Lay Chair for Appointment Advisory Committees (AAC's)

Job summary

The recruitment of Medical Consultants to an NHS Trust is a key activity to ensure the delivery of high-quality care to the local population. We are seeking two Lay Chairs to lead our interview panels (a Lay Chair is someone who is not an employee of the Trust). This is an important decision-making process and supports our ability to provide high quality safe care to our patients at Ashford & St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The process we follow is defined in the Department of Health, The National Health Service (Appointment of Consultants) Regulations, 2005.

Our preference is for local candidates who have a commitment to supporting the local health economy and who are eligible for membership of the hospital, but welcome applicants from neighbouring counties or London who would provide a complementary perspective. You may have a background, or interest in, People Services, Recruitment or business from your previous / current career. You will want to support the Trust in delivering high quality patient services.

If you are enthusiastic and passionate about the challenges this opportunity offers and believe that you have the experience and ambition to play a key role in delivering our vision, values, and strategic objectives, then we would welcome an application from you. We particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups within our Community.

Main duties of the job

The role of the Lay Chair involves:

• Ensuring AACs are planned effectively, conducted according to the Trust policy and procedure, national regulations for AACs and that matters are dealt with in an orderly, efficient manner.
• Facilitating constructive and productive panel discussions, enabling all panel members to contribute to decision making and managing disagreements in assessment of candidates between panel members.
• Bringing independence, external perspectives, skills and challenge to ensure a robust selection process for consultant appointments.
• Ensure that key decisions around selection are objective, based upon the person specification and that these decisions can be justified.

About us

Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.

Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.

We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at ASPH. We are committed to providing continuous professional development, staff benefits and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.

This is an exciting time to join our Trust, as we work on the expansion of our theatres at Ashford Hospital and move towards this becoming our dedicated elective centre. We want to create a state-of-the-art centre for excellence for planned surgical procedures; with care delivered by dedicated, specialist teams in a modern and well-equipped environment.

We hope to use this centre to create an environment of learning and to facilitate training of the next generation of our skilled NHS workforce. Our plans are ambitious - why not, come and be a part of our journey.

Adverts may close early, so applicants are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.

Employer details

Employer name

Ashford & St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St Peter's Hospital

Guildford Road

Chertsey

KT16 0PZ

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

Ashford & St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St Peter's Hospital

Guildford Road

Chertsey

KT16 0PZ

Employer's website

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

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