Non-Executive Director

Job summary

We are seeking a Non-Executive Director with a focus on Business Development, Transformation and/or Culture change to enhance our experienced existing Board and play a key role in our exciting journey to deliver our strategy and our mission to 'Make a difference every day to the health and wellbeing of our communities'.

The post holder would be required to attend board and sub-group meetings during the working day, with full participation in our 10 Board meetings each year. It is essential that you are confident in making a commitment of 2.5 days per month which will include participation in sub-committees of the Board. These appointments are for a term of 3 years.

To apply for this role:

Please submit a CV and a supporting statement that addresses the criteria set out in the person specification, using examples to demonstrate how you meet the essential requirements to:

Liza Place, Head of Recruitment and Transaction Services on liza.place1@nhs.net.

Please provide your home, work, mobile and email contact details and advise us of any dates when you are not available or where you may have difficulty with the indicative timetable. Please provide the names, positions, organisations and contact details for two referees, one of whom should be your current or most recent employer. If you do not wish us to approach your referees without your prior permission, please state this clearly.

Closing Date: 5th March 2025

Interview Date: tbc

Main duties of the job

The Board is collectively responsible for ensuring the success of Nottingham CityCare Partnership and to play a key independent role by seeking assurance on the delivery of the organisation's strategy, performance and governance whilst ensuring accountability to our commissioners and the communities we serve.

All Directors, Executive and Non-Executive, have responsibility to constructively challenge the decisions of the Board and support the development of priorities, risk mitigation, standards, and strategy. The Non-Executive Director holds the organisation to account ensuring good governance and value for public money.

Roles & Responsibilities

The role and responsibilities of our Non-executive Directors include the following:

• Commit to working to, and encouraging within the organisation, the highest standards of probity, integrity and governance and contribute to ensuring that the organisations internal governance arrangements conform with best practice and statutory requirements.
• Provide independent judgment and advice on issues of strategy, vision, performance, resources and standards of conduct and constructively challenge influence and help the Executive Board develop proposals on such strategies.
• 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.
• Contribute to the determination of appropriate levels of remuneration for Executive Directors.
• Chair and/or participate in sub-committees of the board, established to exercise delegated responsibilities.
• Bring independent judgment and experience and expertise from outside the organisation and apply this to the benefit of the organisation, its stakeholders, and its wider community.
• Assist fellow Directors in setting the organisations strategic aims, ensuring that the necessary financial and human resources are in place for the organisation to meet its objectives, and that performance is effectively monitored and reviewed.
• Assist fellow Directors in providing entrepreneurial leadership to the organisation within a framework of prudent and effective controls, which enable risk to be assessed and managed and mitigated.
• Engage positively and collaboratively in Board discussion of agenda items and act as an ambassador for the organisation in engagement with stakeholders including the local community.
• Scrutinise the progress of transformation initiatives, ensuring smooth transitions and effective workforce adaptation.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate risks related to people, operational, culture, digital, and financial aspects of the organisation.

Eligibility

• To be eligible for appointment, candidates should live or work in the area serviced by the organisation i.e., Nottingham City or surrounding areas.

Criteria for Disqualification

This post is subject to the fit and proper person requirements which came into force for all NHS providers from 27th November 2014. These regulations play a major part in ensuring the accountability of directors (including non-executive directors) and other board level appointments. These regulations include a requirement that you are:

• Of good character
• Have the necessary qualifications, competence, skills, and experience; and
• Are able by reason of your health, after reasonable adjustments are made, to properly perform tasks which are intrinsic to the office or position.

The following paragraphs identify the circumstances where an individual would not be eligible for appointment as a member of the Board of Directors:

• A person who has been adjudged bankrupt or whose estate has been sequestrated and (in either case) has not been discharged.
• A person who has made a composition or arrangement with, or granted a trust deed for, his creditors and has not been discharged in respect of it.
• A person who within the preceding five years has been convicted in the British Islands of any offence if a sentence of imprisonment (whether suspended or not) for a period of not less than three months (without the option of a fine) was imposed.
• A member of the Council of Governors or a Governor or Director of an NHS body (although Governors may apply but would need to resign if appointed).
• The spouse, partner, parent or child of a member of the Board of Directors.
• A member of a Local Authority's Scrutiny committee covering health matters.
• A person who is the subject of a disqualification order made under the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986.
• A person whose tenure as a chairman or as a member or Director of an NHS body has been terminated on the grounds that their appointment is not in the interests of the health service, for non-attendance at meetings, or for non-disclosure of a pecuniary interest.
• A person within the preceding two years dismissed, otherwise than by reason of redundancy, from any paid employment with an NHS body.
• In the case of a Non-executive Director, they have refused without reasonable cause to fulfil any training requirement established by the Board of Directors.
• A person who has refused to sign and deliver to the Secretary a statement in the form required by the Board of Directors confirming acceptance of the code of conduct for Directors.

Remuneration & Time Commitment

• The Non-executive Director posts attract a remuneration of £8,368 per annum. The ability to attend board and sub-group meetings during the working day, with full participation in our 10 Board meetings each year, it is essential that you are confident in making a commitment of 2.5 days per month, which will include participation in sub-committees of the Board.
• As with all NED posts, the time commitment will require some flexibility with some months requiring greater input and others less, depending on service needs. Meetings take place during the working day.
• You will be eligible to claim reasonable allowances for travel and subsistence costs necessarily incurred.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Background in business development, transformation and cultural change.
• Experience in successfully developing and leading large teams, with Change Management, Business Development and/or transformation experience.
• The temperament, ability, and experience to work at board level.
• Experience of working with equality, diversity and inclusion matters.
• Experience of embedding the equality, diversity, and inclusion agenda within an organisational strategy.
• Champion an inclusive, innovative, and high-performance culture that supports workforce development, equality, diversity and inclusion and well-being.
• A deeply rooted commitment to the delivery of safe, high quality, compassionate and joined up care, and to its continuous improvement.
• Knowledge of NHS or Local Authority commissioning.
• High level of understanding of, and interest in, healthcare issues.
• Ability to understand and contribute to the direction of a large and complex organisation.
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to understand complex strategic issues, analyse and resolve difficult problems.
• Sound, independent judgement and diplomacy.
• Politically astute, with the ability to grasp relevant issues and understand relationships between interested parties.
• Sound understanding of corporate governance.
• Ability to understand and influence business decisions.
• Sufficient time and commitment to fulfil the role.
• Ability to understand, and a genuine interest in, the views of the organisations patients, staff, public, and the communities it serves.
• Contribute to the development and execution of CityCare's strategic direction, ensuring alignment with national healthcare priorities.
• Ability to support the adoption of new technologies to improve patient care, operational efficiency, and data-driven decision-making.
• Support leadership in building a digitally skilled, adaptable, and engaged workforce.
• Sound, independent judgement and diplomacy - scrutinise budgets, investments, and financial risks, ensuring sustainable resource allocation and value for money.
• Clear understanding, and acceptance, of the legal duties, liabilities, and responsibilities of Non-Executive Directors.

Desirable

• A background in Digital and IT.
• A demonstrable understanding of the strategic challenges facing the health economy.
• A demonstrable track record in effective partnership working experience or involvement in voluntary sector or community development projects.
• Patient engagement and patient focus.

Qualifications

Essential

• Clear understanding, and acceptance, of the legal duties, liabilities, and responsibilities of Non-Executive Directors.

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

Nottingham CityCare Partnership CIC
Address

Aspect House, Aspect Business Park

26 Bennerley Road

Bulwell

Nottinghamshire

NG6 8WR

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