Non-Executive Director(s) - Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom - Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Description

This role is based at Health Innovation North West Coast who are hosted by Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital.

The Non-Executive Director (NED) will work alongside the Chair of the Board and alongside the Executive Team of Health Innovation North West Coast to set the strategic direction, provide effective leadership and support and challenge to the Board.

It will be necessary for the NED to display a constructive, open, impartial and engaging leadership style, providing fair and constructive challenge when required, and acknowledging successful performance.

As a NED of the Health Innovation Network Board you will be required to undertake the following key responsibilities:

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Health Innovation North West Coast , one of England's 15 Health Innovation Networks, collectively acts as the innovation arm of the NHS.

We are commissioned by NHS England and Improvement and the Office for Life Sciences to deliver programmes and support innovations for adoption and spread in our region.

We understand the needs of our health systems and are well placed to broker innovative solutions, while collaborating across England to take what works best and quickly spread it nationally, responding to the diverse needs of patients and our population through partnerships and collaboration.

Please visit our website - Health Innovation North West Coast - Home page )

To provide independent judgment and advice on issues of strategy, vision, performance, resources and standards of conduct and constructively challenge, influence and assist the Executive Team in developing proposals on such strategies.

Develop and maintain strategic networks that will be of benefit to the HINWC.

To bring independent judgment and experience based on medical, clinical, organisational development, research, scientific, entrepreneurial, legal, finance or governance expertise from outside of the HINWC and apply this to the benefit of the organisation, its workforce and its wider community
Be an ambassador for Health Innovation NWC.

Professional or personal experience, qualifications and training
A strong track record of successfully achieving performance targets
Strong evidence of effective partnership working and stakeholder management both with and beyond the NHS sector.
A strong record of leading and holding senior officers to account for high performance.
Strong evidence of working with Black, Asian and minority ethnic groups and leading on equality, diversity and inclusion
Academia, Local Government, Education) and the context in which they operate.

Demonstrable understanding of health-related research and the issues relevant to it.
Experience of working in or at least with an NHS organisation at senior level.

High level of communication and listening skills with the gravitas to support and challenge senior clinicians and other senior stakeholders at regional, national and international level.

Experience in exercising judgment involving complex facts and situations, requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options.

Intellectually flexible, to think broadly and creatively to develop new solutions to difficult issues.
Ability to simultaneously and successfully lead strategic change, performance improvement and cost-effective service delivery.
Resilience, innovation and the ability to influence at regional, national and international level.
A commitment to equality, diversity and wider human rights.

Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital