Role Profile – Associate Non Executive Director Development

This role profile describes the skills, experience and attributes that are required to be considered for our Associate NED Development programme at WCHC.

Values

The NHS is founded on principles and values that bind together the diverse communities and people it serves – patients and public – and the staff who work for it.

You must demonstrate a clear commitment to the Trust’s values and the NHS values and principles outlined in the NHS Constitution and Principles of Public Life by upholding the highest standards of conduct and candour by displaying selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty and leadership.

Skills, Experience and Attributes

You are already a senior leader, ideally at sub-board level, and aspire to reach the board level within the next two years. You will need to be able to demonstrate that you can use your senior level experience to:

• Bring independence, external perspectives, skills, and challenge to strategy development.
• Shape and support an inclusive, compassionate, person-centred culture for the trust, encouraging diversity, change and innovation using a collaborative and engaging leadership style.
• Use personal knowledge and experience to support Trust NEDs to fulfil their statutory duties.
• Achieve the best sustainable outcomes for patients and service users by encouraging continuous improvement, clinical excellence, and value for money.
• Demonstrate an understanding of balancing organisational priorities with wider collaboration.
• Ability to form alliances and work diplomatically across complex interfaces.
• Utilise personal lived experience to add valuable insight to discussions and decisions.
• Utilise existing leadership skills to adopt and effectively demonstrate NHS Leadership Competencies.

Lived Experience

Personally, you will bring a range of professional expertise as well as community understanding and experience. We are interested in your life experience and personal motivation that will add valuable personal insights. Those lived experiences could be:

• a patient or carer of a service user
• working with or supporting those in minority or underrepresented groups
• direct lived experience in one or more minority or under-represented groups
• engaging with diverse ethnic, cultural, social and economic groups and communities
• experience of engaging with gender issues
• experience of engaging with challenges of younger people’s issues
• experience of engaging with mental health issues and or living with physical disability
• experience of the Armed Forces and/or being from the Armed Forces Community
• experience as a working carer or supporting working carers.

Additional Criteria

You will also have:

• the self-knowledge and appetite to drive your own learning and development, and the ability to engage with and add value to the work of WCHC
• senior experience from private, public or voluntary sector with a good understanding of the legal duties, liabilities and responsibilities of being a non-executive director in todays NHS
• a passion and keen interest in contributing as a non-executive director at board level in a complex NHS organisation.

Time Commitment

To mirror our non-executive roles, the time commitment for our Associate Non-Executive Development role will include participation in Board activities including both public and private meetings, informal board, board development and Board level committee meetings, as well as preparation time. You will also be expected to engage in the individualised development and support activities that will be provided.   

A minimum of three days per month would be expected to undertake the role successfully, with Wednesdays being an identified corporate day for committee and board meetings.

Eligibility

The Associate NED Development Programme has been developed to support people from groups who are currently under-represented on NHS boards into non-executive roles. It is focused on supporting people with protected characteristics and senior level experience, preferably but not necessarily at sub-board level, into board level roles in the NHS.

As part of the Fit and Proper Persons checks required for all NHS board level posts you will be asked to address questions relating to topics including misconduct or mismanagement, bankruptcy, and convictions, and we will make a number of specific background checks.

Expenses

As this is a development opportunity there will be no renumeration for this programme. However, WCHC will reimburse individuals with appropriate expenses in accordance with NHS terms and conditions.

The programme is for a period of maximum 24 month.

How to apply

To apply for the WCHC Associate NED Development Role, please use the following link to be directed to our recruitment portal – TRAC.

Please apply here

Closing Date and Interviews

The closing date for receipt of applications is: 11:59pm Monday 6 May 2024

Recruitment activity for shortlisted candidates will include a focus group and a formal panel interview. The activity will take place on Thursday 23 May 2024.

Contact Us

We strongly recommend you request an informal and confidential discussion with our Trust Chair and Lead Governor as available. These can be arranged by contacting Denise Powell, Executive Assistant on 0151 651 3939 or via email at [email protected]

Other Information

Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust – Trust website

The Seven Principle of Public Life

Monitoring Information Form (to be provided via TRAC or stand alone depending on above)

For further details on the development programme in place to support a successful candidate, please click here to read the Associate NED Development Proposal.

To find out more about Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at the Trust click here.