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Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of Yorkshire’s leading acute trusts, serving a population of more than 440,000 across South Yorkshire, North Nottinghamshire and the surrounding areas.

Hosting three main hospital sites and a number of additional services, the Trust is one of only five Teaching Hospitals in Yorkshire and trains 25% of all medical students in the region, in addition to 30% of all other healthcare professional students.

A modern and forward-facing Trust employing over 7,000 members of staff, the hospital provides a full range of local hospital services across Doncaster Royal Infirmary in Doncaster, Bassetlaw Hospital in Worksop, Montagu Hospital in Mexborough.

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Telephone: 01302 642584

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Telephone: 01302 642585

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Ref: 272-4814359 Vacancy ID: 4814359

Non-Executive Director

Closed for applications on: 19-Dec-2022 00:01

Vacancy status: Closed

Closed for applications on: 19-Dec-2022 00:01

Location

Site: Trust Wide
Town: Doncaster/ Worksop
Postcode: DN2 5LT
Major / Minor Region: South Yorkshire

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Fixed term: 3 years
Hours: Flexible working - The time commitment for this role is between four & five days a month.

Salary

Salary: £13,390 Pro Rata Per Annum
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (Non-Executive Director)

Specialty

Main area: Chief Executive

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will use your skills and experience to:

Commit to working to, and encouraging within the Trust, the highest standards of probity, integrity and governance and contribute to ensuring that the Trust’s internal governance arrangements conform with best practice and statutory requirements.
Working with the Trust’s Council of Governors.
Provide independent judgement and advice on issues of strategy, vision, performance, resources and standards of conduct.
Constructively challenge, influence and help the executive team to develop proposals on such strategies to enable the organisation to fulfil its leadership responsibilities to patients and the healthcare of the local community.
Ensure that patients are treated with dignity and respect at all times, and that the patient is central to Trust decision making.
Ensure that the Board sets challenging objectives for improving its performance across the range of its functions.
In accordance with agreed Board procedures, 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 and other statutory duties.
Ensure that financial information is accurate and that financial controls and risk management systems are robust and defensible and that the Board is kept fully informed through timely and relevant information.
Accept accountability for the delivery of the organisation’s objectives and ensure that the Board acts in the best interests of patients and its local community.
Contribute to the determination of appropriate levels of remuneration for executive directors.
Participate in committees (including the Nominations and Remuneration committee and Charitable Funds Committee) established by the Board of Directors to exercise delegated responsibility.
As a member of board committees, appoint, remove, support, encourage and where appropriate “buddy” senior executives.
Bring independent judgement and experience from outside the Trust and apply this to the benefit of the Trust, its stakeholders and its wider community.
Assist fellow directors in setting the Trust’s values and standards and ensure that its obligations to its stakeholders and the wider community are understood and fairly balanced at all times.
Ensure that the organisation values diversity in its workforce and demonstrates equality of opportunity in its treatment of staff and patients and in all aspects of its business.
Engage positively and collaboratively in Board discussion of agenda items and act as an ambassador for the Trust in engagement with stakeholders including patients and the local community.
Support the continued development and promotion of a positive and constructive relationship with the Council of Governors.

You are responsible (acting in the appropriate Committees) for:

determining appropriate levels of remuneration of Executive Directors;
participating in the appraisal of Executive Directors, their fellow Non-Executive Directors & the Trust Chair; appointing the Chief Executive (with the approval of the Council of Governors) & other Executive Directors along with the Chief Executive; & where necessary removing Executive Directors & succession planning for key executive posts.

Please refer to the Non Executive Director Recruitment Pack for further information

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Please note that all correspondence will be sent you to via email. If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system. In submitting an application form, you authorise our Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed.
We reserve the right to close down this advert early should there be a high number of applicants.
The Trust is committed to its obligations in accordance with the Equality Act 2010, and we positively encourage applications from all sections of the community. All employment with the Trust is subject to a number of NHS Employment Checks being met to a satisfactory standard including verification of identity, eligibility to work in the United Kingdom, references and qualifications in addition to professional registration, a disclosure and barring records check and occupational health check if these are deemed to be a requirement for the position to be undertaken In line with other NHS organisations in the Yorkshire and Humber Region, the Trust is now passing the charge for undertaking a DBS check on to candidates in the event that they are successfully appointed into the post for which they have applied. Please note that this check will be charged for in two instalments when you commence employment with Doncaster & Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. By applying for this vacancy you are agreeing to this undertaking in the event you are successfully appointed.
As a Trust we value HONESTY from our staff and therefore we encourage applicants to tell us about convictions, cautions, reprimands, warnings, regardless of when they took place, in the application and interview process. Having a criminal record will not necessarily bar you from working with us; this will depend on the nature of the position and the circumstances of your offences which will be discussed in a meeting between yourself, the Recruitment Team and your potential line manager. Please read the Job Description and Person Specification carefully to ensure that you meet the skills and experience required for the post. The 'Supporting Information' area on the application form is available if you wish to expand on your skills and experience. We reserve the right to withdraw this vacancy at any time if there is a high level of applications therefore, we would recommend that you submit your application as early as possible.

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Person specification

Board level Competencies

Essential criteria

Previous experience of Non-Executive or at Board level.
Holding to account - the ability to accept accountability for board performance, and probe and challenge constructively, and the ability to hold the Chief Executive and executives to account.

Interpersonal Skills

Essential criteria

Patient and community focus - a strong commitment to the provision of high quality and safe care for patients, engaging with carers and the community, and to tackling health inequalities in disadvantaged groups.