Neurosurgery Specialised Services Clinical Network Chair

4 weeks ago


Salford Greater Manchester, United Kingdom Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The North West Neurosurgery Specialised Services Clinical Network is funded by NHS England and Hosted by the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust.


New to the region and in its establishment phase, the Network seeks a talented Chair to lead and develop the Network Board as it defines a first strategy and transitions to a growth and delivery phase.


With an established Network, the Chair will continue leading, supporting, and challenging the Board whilst developing collaborative external relationships and partnerships.
The Chair, Clinical Lead, and Network Manager set the Network's tone. The Chair cultivates a strong collaborative relationship between the Network Officers and Membership body towards a unified Board.


Collaboration and partnerships - building the broader collaborative with stakeholders, and Integrated Care Board stakeholders, whilst balancing regional and provider priorities with the national vision
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.


As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
The Chair is responsible for and represents the Network Board. The Chair's principal responsibility is to oversee the Board's effectiveness in setting and implementing the Networks strategy. Ensuring the Board is effective in determining the Networks Vision, Strategy, and Annual Plan with regard to clinical best practice, regulation, legislation, national and local priorities, risk, and financial implications


Ensuring the Board understands the impact of strategy delivery through evaluation and monitoring arrangements for key performance indicators (KPI), and objective key results (OKR)


Ensuring the Board identifies the risks (including population health risks) to delivering the Strategy and Annual Plan determines an approach and attitude to providing effective risk oversight and prudent controls to assist risk management


Promote standards of ethics, integrity, probity and good governance through the Network and the Board


Develop positive working relationships with the Network Officers (Clinical Lead (Strategy), and Network Manager), and the Membership Body providing support, guidance, and advice


Reviewing the Boards composition and diversity of skills, knowledge, and perspectives


Considering succession planning, attracting, retaining, and developing talent


Ensure the Board operates effectively and understands its own accountability and compliance with its approved procedures, for example, meeting reporting and risk management duties


Setting a Board agenda relevant to the Networks current operating environment and taking full account of the important strategic issues and risks


Ensuring the Board receives accurate, high quality, timely and clear information (e.g. incident data, surveys, external reviews, regulatory intelligence), that the Networks assurance systems are fit for purpose to recognise and identify early warning signals and risk, and there is an effective information flow between the Board, the Networks programmes, and stakeholders


Ensuring the Networks programmes are properly constituted and effective and Network resources are appropriately prioritised


Seek out and act on performance feedback and review, building skills and capability


Providing the environment for agile debate, which considers the broader healthcare system


Working with the Network Manager to set and maintain the annual business cycle


Ensure all Board members are well briefed on the external context (e.g. political, economic, sociological, technological, legal, and environmental (PESTLE)) and this is reflected in the debate


Foster a culture of innovation and learning by being outward-looking, promoting and embedding innovation, technology, and transformation through the Boards business and debate


Promote academic excellence and research as a means of developing Neurosurgery services


Ensure Network performance is accurately measured


Ensure the Board maintains an interest in and focus on the continuous improvement of Neurosurgery service Access, Outcomes, and Experience


Promote the role of the Board and the Network, fostering productive partnerships and harnessing opportunities to build and strengthen collaborative working


Engage with the Membership Body and stakeholders to develop the Network Collective further to enable population health improvement and health inequality reduction


Knowledge, Training and Experience
Knowledge of - Specialised services commissioning Networks, the tenets of collaboration, strategic decision-making frameworks Constitutional and regulatory NHS Standards Programme management governance, and evaluation
Experience of - Setting, leading, and delivering long-term vision and strategy Leading transformational change in complex multi-organisational collaborative partnerships Managing budgets and people Building effective, teams, encouraging change and innovation and shaping an open, inclusive, and compassionate culture Setting Board agendas and business cycles Facilitating effective meetings and decision-making

Knowledge of the Neurosurgery Policy Drivers and local context
Experience in building consensus across varied stakeholder groups with potentially conflicting priorities
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
Salford Royal Hospital



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