Joint Chair

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached application pack which provides further details on this joint position between Liverpool University Hospitals and the Liverpool Women's Hospital.

Person Specification

Values

Essential

• A clear commitment to the NHS and the Trust's values and principles

Strategic

Essential

• significant and demonstrable experience of leading and delivering against long-term vision and strategy
• extensive experience as a Chair in the NHS or a similar complex organisation
• experience leading transformational change, managing complex organisations, budgets and people

Desirable

• prior experience as a non-executive director (any sector)
• prior experience on an NHS board (executive, non-executive or associate role)
• professional qualification or equivalent experience
• prior senior experience of complex organisations outside the NHS, i.e. private, voluntary or other public sector providers of similar scale.

People

Essential

• strong interpersonal, communication and leadership skills
• experience of building effective teams, encouraging change and innovation and shaping an open, inclusive and compassionate culture through setting the right tone at the top
• strongly focused on the experience of all staff and patients
• fully attentive towards issues of equality, diversity and inclusion, and championing diversity at all levels.

Professional Acumen

Essential

• prior significant board experience (any sector chief executive or chair role)
• evidence of successfully demonstrating the NHS provider chair competencies in other leadership roles
• an ability to identify and address issues, including underperformance, and to scrutinise and challenge information effectively for assurance.

Outcomes focus

Essential

• a demonstrable interest in health and social care and a strong desire to achieve the best sustainable outcomes for all patients and service users through encouraging continuous improvement, clinical excellence and value for money
• strong understanding of financial management, with the ability to balance the competing objectives of quality, operational performance and finance
• an appreciation of constitutional and regulatory NHS standards.

Partnerships

Essential

• a desire to engage with the local population and to collaborate with senior stakeholders across the health and care system
• experience managing conflict, finding compromise and building consensus across varied stakeholder groups with potentially conflicting priorities.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Liverpool

Liverpool

L8 7SS

Employer's website

https://www.liverpoolwomens.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)