[Hiring] Non Executive Director @Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Role Description

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]

Qualifications

• Experience in strategic leadership within healthcare.
• Ability to demonstrate alignment with NHS Leadership Competency Framework for Board.

Requirements

• 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.
• 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.

Benefits

• Opportunity to contribute to high quality, compassionate and sustainable care.
• Engagement in a supportive Board team.

Company Description

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.

Our shared strategy, Working Together, Improving Lives 2024-2029, sets out a simple but powerful ambition: healthier lives, empowered citizens, thriving communities.

Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.

Our Mission

Outstanding care for people in ways which matter to them.

Our Vision

Dorset County Hospital, working with our health and social care partners, will be at the heart of improving the well-being of our communities.

Our Values

• Integrity
• Respect
• Teamwork
• Excellence