Board Chair

**About Medicus Health Partners**:
Medicus Health Partners (MHP) is a Super-partnership over thirteen GP practice locations/ GP branches in Enfield with central governance, operations and finance teams. We have over 92,000 registered patients and more than 300 staff with a strong patient focused ethos. We are looking to recruit the right individual to champion a culture of quality across the organisation.

**Role of the Chair**

The chair will preside over the monthly MHP board meetings on the last Thursday of the month. The chair will meet with the Managing Partners 10-14 days before the board meeting for agenda setting and discussion. The board chair will facilitate additional meetings as required.

The board chair will dedicate at least 4 hours per week to the Medicus Health Partners chair role.

**Renumeration
- £15,000 per year
- One year fixed term**

**The board chair is responsible for**:

- Ensuring the integrity and effectiveness of the board’s governance role and processes.
- Presiding at meetings of the board & the board’s Management Team
- Maintaining effective relationships with board members, management and stakeholders.

**Responsibilities**

**Board Governance**

The board chair ensures the board meets its obligations and fulfils its governance responsibilities. The board chair oversees the quality of the board’s governance processes including:

- Ensuring that the board performs a governance role that respects and understands the role of management.
- Ensuring that the board adopts an annual workplan and objectives that are consistent with the MHP strategic directions, mission and vision.
- Ensuring that the work of the board committees is aligned with the board’s role and annual work plan and that the board respects and understands the role of board committees and does not redo committee work at the board level.
- Ensuring board succession by ensuring there are processes in place to recruit, select and train clinical leads with the skills, experience, background and personal qualities required for effective board governance.
- Ensuring that the board and individual leads have access to appropriate education.
- Overseeing the board’s evaluation processes and providing constructive feedback to individual committee chairs and board members as required.
- Ensuring that the board’s governance structures and processes are reviewed, evaluated, and revised from time to time.

**Presiding Officer**

The chair is the presiding officer at board meetings and meetings of the committees specified above. As the presiding officer, the chair is responsible for:

- Setting agendas and ensuring matters are dealt with to appropriately reflect the board’s role and annual work plan.

The board chair consults with the Management Team and where possible develops the agenda at least 10 days prior to a meeting.
- The board chair consults with the Board Management Team and where possible develops the agenda at least 14 days prior to a meeting.
- Ensuring that meetings are conducted according to applicable legislation and the MHP governance policies.
- Facilitating the business of the board, including preserving order at meetings.
- Encouraging input and ensuring that both sides of a debate or discussion are heard.
- Encouraging all Board Members to participate and controlling dominant members.
- Facilitating decision-making.
- Ensuring relevant information is made available in a timely manner and that external advisors are available to assist as required.
- Ruling on procedural matters during meetings.

**Representation**
- The chair is the official spokesperson for the board.

**Relationships**

The board chair facilitates relationships with, and communication among, board members and between board members and senior management.

The chair establishes a relationship with individual members, meeting with each member of the Management Team at least once a year to ensure that each director contributes his/her special skill and expertise effectively.

The chair provides assistance and advice to committee chairs to ensure committee chairs understand board expectations and have the resources that are required for performance of their work.

The chair maintains a constructive working relationship with the Management Team, providing advice and counsel as required.
- The chair works with the Management Team to ensure he or she understands board expectations.
- The chair ensures that Management Team annual performance objectives are established, and an annual evaluation of the Management Team is performed.

**Other Duties**
- The chair performs such other duties as the board determines from time to time.

**Skills and Qualifications**

The board chair will possess the following personal qualities, skills, and experience:

- All of the personal qualifications required of a board member
- Proven leadership skills
- Good strategic and facilitation skills, ability to influence and achieve consensus
- Ability to a