NHS Dorset Integrated Care Board Chair

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information, please see Candidate Information pack.

The Chair of NHS Dorset is accountable for ensuring there is a long-term, viable strategy in place for the delivery of the functions, duties and objectives of the Integrated Care Board and for the stewardship of public money.

The Chair champions action to help meet the four core purposes of Integrated Care Systems; to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare; tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access; enhance productivity and value for money and help the NHS support broader social and economic development.

The Chair is an ambassador for and champion of effective partnership working with local government and NHS bodies, collaborative leadership and new governance arrangements across the Integrated Care System.

Leaders in the NHS help deliver better health and care for patients by setting the tone for their organisation, team culture and performance. We have worked with a wide range of leaders from across the NHS to help describe what we do when we operate at our best.

The six NHS leadership competency domains are:

Driving high-quality and sustainable outcomes

The skills, knowledge and behaviours needed to deliver and bring about high quality and safe care and lasting change and improvement from ensuring all staff are trained and well led, to fostering improvement and innovation which leads to better health and care outcomes. Candidates will have:

• A demonstrable interest in health and social care and a strong desire to achieve the best sustainable outcomes for all patients and service users through encouraging continuous improvement, clinical excellence and value for money
• Strong understanding of financial management, with the ability to balance the competing objectives of quality, operational performance and finance
• An appreciation of constitutional and regulatory NHS standards

Setting strategy and delivering long-term transformation

The skills that need to be employed in strategy development and planning, and ensuring a system wide view, along with using intelligence from quality, performance, finance and workforce measures to feed into strategy development. Candidates will have:

• Experience of leading and delivering against long-term vision and strategy
• Experience leading transformational change, managing complex organisations, budgets and people

Promoting equality and inclusion, and reducing health and workforce inequalities

The importance of continually reviewing plans and strategies to ensure their delivery leads to improved services and outcomes for all communities, narrows health and workforce inequalities, and promotes inclusion. Candidates will have:

• A clear commitment towards issues of equality, diversity and inclusion
• Significant experience of engaging with the diverse social, economic and cultural groups served by the organisation

Providing robust governance and assurance

The system of leadership accountability and the behaviours, values and standards that underpin our work as leaders. This domain also covers the principles of evaluation, the significance of evidence and assurance in decision making and ensuring patient safety, and the vital importance of collaboration on the board to drive delivery and improvement. Candidates will have:

• Prior board experience (any sector, executive or non-executive role)
• Evidence of successfully demonstrating the NHS Leadership competencies in other leadership roles
• An ability to identify and address issues, including underperformance, and to scrutinise and challenge information effectively for assurance

Creating a compassionate, just and positive culture

The skills and behaviours needed to develop great team and organisation cultures. This includes ensuring all staff and service users are listened to and heard, being respectful and challenging inappropriate behaviours. Candidates will have:

• A clear commitment to the NHS and the organisations values and principles
• Experience of building effective teams, encouraging change and innovation and shaping an open, inclusive and compassionate culture through setting the right tone at the top and championing diversity at, and across, all levels
• Strongly focused on the experience of all staff and patients
• Experience managing conflict, finding compromise and building consensus across varied stakeholder groups with potentially conflicting priorities

Building a trusted relationship with partners and communities

The need to collaborate, consult and co-produce with colleagues in neighbouring teams, providers and systems, people using services, our communities, and our workforce. Strengthening relationships and developing collaborative behaviours are key to the integrated care environment. Candidates will have:

• A desire to engage with the local population and to collaborate with senior stakeholders across the health and care system
• Strong interpersonal, communication and leadership skills

Person Specification

Skills, values and knowledge

Essential

• Extensive knowledge of the health, care and local government landscape
• An understanding of different sectors, groups, networks and the needs of diverse populations
• A deep understanding of the NHS triple aim (of improved population health, quality of care and cost-control), the Kark review, and commitment to the values of the NHS Long Term Plan, the NHS People Plan, Nolan principles and the Standards for members of NHS Boards and Governing Bodies in England
• An awareness and appreciation of social justice and how it might apply within an ICS
• Sound understanding of good corporate governance as well as the difference between governance and management
• The ability to lead and build strong relationships across different sectors, and to adapt to changing situations
• Exceptional communication skills and be comfortable presenting in a variety of contexts, with experience of dealing with the media and / or politicians on topics of healthcare or other public sector activities
• Ability to remain independent and neutral to provide independent and unbiased leadership of the board with a high degree of personal integrity
• Highly developed interpersonal and influencing skills, with the ability to lead in a creative environment which enables people to thrive and collaborate
• Problem solving skills and the ability to identify issues and areas of risk, leading stakeholders to effective resolutions and decisions
• The ability to thrive and innovate in a complex and politically charged environment of change and uncertainty
• Confidence in constructively challenging information and explanations provided by others and negotiating when needed
• Understanding of your own strengths and the strengths of others, and where these are best deployed to solve challenges
• Demonstrates respect and adopts a compassionate and inclusive leadership style with a demonstrable commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion (in respect of boards, patients and staff).
• Creates and lives by the values of openness and transparency
• Works to espouse the values set out in the NHS People Plan, Nolan Principles and soon to be published Leadership Way.
• Demonstrate a strong commitment to public sector and NHS values

Experience

Essential

• Extensive experience of providing compassionate and inclusive leadership in a role such as a Chair or Non-executive Director, at board or equivalent level in a complex public sector organisation such as; an NHS provider, Local Authority or CCG or have suitable leadership experience independent of the system
• Comprehensive experience of chairing complex professional meetings at a very senior level in a collaborative, efficient and effective manner
• Considerable experience of navigating politically sensitive situations and environments
• Significant experience of working with different sectors, groups, networks and building teams to deliver major transformation of public services
• Broad experience of working across agency and professional boundaries, collaboratively with the board and other stakeholders to oversee services and consult on transformation initiatives
• Experience of providing leadership and governance of a board, to identify and address issues, including underperformance and balance the competing objectives of quality, operational performance, and finance
• Track record of promoting Equality Diversity and Inclusion in leadership roles at board level and across systems

Qualifications

Essential

• The level of qualification expected will be in line with the seniority of the role and the level of experience required

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).

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Dorset

Address

Vespasian House

Barrack Road

Dorchester

Dorset

DT1 1TG

Employer's website

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