Detailed job description and main 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 BrisDoc’s 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 Executive’s 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 BrisDoc’s 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 BrisDoc’s governing documents;
• exercise independent judgement and appropriately manage conflicts of interest; and
• meet applicable statutory, regulatory and Fit and Proper Persons requirements.