Job summary
Health Innovation Manchester (HInM) is a leading force in the discovery, development and implementation of innovation in healthcare to address the major challenges facing the delivery of safe and effective healthcare services to everyone.
We are seeking an inspirational leader and innovator to join our board as a Non-Executive Director to help harness the power of our exceptional academic and clinical assets and booming life sciences sector to achieve our aim of making Greater Manchester one of the most innovative health and social care systems around the world.
You will draw on your track record of success as a strategic leader in complex and fast-moving environments with a strong ability able to use your independence of thought, entrepreneurial spirit, and commercial and political astuteness to contribute as a full member of our highly respected board. You will be driven by a commitment to equality and diversity and addressing the health inequalities that affect the people of Greater Manchester and beyond. We are particularly interested in applications from individuals with deep commercial expertise in the health and life science sector or in digital technologies, or with a background in public private sector partnerships.
If this sounds like you, please read on.
Main duties of the job
As a Non-Executive Director on the HInM Board you will:
- Shape HInM's strategic direction and ensure its objectives are achieved
- Use your knowledge and experience to bring a fresh, independent perspective to the Board's thinking
- Be held to account and hold the Executives to account to deliver agreed plans and priorities and ensure HInM's budgets are aligned to its key objectives in order to achieve return on investment
- Ensure that HInMs financial, clinical and quality governance arrangements are robust
- Uphold HInMs values, and behaviours and promote equality and diversity both within and without the organisation
About us
Health Innovation Manchester is a partnership which brings together the NHS, Greater Manchester's 4 Universities and 10 Local Authorities, and industry innovators, with a shared vision to transform the health of GM's 2.8m citizens through the discovery and rapid deployment of industry-led innovations.
We're based at Citylabs, which is on the Manchester University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) Oxford Road site and the Oxford Road corridor, creating a world-class hub for health innovation and precision medicine, part of Europe's largest clinical academic campus. It's a great place to work, with easy access to Manchester City Centre and surrounded by health and university facilities. Our annual budget is circa £18m and we currently employ 129 staff on a variety of contracts'.
We've embraced agile working, with staff combining on-site and remote working, flat multi-disciplinary teams, rapid delivery of benefit through 'sprints' and a real focus on user-centric design. This means that we can come together when it matters most and promote a healthy work-life balance. Our culture is inclusive and welcomes anyone with a passion for innovation and a desire to make a difference. We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the job description & person specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading.
Candidate Information Pack
To request a copy of this pack, to arrange a confidential conversation or to find out more and to apply, please contact our Executive Search Partner; Hunter Healthcare; Janice Scanlan via telephone on 07939250362 or via email at jscanlan@hunter-healthcare.com.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know through experience that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better patient outcomes. We welcome all applications, especially those from underrepresented communities, including people with a disability, and those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds. We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, contact our Executive Search Partner; Hunter Healthcare via email at jscanlan@hunter-healthcare.com
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the job description & person specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading.
Candidate Information Pack
To request a copy of this pack, to arrange a confidential conversation or to find out more and to apply, please contact our Executive Search Partner; Hunter Healthcare; Janice Scanlan via telephone on 07939250362 or via email at jscanlan@hunter-healthcare.com.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know through experience that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better patient outcomes. We welcome all applications, especially those from underrepresented communities, including people with a disability, and those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds. We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, contact our Executive Search Partner; Hunter Healthcare via email at jscanlan@hunter-healthcare.com
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Background and Experience
Essential
- Evidence of success in chosen career with a track record of strategic leadership at Board level within a complex and fast-moving environment
- Experience of effective leadership working with a wide and complex range of internal and external stakeholders
- Experience of positively shaping the culture of an organisation
- Experience of leading innovation, improvement, performance management and change within a complex organisational setting
- Demonstrable commercial and political astuteness which will translate into an ability to think and act strategically for the benefit of HInM and its constituent members
- Experience of holding high levels of accountability
Skills, Knowledge and Personal Attributes
Essential
- Exceptional leadership skills, engendering respect and credibility from others
- An enthusiastic, enquiring mind, with the confidence to challenge constructively when appropriate and seek solutions to difficult problems
- Creative commercial skills
- An effective listener, able to weigh up arguments and summarise for others
- Highly developed interpersonal, influencing and communication skills
- Analytical and creative, with the ability to be independent in judgement
- Politically astute, effective negotiator, able to grasp relevant issues and understand the relationships between interested parties
- Sound knowledge and understanding of corporate governance
- Understanding and demonstration of behaviours that advance equality and diversity.
- Committed to improving health outcomes for the people of GM and the principles of the levelling up agenda
- Ability to effectively represent HInM to its constituents and partner organisations
Person Specification
Background and Experience
Essential
- Evidence of success in chosen career with a track record of strategic leadership at Board level within a complex and fast-moving environment
- Experience of effective leadership working with a wide and complex range of internal and external stakeholders
- Experience of positively shaping the culture of an organisation
- Experience of leading innovation, improvement, performance management and change within a complex organisational setting
- Demonstrable commercial and political astuteness which will translate into an ability to think and act strategically for the benefit of HInM and its constituent members
- Experience of holding high levels of accountability
Skills, Knowledge and Personal Attributes
Essential
- Exceptional leadership skills, engendering respect and credibility from others
- An enthusiastic, enquiring mind, with the confidence to challenge constructively when appropriate and seek solutions to difficult problems
- Creative commercial skills
- An effective listener, able to weigh up arguments and summarise for others
- Highly developed interpersonal, influencing and communication skills
- Analytical and creative, with the ability to be independent in judgement
- Politically astute, effective negotiator, able to grasp relevant issues and understand the relationships between interested parties
- Sound knowledge and understanding of corporate governance
- Understanding and demonstration of behaviours that advance equality and diversity.
- Committed to improving health outcomes for the people of GM and the principles of the levelling up agenda
- Ability to effectively represent HInM to its constituents and partner organisations
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).
