgement and advice on issues of strategy, vision, performance, resources and standards of conduct and constructively challenge, influence and help the Executive Team develop proposals on such strategies;
in accordance with board procedure, monitor the performance and conduct of management in meeting agreed goals and objectives and statutory responsibilities, including the preparation of annual reports and annual accounts, including the quality reports and accounts, and other statutory duties;
obtain comfort that financial information is accurate and that financial controls and risk management systems are robust and defensible;
obtain comfort that information about the quality and safety of services is accurate and that the associated systems are robust and defensible;
contribute to the determination of appropriate levels of remuneration for Executive Directors and other very senior managers;
participate in and if required chair the Trust committees, as well as take an active part in other committees established by the Board of Directors to exercise delegated responsibility;
as a member of board committees, appoint, remove, support, encourage and where appropriate mentor senior executives;
bring independent judgement and experience based on expertise from outside the Trust and apply this to the benefit of the Trust, its stakeholders and its wider community;
assist fellow Directors in setting the Trusts strategic aims, ensuring that the necessary financial, human and other resources are in place for the Trust to meet its objectives, and that performance is effectively monitored and reviewed;
assist fellow Directors in providing entrepreneurial leadership to the Trust within a framework of prudent and effective controls, which enable risk to be assessed and managed;
assist fellow Directors in setting the Trusts values and standards and ensure its obligations to its stakeholders and the wider community are understood and fairly balanced at all times;
engage positively and collaboratively in board discussion of agenda items and act as an ambassador for the Trust in engagement with stakeholders including the local community, dealing with the media when appropriate
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Non-Executive Director will, in addition to their collective responsibility with colleague Directors, provide general counsel based on their knowledge and expertise such that the Chair and other Directors may seek their guidance on particular issues.
The key responsibilities of the Non-Executive Directors include the following:
commit to working to, and encouraging within the Trust, the highest standards of probity, integrity and governance and contribute to ensuring that the Trusts internal governance arrangements conform with best practice and statutory requirements;
provide independent judgement and advice on issues of strategy, vision, performance, resources and standards of conduct and constructively challenge, influence and help the Executive Team develop proposals on such strategies;
in accordance with board procedure, monitor the performance and conduct of management in meeting agreed goals and objectives and statutory responsibilities, including the preparation of annual reports and annual accounts, including the quality reports and accounts, and other statutory duties;
obtain comfort that financial information is accurate and that financial controls and risk management systems are robust and defensible;
obtain comfort that information about the quality and safety of services is accurate and that the associated systems are robust and defensible;
contribute to the determination of appropriate levels of remuneration for Executive Directors and other very senior managers;
participate in and if required chair the Trust committees, as well as take an active part in other committees established by the Board of Directors to exercise delegated responsibility;
as a member of board committees, appoint, remove, support, encourage and where appropriate mentor senior executives;
bring independent judgement and experience based on expertise from outside the Trust and apply this to the benefit of the Trust, its stakeholders and its wider community;
assist fellow Directors in setting the Trusts strategic aims, ensuring that the necessary financial, human and other resources are in place for the Trust to meet its objectives, and that performance is effectively monitored and reviewed;
assist fellow Directors in providing entrepreneurial leadership to the Trust within a framework of prudent and effective controls, which enable risk to be assessed and managed;
assist fellow Directors in setting the Trusts values and standards and ensure its obligations to its stakeholders and the wider community are understood and fairly balanced at all times;
engage positively and collaboratively in board discussion of agenda items and act as an ambassador for the Trust in engagement with stakeholders including the local community, dealing with the media when appropriate
Person Specification
Application form
Essential
Desirable
- Previous Board member experience
Person Specification
Application form
Essential
Desirable
- Previous Board member experience
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
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).
