About this role
Job summary
We are looking to welcome a new Non-Executive Director who brings experience, curiosity and sound judgement, motivated by public service and making a genuine difference. We are seeking a strategically minded and values-led clinician to join our Board, bringing the independence, judgement and expertise to provide constructive challenge, strengthen clinical oversight and support the Trust in making complex decisions that deliver quality, sustainability and value for money.
As a Non-Executive Director, you will play a vital role in helping the Trust deliver high quality, compassionate and sustainable care. As a future NHS leader, the successful candidate will be able to demonstrate that they meet the NHS Leadership Competency Framework for Board.
Further information about the role and the Trust is included in the Candidate Briefing Pack.
Applications should be made via CV and a covering letter setting out what you can bring to the role and the organisation.
CV and cover letter to be sent to: [email protected]
Main duties of the job
As a NED, you will play a vital role in helping the Trust deliver high quality, compassionate and sustainable care.
As part of the federation between Dorset County Hospital and Dorset HealthCare we operate a Board in Common, with a combination of Trust specific and Joint NED roles; although this role is Trust specific for Dorset County Hospital Trust.
You will:
help shape strategy and oversee delivery
- uphold values, culture and integrity
- bring independent judgement, insight and constructive challenge
- support and hold the executives to account
- keep the needs of patients, service users and communities at the heart of decisions.
You won't be expected to know everything - but you will be expected to listen, ask good questions and work as part of a supportive Board team.
We expect our NEDs to:
- act with compassion, respect and integrity
- challenge constructively and supportively
- promote inclusion and belonging
- focus relentlessly on quality, safety and experience
- work together in the best interests of Dorset's communities
About us
Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the main provider of acute hospital care to the largely rural communities of North and West Dorset, Weymouth and Portland. We are a high performing Trust, providing services in GP surgeries, schools, residential homes, people's own homes, Dorset County Hospital and five community hospitals, by a dedicated workforce of over 3,000 employees.
At Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, our people really are at the heart of everything we do, and we are proud of our place in the community we serve. Guided by our values of Respect, Integrity, Teamwork and Excellence, we are committed to creating an environment where colleagues feel valued, supported and empowered to deliver outstanding care every day. Dorset County Hospital is federated with Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust, and we have a combination of joint and single Trust Executives and NEDs, operating as a Board and Committees in Common. This role is a single Trust role for Dorset County Hospital.
Across Dorset, people want care that is accessible, compassionate, well-coordinated and shaped around their lives. That shared ambition is driving Dorset County Hospital and Dorset HealthCare to work together to build a more integrated, future focused health and care system for Dorset. Each Trust remains independent, with its own Board, responsibilities and accountability. What unites us is a shared belief that working together allows us to do more for patients, service users and communities than working alone. Our shared strategy, Working Together, Improving Lives 2024-2029, sets out a simple but powerful ambition: healthier lives, empowered citizens, thriving communities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As a NED of the Board, the post holder will be one of up to eight NEDs working with the Chair and Executive Directors as members of the Board of Directors. You will share responsibility with fellow Board Directors for the strategic leadership, direction, governance and overall success of the organisation in delivering healthcare.
The post holder will
- Contribute to the development of strategies, business cases and governance processes that will drive delivery of effective management to achieve excellence in quality and financial outcomes and support the provision of a positive patient experience.
- Ensure that the Board sets challenging goals and objectives for service delivery and achievement of targets and monitor progress towards those goals and objectives.
- Provide insight to and relevant experience of organisational development and culture change to aid Board discussions and decisions concerning organisational change programmes.
- Scrutinise and challenge proposals to support the provision of modernised, patient-focussed services across our system.
- Be a member of or chair Board committees as requested by the Chair.
- Uphold the Nolan Principles of Public Life and promote these principles through the organisation.
- Act with compassion, respect and integrity
- Challenge constructively and supportively
- Promote inclusion and belonging
- Focus relentlessly on quality, safety and experience
- Work together in the best interests of Dorset's communities.
- Be held to account by the Council of Governors, individually and collectively, for the performance of the Board.
- Promote the success of the organisation so as to maximise the benefits for the members as a whole and the public.
- Avoid conflicts of interests.
Person Specification
Education qualifications and training
Essential
- Evidence of extensive, senior-level (ideally Board-level) experience in a large, complex organisation(s)
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
Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Dorset County Hospital
Dorchester
DT12JY
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.dchft.nhs.uk/working-for-us/ (Opens in a new tab)