Job summary
Join Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust as a Trust Secretary and play a pivotal role at the heart of our organisation. You'll be instrumental in supporting our Chief Executive, Chair, and Directors, ensuring effective leadership and management. Your expertise will be crucial in maintaining the highest standards of corporate governance, enabling our Trust Board to fulfil its duties efficiently and effectively.
As Trust Secretary, you'll provide expert committee secretariat and governance support, combining strong technical knowledge with sound judgement in complex situations. You will guide executive and hospital site management teams to establish robust corporate governance arrangements.
Main duties of the job
- Advise and support the Chief Executive and Chair on governance matters.
- Manage Board, sub-committee, and senior management team meetings, ensuring smooth operation and effectiveness.
- Implement development programs for the Board of Directors to enhance their skills and knowledge.
- Lead the Corporate Governance agenda, ensuring compliance with legal, constitutional, and regulatory requirements and best practices.
- Manage registration and reporting requirements with regulatory bodies.
- Oversee insurance matters to ensure adequate coverage for the Trust.
- Ensure Trust Board compliance with relevant legislation, regulations, and the Code of Governance.
- Develop relationships with senior staff, regulators, the public, and external stakeholders.
- Foster a culture of high performance by building strong relationships across the Board.
About us
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital Trust in the county of Kent.
The Trust provides a full range of general hospital services and some areas of specialist complex care to around 760,000 people living in the south part of West Kent and the north part of East Sussex.
The Trust's core catchment areas are Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells and their surrounding boroughs. We work from two main clinical sites: Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury. Tunbridge Wells Hospital opened in 2011 and provides single rooms with en-suites for all in-patients - the first of its kind in the country.
We employ more than 7,000 full and part-time staff in a huge range of clinical and non-clinical roles across both of our hospital sites. Would you like to work flexibly?In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
At MTW, we seek to develop a culture where everyone can reach their full potential with opportunities to grow and develop their career. We recognise and value the unique contributions that each of our staff bring, delivering the best quality care and service to our patients. We are committed to being a diverse employer and strive to reflect everyone in our local communities. We welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experiences and celebrate the diversity of thought, viewpoints and ideas that will make our Trust the best place to work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We support our staff with disabilities to ensure they have the adjustments they need to be the best they can be in the workplace.Collaborating with Access to Work means that our staff are assessed by experts in the workplace and we ensure that their recommendations are implemented as quickly as possible. You can find out more here: Access to Work: get support if you have a disability or health condition: What Access to Work is - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Interview Date: 8th July 2024
Job description
Job responsibilities
We support our staff with disabilities to ensure they have the adjustments they need to be the best they can be in the workplace.Collaborating with Access to Work means that our staff are assessed by experts in the workplace and we ensure that their recommendations are implemented as quickly as possible. You can find out more here: Access to Work: get support if you have a disability or health condition: What Access to Work is - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Interview Date: 8th July 2024
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to at least masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior management level in specialist area
- Chartered Governance Institute (CGI) qualified or equivalent qualification
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent
Desirable
- Member of associated professional body desirable
Experience/Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of working at a senior management level over a long period of time within portfolio area
- In-depth experience in a senior corporate governance role.
- Experience and knowledge of regulatory matters, NHS compliance and corporate governance.
- Extensive experience of Board and Committee administration - proficient at minute-taking
- Able to demonstrate an in-depth knowledge/understanding of corporate and governance conduct principles, legislation and best practice and able to evidence application of this knowledge in a complex organisation
- Able to evidence application of advanced organisational management skills and delivery of complex organisational tasks
- Experience of identifying and interpreting National policy.
- Experience of researching best practice (private, and public sector), interpreting its relevance and processes / practices which could be implemented successfully to achieve system improvement (advising on policy implementation)
Desirable
- Implementation and management of governance frameworks
- Experience of advising and working directly with the Chief Executive and the Chair
- An understanding of the relationship between the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), NHS England and individual provider and commissioning organisations
Skills
Essential
- Highly developed communication skills with the ability to communicate on highly complex matters and difficult situations
- Ability to provide and receive, convey and present highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious information to large groups, responding openly to questions to ensure full understanding and engagement
- Ability to communicate with clinical, academic and all levels of staff effectively
- High level analytical skills and the ability to draw qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources and present in a clear concise manner
Desirable
- Proficient in IT packages
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to at least masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior management level in specialist area
- Chartered Governance Institute (CGI) qualified or equivalent qualification
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent
Desirable
- Member of associated professional body desirable
Experience/Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of working at a senior management level over a long period of time within portfolio area
- In-depth experience in a senior corporate governance role.
- Experience and knowledge of regulatory matters, NHS compliance and corporate governance.
- Extensive experience of Board and Committee administration - proficient at minute-taking
- Able to demonstrate an in-depth knowledge/understanding of corporate and governance conduct principles, legislation and best practice and able to evidence application of this knowledge in a complex organisation
- Able to evidence application of advanced organisational management skills and delivery of complex organisational tasks
- Experience of identifying and interpreting National policy.
- Experience of researching best practice (private, and public sector), interpreting its relevance and processes / practices which could be implemented successfully to achieve system improvement (advising on policy implementation)
Desirable
- Implementation and management of governance frameworks
- Experience of advising and working directly with the Chief Executive and the Chair
- An understanding of the relationship between the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), NHS England and individual provider and commissioning organisations
Skills
Essential
- Highly developed communication skills with the ability to communicate on highly complex matters and difficult situations
- Ability to provide and receive, convey and present highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious information to large groups, responding openly to questions to ensure full understanding and engagement
- Ability to communicate with clinical, academic and all levels of staff effectively
- High level analytical skills and the ability to draw qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources and present in a clear concise manner
Desirable
- Proficient in IT packages
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).
