Chair

Job summary

We are looking for an outstanding individual to lead the Board, who will be able to bring to life the Trusts values in the way in which they live and work to ensure that the safety and quality of services is at the heart of all that we do.

We understand the importance of having a diverse range of experience and background on our board and ensuring that it is representative of the diversity of the population we serve and encourage applications from all groups.

Main duties of the job

You will need to have experience at Board level from an organisation of similar scale and complexity, ideally with some experience of health and care and with a passion for innovation, improvement and building strong partnerships. You are likely to already have a track record as a Non-Executive Director and potentially Chair of a Board or committee. Critically; you will need a genuine commitment to the people who need our services, their families and carers, and a passion for the development and improvement of mental health and learning disability healthcare across our region.

This is an exciting time for CWPT. The Board is in the process of resetting the Trust direction, which has resulted in some changes to the organisations core purpose including recalibrating its service portfolio. The Trust has a huge focus on becoming a centre of excellence for all-age mental health, learning disability and autism services, as well as developing integrated of childrens services. Our new Chair will have an opportunity to passionately champion, on behalf of the people who use our services within the system; to provide them with a voice and address health inequalities, head on.

About us

People at our Heart

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT) provides a range of physical, mental health and learning disability services to children and adultsacross Coventry and Warwickshire. We are a dispersed organisation operating out of over 50 sites whichprovide inpatient, community and day clinics, as well as specialist services, to a population of about 1 million. On average, we see around 5,000 patients every day.We are proud that our services received an overall rating of good by our regulator the Care Quality Commission.

CWPTs purpose is to make a positive difference to the health and wellbeing of people and communities who need our services and we have a vision to become an innovative, forward thinking, and inclusive teaching organisation, enabling us to provide consistently high quality, safe, and compassionate care through the dedication and hard work of our workforce of over 4,000 people.

We are a key partner of the Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care System (ICS) and work collaboratively across the Midlands region with providers of Mental Health Services and Learning Disability Services. We place huge importance in working in collaboration with others to deliver the best health outcomes for our service users.