The Norfolk and Waveney University Hospitals Group is recruiting a Group Chair to lead its Group Board alongside the Group CEO and joint executive and non-executive directors. The work centres on aligning the group's strategy, transforming services including urgent care and cancer, and tackling shared financial pressures. The post suits a board-level leader with executive or non-executive experience in complex public-sector organisations and a record of leading change. Applications must go through Alumni Global, not Trac or NHS Jobs.
What the job involves
- Lead the Group Board with the Group CEO and joint executive and non-executive directors
- Align strategic ambitions across the group with streamlined decision-making and locally focused delivery of care
- Transform health services around patient and community needs, with a focus on preventative care for long-term conditions
- Deliver a consistent best-practice model of urgent and emergency care with a focus on frailty
- Implement safe and sustainable care models and improve access and outcomes for cancer patients
- Improve service resilience, staff development and training
- Build research, training and innovation capacity within a University Hospital system
- Realise service transformation benefits through estates and digital
- Tackle underlying financial challenges and use the group's purchasing and investment power
What’s required
Experience
- Shaping and delivering organisational vision and strategy
- Leading complex Board-level change, including transformation, technology and innovation
- Board membership at executive or non-executive level in complex organisations
- Working within or closely with public-sector organisations
- Sustained impact on service improvement, innovation and public-sector value
- Building and leading inclusive teams and collaborative cultures
Skills & knowledge
- Chairing meetings and events and managing competing views inclusively
- Engaging, challenging and supporting senior leaders
- Championing equality, diversity and inclusion and culture change
- Statutory and regulatory governance, risk management and Board assurance in a regulated industry
- Financial stewardship, probity and directors' statutory and fiduciary duties
- Collaborating across organisational boundaries with sociopolitical acumen
Other
- Assessing competing priorities with a focus on patient and public benefit
- Engaging patients, communities and diverse stakeholders with empathy
- A high degree of personal integrity and resilience
- Three referees covering at least six years of employment
Nice to have
- Recent experience and understanding of implementing digital strategies and complex technology transformations
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
