About this role
Job summary
The Non-Executive Chair provides independent leadership to the BrisDoc Healthcare Services Ltd Board and is responsible for its overall effectiveness.
The Chair will ensure the Board provides effective strategic leadership, scrutiny and constructive challenge; maintains appropriate oversight of quality, safety, performance, finance, workforce and risk; and operates in a way that reflects BrisDoc's Values, social purpose and employee-owned ethos.
The Chair will also play an important role in shaping the culture of the Board, ensuring that BrisDoc's Values are reflected in how the Board leads, makes decisions, challenges and holds itself and the organisation to account.
The Chair will establish a strong supportive and appropriately challenging relationship with the Chief Executive, promote effective relationships across the Board and act as a credible strategic ambassador for BrisDoc.
We welcome candidates from a broad range of professional and sector backgrounds who can demonstrate the leadership, judgement and governance experience required for the role.
Main duties of the job
The Non-Executive Chair provides independent leadership to the BrisDoc Healthcare Services Ltd Board and is responsible for its overall effectiveness.
The Chair will ensure the Board provides effective strategic leadership, scrutiny and constructive challenge; maintains appropriate oversight of quality, safety, performance, finance, workforce and risk; and operates in a way that reflects BrisDoc's Values, social purpose and employee-owned ethos.
The Chair will also play an important role in shaping the culture of the Board, ensuring that BrisDoc's Values are reflected in how the Board leads, makes decisions, challenges and holds itself and the organisation to account.
The Chair will establish a strong supportive and appropriately challenging relationship with the Chief Executive, promote effective relationships across the Board and act as a credible strategic ambassador for BrisDoc.
We welcome candidates from a broad range of professional and sector backgrounds who can demonstrate the leadership, judgement and governance experience required for the role.
About us
BrisDoc Healthcare Services Ltd is an employee-owned social enterprise providing NHS primary, urgent and community healthcare services across Bristol and the wider South West.
We employ around 600 co-owners across a diverse clinical, operational, professional and support workforce. BrisDoc combines the responsibilities of an NHS healthcare provider with a strong commitment to co-ownership, social purpose and long-term sustainability.
BrisDoc operates a Combined Board arrangement through which much of the business of the BrisDoc Healthcare Services Ltd Board and BrisDoc Trustee Ltd Board is considered together, while each retains its distinct legal and governance responsibilities.
Job description Job responsibilities 1. Board Leadership and Governance
The Chair will:
lead an effective, inclusive and appropriately challenging Board; ensure Directors contribute fully and constructively and share collective responsibility for Board decisions; maintain clear boundaries between Board oversight and Executive management; ensure Board agendas, information and assurance support effective scrutiny and decision-making; promote high standards of governance, integrity, openness and accountability; and ensure the Board regularly reviews its effectiveness, composition, skills, experience, diversity and ways of working; ensure appropriate Board succession planning and ongoing development. 2. Strategy, Performance and Assurance The Chair will:
ensure the Board sets and maintains a clear strategic direction and oversees delivery against it; maintain appropriate Board oversight of quality, patient safety, organisational performance, finance, workforce, risk and long-term sustainability; ensure the Board balances risk and opportunity appropriately and supports innovation and improvement where these further BrisDocs strategy and purpose; ensure equality, inclusion, health inequalities and community needs are considered in Board decision-making and strategic oversight; ensure the Board has effective governance and assurance arrangements. 3. Chief Executive and Executive Team The Chair will:
build a strong, open and appropriately challenging relationship with the Chief Executive; provide support, counsel and constructive challenge while maintaining independence; lead the Chief Executives objective-setting, appraisal and performance review; ensure the Board holds the Chief Executive and Executive team to account for delivery, culture, and leadership conduct; ensure matters relating to the Chief Executive that require Board consideration or action are brought to the Board; and support effective succession planning for the Chief Executive and wider Executive leadership. 4. Values, Culture and Employee Ownership The Chair will:
visibly champion BrisDocs Values and employee-owned ethos; ensure organisational culture and leadership behaviours receive appropriate Board attention; create a Board environment in which difficult issues and behaviours can be challenged openly, irrespective of role or seniority; ensure that how results are achieved is considered alongside what is achieved; ensure the Board remains connected to the experiences and perspectives of patients, service users, communities and co-owners; ensure patient, service user, community and co-owner insights inform strategy, culture and Board oversight; and promote effective relationships between the BrisDoc Board, BrisDoc Trustee Ltd, Employee Directors and Co-owners Council. 5. External Leadership and Statutory Responsibilities The Chair will:
act as a credible strategic ambassador for BrisDoc; build constructive relationships with system leaders, regulators, other Chairs, elected members and key partners; discharge the legal duties of a company director and act in accordance with BrisDocs governing documents; exercise independent judgement and appropriately manage conflicts of interest; and meet applicable statutory, regulatory and Fit and Proper Persons requirements.
Person Specification
Experience Essential
Values, culture and leadership Purpose, patients and co-ownership Chair and Board experience Strategic judgement and oversight Chief Executive relationship Communication and external credibility Governance Capacity and regulatory requirements
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 BrisDoc Healthcare Services
Address Unit 21 Osprey Court
BrisDoc, Unit 21, Osprey Court
Bristol
BS140BB
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://brisdoc.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)