Non Executive Director - Clinical

Job description

Job responsibilities

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategic Leadership & Clinical Quality

Provide authoritative clinical insight to inform longterm organisational strategy, ensuring service development, workforce planning and transformation programmes reflect best practice and evidencebased care.

Review and oversee strategies relating to quality improvement, patient safety, clinical effectiveness and professional standards.

Offer independent challenge on proposals affecting clinical pathways, models of care, or patient outcomes.

Hold the Executive Team to account for delivering highquality, safe and personcentred care, ensuring quality and safety are prioritised alongside operational and financial considerations.

Assurance, Governance & Risk

Ensure that clinical governance frameworks, risk management systems, and regulatory compliance processes are rigorous, defensible and aligned to national requirements (including CQC expectations).

Scrutinise quality, safety and performance reports, triangulating data across clinical, operational, workforce and patientexperience domains.

Support the Quality Committee (or equivalent) by offering independent, evidenceinformed judgement on clinical matters.

Promote a culture of early risk identification, transparent learning from incidents, and continuous improvement.

Culture, Values & Workforce Leadership

Champion the Trusts values of Caring, Safe, Respectful across all clinical-related governance and decisionmaking.

Act as a visible advocate for a compassionate, open and inclusive culture, encouraging professional integrity, high standards and safe behaviours.

Promote initiatives that support staff wellbeing, clinical leadership development, safe staffing and a positive working environment.

Ensure equality, diversity and inclusion are embedded within the clinical workforce and care delivery.

Relationship with the Council of Governors

Maintain a constructive relationship with the Council of Governors, ensuring they receive clear, meaningful insight into clinical performance, risks and strategic priorities.

Attend relevant Governor meetings to support their statutory responsibility in holding NEDs to account for quality, safety and patientcentred outcomes.

Provide assurance to Governors that the Board is effectively overseeing clinical quality and regulatory compliance.

External Influence & Partnerships

Represent the Trust within wider system leadership forums, including the Integrated Care System (ICS), contributing clinical expertise to collaborative planning and service redesign.

Build strong relationships with partner organisations, regulators, healthcare providers, local authorities and community stakeholders.

Support the development of integrated, systemwide models of care that improve population health outcomes and reduce health inequalities

Eligibility & Regulatory Requirements

Must be a member of the Trusts public constituency.

Must satisfy the NHS England Fit and Proper Persons Framework Regulations and not be disqualified under the Trust Constitution or Provider Licence.

Expected to uphold the highest standards of probity, integrity and conduct as set out in the Boards Code of Conduct.

Person Specification

Eligibility

Essential

• Qualifies as a member of Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
• Eligible for appointment in line with the Trust Constitution, "Fit and Proper Persons" requirement and criteria for disqualification

Education & Qualification

Essential

• Recognised clinical qualification in medicine, nursing, or allied health profession.

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

• Experience of operating at Board level in a large and/or complex organisation
• Experience in complex organisations and strategic partnership working.
• Clinical experience with strong NHS service delivery background.
• Ability to contribute across governance, quality, planning, finance and advocacy.
• Experience advocating for patient needs and improving care quality.
• Understanding complex organisations and assurance processes.

Desirable

• HR/OD, EDI, digital innovation, community involvement, voluntary sector, service transformation.

Skills and abilities

Essential

• Excellent communication and influencing skills
• Ability to challenge constructively and think strategically.
• Ability to analyse complex clinical and organisational information.
• Capability to work effectively in a unitary Board.
• Efficient chairing of committees.
• Understanding the needs of diverse staff, patients and partners.
• Understanding of the local demographic

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).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Blackpool Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Whinney Heys Road

Blackpool

FY3 8NR

Employer's website

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