Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Non-Executive Director

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Job summary

We are recruiting for a Non-Executive Director to serve on the Board at Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. This is an excellent opportunity to share your expertise and skills to make a positive difference to the communities we serve.

The Non-Executive Director will work with the Chair and other Executive and Non-Executive colleagues as a voting member of the Board. You will also work in partnership with the Assembly of Governors who are charged with holding the Non-Executive Directors to account for the performance of the Board of Directors.

Main duties of the job

You will need to have a genuine commitment to patients and the delivery of high quality care to all service users. You will be someone who is passionate about representing the needs of the diverse communities across the Black Country.

We are seeking a person with:

Clinical expertise, as a current or retired registered Medical professional

Understanding of the NHS Regulatory framework, particularly relating to CQC and NHSE

an ability to work with the Assembly of Governors

an understanding of the Black Country community

demonstrable empathy towards, service users of the Trust.

About us

The Trust was formed on 1 April 2020 through a merger between Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust. On 1 July 2022 the Trust became the Lead Provider for Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Autism in the Black Country.

Since then, we have continued to develop and respond to our changing environment and improve the offer for the population we serve. We became one of the first systems in the country to take on full lead provider/commissioner responsibilities for locally commissioned mental health (MH), learning disability and autism (LDA) services, and since then we have continued to lead the expansion and transformation of Black Country MH/LDA services.

We provide specialist mental health, learning disability, and community healthcare services for the population of the Black Country.

Across the whole of the region we provide:

Adult and older adult mental health services.
Specialist learning disability services.
Mental health services for children and young people.

The Trust has over 3,500 staff operating from over 65 sites including inpatient hospitals and community settings across the four boroughs of the Black Country.

Date posted

11 September 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£13,000 a year Per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

3 years

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

285-1208-CORP

Job locations

Wolverhampton Civic Centre

51 North Street

Wolverhampton

WV1 1SL

Job description

Job responsibilities

Role description

The Non-Executive Director will, in addition to their collective responsibility with colleague Directors, provide general counsel based on their knowledge and expertise such that the Chair and other Directors may seek their guidance on particular issues.

The key responsibilities of the Non-Executive Directors include the following:

commit to working to, and encouraging within the Trust, the highest standards of probity, integrity and governance and contribute to ensuring that the Trusts internal governance arrangements conform with best practice and statutory requirements;

provide independent judgement and advice on issues of strategy, vision, performance, resources and standards of conduct and constructively challenge, influence and help the Executive Team develop proposals on such strategies;

in accordance with board procedure, monitor the performance and conduct of management in meeting agreed goals and objectives and statutory responsibilities, including the preparation of annual reports and annual accounts, including the quality reports and accounts, and other statutory duties;

obtain comfort that financial information is accurate and that financial controls and risk management systems are robust and defensible;

obtain comfort that information about the quality and safety of services is accurate and that the associated systems are robust and defensible;

contribute to the determination of appropriate levels of remuneration for Executive Directors and other very senior managers;

participate in and if required chair the Trust committees, as well as take an active part in other committees established by the Board of Directors to exercise delegated responsibility;

as a member of board committees, appoint, remove, support, encourage and where appropriate mentor senior executives;

bring independent judgement and experience based on expertise from outside the Trust and apply this to the benefit of the Trust, its stakeholders and its wider community;

assist fellow Directors in setting the Trusts strategic aims, ensuring that the necessary financial, human and other resources are in place for the Trust to meet its objectives, and that performance is effectively monitored and reviewed;

ssist fellow Directors in providing entrepreneurial leadership to the Trust within a framework of prudent and effective controls, which enable risk to be assessed and managed;

assist fellow Directors in setting the Trusts values and standards and ensure its obligations to its stakeholders and the wider community are understood and fairly balanced at all times;

engage positively and collaboratively in board discussion of agenda items and act as an ambassador for the Trust in engagement with stakeholders including the local community, dealing with the media when appropriate;

Term of Office

The initial term of office is for three years.

Termination of a Non-Executive Directorship of the Trust, other than on the expiry of a term of office, is a matter for the Assembly of Governors.

Non-Executive Directors will be subject to regular appraisal by the Chair, in accordance with a process approved by the Assembly of Governors.