Health Innovation North West Coast - Non Executive Director

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

As a NED of the HiN NWC Board you will be required to undertake the following key responsibilities:

Strategy

Support the Chair in providing visible leadership in developing a positive culture for the AHSN, by facilitating a close and constructive working relationship between all Board members, built on transparency, openness, mutual respect and trust, valuing the contribution of all Board members.

To provide independent judgment and advice on issues of strategy, vision, performance, resources and standards of conduct and constructively challenge, influence and assist the Executive Team in developing proposals on such strategies.

Horizon scan regionally and nationally to bring good practice and foresight to further develop HiN NWC.

Develop and maintain strategic networks that will be of benefit to the HiN NWC.

Governance

To bring independent judgment and experience based on commercial, medical, financial, legal or governance expertise from outside of the HiN NWC and apply this to the benefit of HiN NWC, its members and its wider community.

To commit to working to, and encouraging, within the HiN NWC, the highest standards of probity, integrity and governance and contribute to ensuring that the HiN NWC internal governance arrangements conform to best practice and statutory requirements.

Communication and relationships

Develop a constructive, frank and open relationship with the Chief Executive and Directors of HiN NWC through regular communication and to provide support and advice while respecting executive responsibility.

In consultation, with the Chair, take an active part in other Committees established by the Board to exercise delegated responsibilities.

To liaise with the Chief Executive concerning correspondence received from membership,

To act as an ambassador, represent and promote actively HiN NWC and build up strong partnerships with members, affiliated organisations, the public, investors and national bodies.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Health Innovation NWC is committed to developing a diverse, multicultural team from with a range of backgrounds and experiences. As a non executive director you will be expected to assist

The ongoing development of the organisational EDI strategy and its demonstrable deployment within the team

Oversight of organisational recruitment ensuring that our workforce is matched to the population we serve

Scrutiny of programme activity including equality impact assessment.

As a Non Executive Director of the Board you must:

Establish and maintain confidence in HiN NWC, be independent in judgment and have an enquiring mind. To be effective you will have an understanding of healthcare and the external environment in which it operates and become well informed about the work of and develop a good knowledge of issues relevant to HiN NWC. You will continually develop and refresh your knowledge and skills to ensure that your contribution remains informed and relevant.

Promote the vision, values and goals of the organisation through appropriate and visible leadership behaviours and actions.

Uphold the highest of ethical standards of integrity and probity.

Create a culture of listening, openness, constructive challenge and support.

Act with integrity, objectivity, honesty and openness.

Demonstrate high standards of corporate and personal conduct as stated in the Nolan principles of standards of conduct in public life.

Be an ambassador for Health Innovation NWC.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Demonstrable experience of effective partnership working with a range of agencies and stakeholders
• A strong track record of successfully achieving performance targets
• Strong evidence of effective partnership working and stakeholder management both with and beyond the NHS sector.
• A strong record of leading and holding senior officers to account for high performance.
• Experience of developing and implementing a strategic vision for an organisation with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Experience of working at Director level
• Experience of being the member of a Board of a complex organisation.
• Strong evidence of working with Black,Asian and minority ethnic groups and leading on equality, diversity and inclusion

Desirable

• Commercial experience, with the ability to create business opportunities

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrable understanding of the NHS and the context in which it operates.
• Experience of working in or at least with an NHS organisation at senior level

Desirable

• Demonstrable understanding of health related research and the issues relevant to it.
• Awareness of best practice and statutory requirements relevant to Health Innovation Network governance

Communication and Relationship Skills

Essential

• Highly developed verbal and non-verbal communication skills across a range of stakeholders and circumstances.
• High level of communication and listening skills with the gravitas to support and challenge senior clinicians and other senior stakeholders at regional, national and international level.
• High level of Influencing, persuasion and negotiating skills.
• Ability to challenge effectively.
• Ability to demonstrate warmth and empathy when communicating.
• The ability to motivate and inspire staff at all levels.

Analytical and judgment skills

Essential

• Experience in exercising judgment involving complex facts and situations, requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options.

Aptitude and style

Essential

• Intellectually flexible, to think broadly and creatively to develop new solutions to difficult issues.
• Experience of developing effective relationships and sustainable partnerships with a wide and diverse range of stakeholders.
• Ability to simultaneously and successfully lead strategic change, performance improvement and cost-effective service delivery.
• Resilience, innovation and the ability to influence at regional, national and international level.
• A commitment to equality, diversity and wider human rights.

Motivation and disposition

Essential

• The drive and determination to make a difference.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital

Address

Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital

Thomas Drive

Liverpool

Merseyside

L14 3PE

Employer's website

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