Job summary
- Main area
- Non-Executive
- Grade
- Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM
- Contract
- Fixed term: 3 years (Initially three years (one term))
- Hours
- Part time - Commitment to 4 days per month
- Job ref
- 338-7381575-25
- Employer
- Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trust HQ
- Town
- Willerby Hill, Willerby
- Salary
- £13,650 per annum plus £2205 additional supplementary payment
- Closing
- 31/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Non-Executive Director - Audit Chair
Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019
Job overview
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a highly experienced and values-driven individual to join our Board as a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Audit Committee. This is a pivotal leadership role offering the opportunity to influence the strategic direction and governance of a high-performing, innovative NHS organisation.
You will bring independent oversight, financial expertise, and strategic insight to support our mission of delivering outstanding, safe, and sustainable care across Hull, East Riding, North Yorkshire and beyond.
Please note that this advertised vacancy does not meet the UKVI eligibility requirements for a Skilled Worker Visa and therefore HTFT would not be able to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.
Main duties of the job
- Chair the Audit Committee and contribute to other Board sub-committees
- Will operate as the Chair for the Audit Committee
- Provide independent scrutiny of financial reporting, risk management, and internal controls.
- Support the development and delivery of the Trust’s strategic objectives.
- Promote the Trust’s values and uphold the highest standards of conduct in line with the Nolan Principles.
- Monitor financial performance and ensure value for money.
- Engage with the Council of Governors and contribute to Board and Chair appraisals.
- Champion inclusive leadership and bring lived experience or community insight to Board discussions.
- Act as an ambassador for the Trust in stakeholder engagement.
Working for our organisation
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust is an award-winning provider of health and social care services in Hull, the East Riding and North Yorkshire. Offering multispecialty services and care, it improves the physical and mental health and wellbeing of patients and service users.
It provides a broad range of community and therapy services, primary care, community, and inpatient mental health services, learning disability services, healthy lifestyle support and addictions services. This includes specialist services for children, incorporating physiotherapy, speech and language therapy and support for children and their families who are experiencing emotional or mental health difficulties.
It has specialist services, such as forensic support and offender health, which support patients from the wider Yorkshire and Humber area and further afield. Inspire, the Child and Adolescent Mental Health in-patient unit serves the young people of Hull, East Yorkshire, North and North-East Lincolnshire.
It holds a total of three GP practice contracts, registered to provide care with the Care Quality Commission (CQC). These are a mixture of General Medical Services (GMS) and Personal Medical Services (PMS) contracts in Cottingham, Market Weighton and Bridlington.
The Trust employs more than 3,600 staff working across numerous locations covering Hull, the East Riding of Yorkshire, Whitby, Scarborough, and Ryedale.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As a Non-Executive Director, you will be expected to contribute to and play your part in:
Strategy and accountability
- Assist in the setting of the Trust’s strategic aims, ensuring that the necessary financial and human resources are in place.
- Ensure that the Trust manages risk effectively and that all risks taken can be managed.
- Ensure that services are run for the people using them, with particular attention to alignment to the Trust’s Vision, Mission, Strategy and Values, ensuring alignment with the ICP’s integrated care strategy.
- Ensure decision-making complies with the triple aim duty of better health and wellbeing for everyone, better quality of health services for all individuals and sustainable use of NHS resources.
- Give particular attention to the trust’s role in reducing health inequalities in access, experience, and outcomes.
- Promote safety and quality in all aspects of services.
- Have an on-going dialogue with the Council of Governors on progress in delivery of the Trust’s strategic objectives and high level financial and operational performance.
Clinical governance strategy
- Promote the long-term sustainability of the trust as part of the ICS and wider healthcare system in England.
- Analyse and contribute positively to the strategic development of long-term healthcare plans.
- Build and maintain close relations between the Foundation Trust’s constituencies and stakeholder groups to promote the effective operation of the Trust’s activities.
- Act as an ambassador for the Trust in engagement with stakeholders.
Compliance
- Ensure the Foundation Trust meets its commitment to patients and targets for treatment.
- Ensure the Trust establishes and maintains the highest standards of clinical standards.
Specific responsibilities of Non-Executive Directors
- Prepare for, attend, and contribute to the six formal Board of Directors’ meetings, 6 Strategic Board Development meetings, and quarterly Council of Governors’ meetings.
- Chair and attend Board sub-committees as agreed with the Chair.
- To the extent that the required time commitment allows, participate in those activities where it has been agreed that Non-Executive Director’s involvement would bring an external and independent perspective.
- Ensure effective stewardship through planning, strategy, control and value for money.
- Work in conjunction with the Council of Governors to promote public sector values and the interests of Foundation Trust members through good corporate governance.
- Attend the Annual Members’ Meeting and other governor meetings as agreed with the Chair.
- Participate in visits to services and occasional external stakeholder meetings.
- Participate in an annual review and appraisal of own performance with the Chair and Chair of governor-led Appointments, Terms and Conditions Committee and contribute to the annual appraisal of the Chair and periodic reviews of the performance of the Board.
- Support the Chair, Chief Executive and Executive Directors in the governance and stewardship of the Trust.
- When asked to do so by the Chair, act as critical friend in connection with issues relevant to their own skills, expertise, and experience.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Board-level experience in organisations of significant complexity, whether in the private, public, or voluntary sector
- Applicants must have demonstrable, recent, and relevant financial experience
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- You will need to have a genuine commitment to patients and the promotion of excellent health care services as part of a wider interest in Mental Health Services.
- Ideally resident in or have strong connections with the service areas within Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust.
- A personal interest and commitment in equality, diversity, and inclusion.
- A clear understanding of the needs of all sectors of the community.
- Able to demonstrate a range of professional expertise as well as community understanding and experience, and insights into lived experiences such as being a patient or carer, engaging with diverse ethnic, cultural, social, and economic and cultural groups and communities, experience of women and gender issues, experiences and challenges of younger people, and those with lived experience of mental health issues and/or living with physical disability.
- Self-knowledge and appetite to drive your own learning and development, and the ability to engage with, and add value to the work of Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust’s Board and its committees.
- Commitment to our Trust values and ability to role model them always.
- Demonstrate a genuine commitment to patients and the promotion of excellent health care services.
Personal
Essential criteria
- Strong leadership, strategic thinking, and interpersonal skills.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Karen Phillips
- Job title
- Director of Workforce & OD
- Email address
- [email protected]
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