Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a Non-Executive Director, you will use your skills and personal experience as a member of their community to:

Formulate plans and strategy
o Bring independent judgement, external perspectives and advice on issues of strategy, vision, performance, resources and standards of conduct.
o Constructively challenge, influence and help the executive board develop proposals on strategies to enable the ROH to fulfil our leadership responsibilities to patients, for the healthcare of the local community.
o Assist fellow directors in setting the ROH’s values and standards and ensure that our obligations to its stakeholders and the wider community are understood and fairly balanced at all times.
o You will work across professional boundaries, providing challenge and fresh, multi-disciplinary perspectives internally, playing a critical outward-facing role in building the  brand as a leader in musculoskeletal and orthopaedics within the wider system.

Shape culture and capability
o Ensure that our patients and service users are treated with dignity and respect at all times, and that the patient is central to Trust decision-making.
o Actively support and promote a healthy culture for the ROH which is reflected in their own behaviour as Non-executives.
o Ensure that the organisation values diversity in our workforce and demonstrates equality of opportunity in our treatment of staff and patients, and in all aspects of our business.
o Provide visible leadership in developing a healthy culture so that staff believe Non-executive Directors provide a safe point of access to the board for raising concerns. o Ensure the directors of the board are ‘fit and proper’ for the role and champion an open, honest, and transparent culture within the ROH.

Develop process, structures and utilise intelligence
o Commit to working to, and encouraging within, the ROH, the highest standards of probity, integrity and governance and contribute to ensuring that our internal governance arrangements conform with best practice and statutory requirements.
o 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.
o Ensure that financial information is accurate, that financial controls and risk management systems are robust and defensible, and that the Board is kept fully informed through timely and relevant information.
o Satisfy themselves as non-executives of the integrity of reporting mechanisms and financial and quality intelligence, including getting out and about, observing and talking to patients and staff.
o Provide analysis and constructive challenge to information on organisational and operational performance.

Support engagement
o Ensure that the board acts in the best interests of patients and the public.
o Be available to staff if there are unresolved concerns.
o Show commitment to working with key partners, including the continued development and promotion of a positive and constructive relationship with the Council of Governors.
o Act as an ambassador for the Trust in engagement with stakeholders including patients and the local community, and wider ICS partners and in dealing with the media when appropriate.

Ensure accountability
o Ensure that the Board sets challenging objectives for improving our performance across the range of its functions.
o Ensure there is strong focus on creating a culture of efficiency and productivity such that the use of public money to fund NHS activities can be soundly justified.
o Provide purposeful, constructive scrutiny and challenge.
o Chair or take part as a member of key committees that support accountability.
o Hold the executive to account for the delivery of strategy.
o Contribute to the determination of appropriate levels of remuneration for executive directors.
o Be accountable individually and collectively for the effectiveness of the board.

If you wish to apply, please follow the guidance within the Non-Executive Direction (NED) Candidate Recruitment Pack linked. 

We trust the pack will include everything you need to understand the role and submit you application but if you wish,  and would like any additional information or just a general chat, please don't hesitate to contact Simon Grainger-Lloyd, Executive Director of Governance  at the Trust. You can contact him via email at [email protected] or by phone on 0121 685 4353.

Please note: Applications MUST NOT be made online via the NHS Jobs TRAC recruitment portal.