Job summary
Joining the Board of the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as our new Non-Executive Director and Chair of Finance, Performance and Investment Committee is a rare and impactful opportunity to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of a large teaching hospital with over £810m turnover, and a wider health and care system, serving over one million people across Norfolk and the surrounding regions.
At Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, we are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse Board that reflects the communities we serve. We encourage applications from those with a close connection to the regions served by the Trust, and ideally from individuals who are currently underrepresented on our Board, including those from Black, Asian, and Ethnic Minority communities, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, younger individuals, and those from diverse socio-economic backgrounds.
If you have the experience, vision, and dedication to contribute effectively to our Trust and ensure we deliver genuine cultural change to foster a positive and inclusive work environment, and further provide expert and compassionate care to the communities we serve, please contact Yvonne Okyere-Whalley, Researcher, or Thomas Patterson, Managing Director at Alumni Global on +44(0) 7842 003197 for a confidential discussion. Alternatively, please submit your application directly via https://alumniglobal.com/job/nnuh-ned.
Main duties of the job
In joining us at this critical juncture you will have the opportunity to:
Provide Strategic Input: You will work as a full and equal member of the Board, contributing to the development of strategy, helping to set a compelling, sustainable and patient focused future direction for our hospital and the Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care System we are proudly a part of.
Strengthen Governance: Non-Executive Directors are jointly accountable with Executive Directors for the delivery of the Trusts key objectives, and you will help ensure that we uphold the highest standards of corporate governance and ethical conduct, including through your role as Committee Chair.
As our new Non-Executive Director, we are seeking talented and skilled current or aspirant Non-Executive Directors who can demonstrate:
Relevant Experience at or Close to Board Level: Whether you are currently a NED or keen to take up this role for the first time, you will demonstrate a track record of success in a senior leadership position in an organisation of comparable scale and complexity to our Trust, with relevant skills to Chair the Finance, Performance and Investment Committee.
An Understanding of the Role of a NED: You will appreciate how to operate as a Non-Executive Board Member, able to use analytical thinking, creativity and objectivity to scrutinise performance, hold Executives to account and be a full member of the unitary board.
About us
Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff!
The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first-class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute. We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students. We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world.
We are a friendly, collaborative hospital, working with local services and home to N&N Hospitals Charity
We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:
- Flexible working hours
- Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service
- Multi Faith prayer room
- Discounted gym memberships
- Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
- Wagestream - access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it
- Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH site
- Free 24-hours confidential counselling support
- On-site Nursery
- On-site cafes offering staff discounts
- Support in career development
- Flexible staff bank
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics
Job description
Job responsibilities
An Alignment with our Values: You will embody our PRIDE values which support our vision and guide the behaviour of everything we do. Demonstrating a commitment to equity and inclusion with outstanding communication skills, you will support cultural change programmes, work effectively with diverse stakeholders and foster partnership working.
Influence Cultural Change: You will promote equity and inclusion, ensure a culture of freedom to speak up and psychological safety, and foster relationships to enhance system working with our partners to improve patient outcomes.
While we take pride in our recent accomplishments, we acknowledge the ongoing challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for our Trust and the broader health and care community we proudly serve and are part of.
Non-Executive Directors will:
- Provide support and constructive challenge to ensure that the proposed decisions of the Board are made on well-founded information and having undertaken appropriate due diligence.
- Support a positive culture throughout the Trust and adopt behaviours in the Boardroom and elsewhere that exemplify the corporate culture.
- Hold Executive Directors to account for the effective management and delivery of key targets and strategic objectives.
- Commit to working to and encouraging within the Trust the high standards of corporate and personal conduct as stated in the Nolan principles of standards of conduct in public life and uphold the highest ethical standards of integrity and probity.
- Provide independent judgement on, and help to shape, strategy and vision and ensure the Executive Team develop and implement proposals for the these.
- Provide independent judgement on the Trusts system partnership working with the ICS and ensure the Executive Team develop and implement proposals for the these.
- Chair and participate in relevant committees established by the Board of Directors to exercise delegated responsibility. In respect of this role, it will include chairing the Boards Sub Committee for Finance, Investment & Performance
- Bring independent judgement and expertise based on previous experience and apply this for the benefit of the Trust, its stakeholders, and its wider community.
- In addition, the role will take the champion role on the Board for both asset management and prevention of violence & aggression against staff
- Scrutinise the performance of management in meeting agreed goals and objectives and regularly review performance.
- Determine appropriate levels of remuneration of executive directors and for the appointment of the chief executive and other executive directors, ensuring that the appropriate recruitment process is followed.
- Demonstrate independence in character and judgement and have an enquiring mind; have a broad understanding of the wider NHS and the external environment in which it operates and be able to develop a strong command of issues relevant to NNUH.
- Engage positively and collaboratively in Board discussion of agenda items and acts as an ambassador for the Trust in engaging with stakeholders including the local community.
- Support executives in their leadership of the Trust whilst monitoring their performance.
- Question intelligently, debate constructively, challenge rigorously and decide dispassionately.
- Listen sensitively to the views of others.
- Promote openness and Trust in relationships with all Board Members.
Job description
Job responsibilities
An Alignment with our Values: You will embody our PRIDE values which support our vision and guide the behaviour of everything we do. Demonstrating a commitment to equity and inclusion with outstanding communication skills, you will support cultural change programmes, work effectively with diverse stakeholders and foster partnership working.
Influence Cultural Change: You will promote equity and inclusion, ensure a culture of freedom to speak up and psychological safety, and foster relationships to enhance system working with our partners to improve patient outcomes.
While we take pride in our recent accomplishments, we acknowledge the ongoing challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for our Trust and the broader health and care community we proudly serve and are part of.
Non-Executive Directors will:
- Provide support and constructive challenge to ensure that the proposed decisions of the Board are made on well-founded information and having undertaken appropriate due diligence.
- Support a positive culture throughout the Trust and adopt behaviours in the Boardroom and elsewhere that exemplify the corporate culture.
- Hold Executive Directors to account for the effective management and delivery of key targets and strategic objectives.
- Commit to working to and encouraging within the Trust the high standards of corporate and personal conduct as stated in the Nolan principles of standards of conduct in public life and uphold the highest ethical standards of integrity and probity.
- Provide independent judgement on, and help to shape, strategy and vision and ensure the Executive Team develop and implement proposals for the these.
- Provide independent judgement on the Trusts system partnership working with the ICS and ensure the Executive Team develop and implement proposals for the these.
- Chair and participate in relevant committees established by the Board of Directors to exercise delegated responsibility. In respect of this role, it will include chairing the Boards Sub Committee for Finance, Investment & Performance
- Bring independent judgement and expertise based on previous experience and apply this for the benefit of the Trust, its stakeholders, and its wider community.
- In addition, the role will take the champion role on the Board for both asset management and prevention of violence & aggression against staff
- Scrutinise the performance of management in meeting agreed goals and objectives and regularly review performance.
- Determine appropriate levels of remuneration of executive directors and for the appointment of the chief executive and other executive directors, ensuring that the appropriate recruitment process is followed.
- Demonstrate independence in character and judgement and have an enquiring mind; have a broad understanding of the wider NHS and the external environment in which it operates and be able to develop a strong command of issues relevant to NNUH.
- Engage positively and collaboratively in Board discussion of agenda items and acts as an ambassador for the Trust in engaging with stakeholders including the local community.
- Support executives in their leadership of the Trust whilst monitoring their performance.
- Question intelligently, debate constructively, challenge rigorously and decide dispassionately.
- Listen sensitively to the views of others.
- Promote openness and Trust in relationships with all Board Members.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Substantial senior or Board level experience (director or partner level) and a track record of executive leadership gained in a complex organisation, whether private, public, or voluntary sector
- Evidence of providing effective strategic direction supported by knowledge of governance and how Boards should add value
- Experience of supporting cultural change programmes across complex organisations
- Experience of supporting large-scale change in complex organisations
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Substantial senior or Board level experience (director or partner level) and a track record of executive leadership gained in a complex organisation, whether private, public, or voluntary sector
- Evidence of providing effective strategic direction supported by knowledge of governance and how Boards should add value
- Experience of supporting cultural change programmes across complex organisations
- Experience of supporting large-scale change in complex 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).
