Non Executive Director

Essential

• Empathy, compassion and an understanding of the complex challenges of mental health and disability issues
• Board level experience in a large organisation whether gained in the private, public, or voluntary sector, well respected with strong reputation in their chosen field.
• A good knowledge and experience of corporate governance, strategy formulation, change management and financial management
• Politically astute, able to grasp relevant issues and understand the relationships between interested parties.
• Excellent partnership and relationship management skills; a good understanding of public and voluntary sector organisations
• Accustomed to being held to a high level of accountability and experienced in holding others to account
• Ability to understand and accept the legal duties and liabilities of Non- Executive Directors and the regulatory framework in which the NHS operates.
• Experience of leading and delivering transformational change in an open and inclusive way, with a natural ability to communicate with service users and carers, communities and colleagues as well as managing complex political environments
• Experience of effective joint working with other statutory, third sector or private sector organisations
• Qualified to be a member of the CNTW NHS FT (please refer to the Eligibility section of the recruitment website

Essential

• Commitment to continuously improving outcomes, tackling health inequalities, and delivering the best value for money for the taxpayer
• Commitment to upholding, the NHS principles and values outlined in the NHS Constitution
• Commitment to ensuring that the organisation values diversity, and promotes equality and inclusivity in all aspects of their business
• Commitment to promoting integration where this is in the patients' best interest
• Committed to 'system working', partnering across organisations to deliver on key priorities set out in NHS Long Term Plan
• An effective decision maker who leads by example and can take others with them
• Flexible and adaptable in approach, enabling him/her to respond to the situation accordingly
• Strategic thinker with the ability to communicate a vision and engage followership
• Personal integrity and commitment to openness
• Independent in judgement
• Commitment to the NHS, CNTW and other partners within the system for the benefit of health services and the wider population
• Exceptional engagement skills; and able to communicate well with a range of people including staff and service users.
• Strong inter-personal skills to contribute to discussions to achieve common goals
• Ability to represent the Trust at regional and national levels
• Able to weigh up arguments and summarise key issues
• Commitment to NHS values and principles; understands aims of NHS Foundation Trusts; and demonstrates understanding of role of Governors.
• Ability to contribute to the development of a strong organisational values-driven culture.

Essential

• Demonstrates an ability to work effectively and with sound judgement in a highly complex and dynamic environment
• The ability to develop, with service users, carers, colleagues and partners a clear and compelling organisational narrative that describes the future strategy of the Trust, and to communicate this narrative and progress to a wide range of audiences
• The ability to communicate complex health and care issues in laypersons language at public meetings.
• Understand and analyse complex issues, drawing on the breadth of data that needs to inform the Trust's deliberations and decision-making; and the wisdom to ensure that it is used ethically to balance competing priorities and make difficult decisions.
• The ability to influence and persuade others articulating a well-founded view and to engage in constructive debate without being adversarial or losing respect and goodwill
• The ability to take an objective view, seeing issues from all perspectives and especially external and service user and carer perspectives
• Capability to work across organisational boundaries

Essential

• Contribute to setting the direction and strategy and aspirations of the Trust and act in a manner consistent with its values
• Create a compelling vision for the future and communicate this within and across organisations
• Work with others in teams and networks and engage, listen, and involve service users, carers and communities to provide services with a view to continuous improvement
• Demonstrate resilience, independence of thought, emotional intelligence, the ability to work through conflict and ambiguity and the ability to demonstrate a range of leadership styles to secure results
• A level of political astuteness with highly developed skills in engaging and influencing
• Demonstrate presence and engage people by the way they communicate, behave, and interact with others