Assistant to The CEO/head of Assurance

3 weeks ago


Carlisle, United Kingdom North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle

Agenda for Change Band 9

Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer, the post holder will be key to achieving the Trust’s vision and ambitions, and as a member of the Trust’s senior leadership team, will provide insight, support and advice, to assist in the delivery of the Trust’s objectives.

The postholder will be a key support to the CEO, assisting them to carry out elements of their administrative functions, escalating risks, and ensuring regional returns and activities are completed.

You will also lead and manage the Project Management Office (PMO) Team, providing strategic leadership and support to this service.

You will also take the lead on developing the Trusts Cultural Improvement Strategy and plan, and will be instrumental in working collaboratively with all groups to enhance, further develop and embed a culture of improvement within NCIC, providing the Clinical Collaboratives and corporate departments with an offer of support, advice and information.

For a discussion regarding this role, please contact our CEO, Lyn Simpson

We are seeking a highly competent individual who has experience in board-level director roles within NHS organisations, with a successful history of strategic transformation initiatives that deliver measurable improvements in the areas of finance, safety, culture, and structural sustainability. You will have a strong track record of successful strategy development, implementation, and evaluation, leading to tangible outcomes. Recent experience as a board-level director within an NHS organisation that has achieved an overall CQC rating improvement to ‘Good’ is also an essential requirement.

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding hospital and health services to half a million people. Established on 1st October 2019, the Trust is creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout north Cumbria and beyond. We’re responsible for delivering over 70 services across 15 main locations and we employ more than 6,500 members of staff.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of ‘safe, high quality care every time’.
- Being a clinically led organisation
- Quality and safety at the heart
- A positive patient experience every time
- A great place to work
- Managing our money well

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. There is an expectation for all staff to support this by familiarising yourself with the Trust’s sustainability initiatives such as waste and recycling, going paperless, videoconferencing, sustainable transport and others.

We encourage you to think about what you can do as an individual and within your team to contribute in to embedding carbon reduction into the everyday running of our organisation.

Please see attached Job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see ourPolicyfor eligible vacancies
- Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.

Important Information
- Junk Mail is checked regularly

**Disclosure and Barring Service**:
On 28 November 2020, the new Disclosure and Barring Service filtering rules will come into effect.

**The changes mean that**:

- the multiple conviction rule has been removed, meaning that if an individual has more than one conviction, regardless of offence type or time passed, each conviction will be considered against the remaining rules individually, rather than being automatically disclosed.

If you are unsure about whether you need to disclose certain criminal record information, free confidential advice may be sought from one of the charity bodies listed below. These bodies can advise you on what you are legally required to declare and may also be able to advise you on how you can disclose criminal record information to a prospective employer and your legal rights when doing so.

**Standard Check**: £18 + Administration cost of £3.85 = £21.85. Deducted at £6.85 from 1st month salary and £5 deducted from salary over following 3 months.

**Enhanced Check**: £38 + administration cost of £3.90 = £41.90. Deducted at £11.90 from 1st month salary and £10 deducted from salary over following 3 months.

As part of the one of the largest employers in the UK NCIC future employees will have also access to the following benefits.

A lease car may be available for this position; further details will be p



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