Chair of Remuneration and Nomination Committee

4 weeks ago


Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom Livewell Southwest Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced individual to join our team as the Chair of Remuneration and Nomination Committee. This is a key leadership role that will play a critical part in shaping the future of our organization.

Key Responsibilities
  • Oversee the activity of the committee, ensuring fair, transparent, and robust processes are adopted and maintained for all remuneration and nomination matters.
  • Promote the vision, values, and objectives of Livewell Southwest and take an active role in developing the organization's strategy in relation to remuneration.
  • Promote the development of a listening organization, attuned to the voice of people and carers using our services and staff.
  • Work closely with colleagues in a supportive and constructively challenging manner, using specialist skills, judgment, and advice.
  • Oversee the recruitment process and appointment of the executive team and Non-Executive Directors through the Committee.
  • Demonstrate agreed values and standards and ensure that Livewell Southwest's obligations to its stakeholders and the wider community are understood and fairly balanced at all times.
  • Engage positively and collaboratively in committee discussions.
  • Ensure that the organization values diversity in its workforce and demonstrates equality of opportunity in its treatment of staff and patients and in all aspects of its business.
  • Bring independent judgment and experience based on commercial, financial, and legal or governance expertise.
About Us

Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise providing integrated health and social care services for people across Plymouth, South Hams, and West Devon, as well as some specialist services for people living in parts of Devon and Cornwall.

We are committed to involving the people we care for, families, and carers in everything that we do, working towards co-production where we can. Helping us to deliver the right care for people, in the right place, and at the right time. By putting people at the centre of what we do, we ensure to support people to lead healthy, independent lives and be the very best at helping people to live well.

Person Specification

Personal Qualities

  • Commitment to Livewell Southwest's values, principles, and aim as a CIC.
  • Well-respected and accustomed to a high level of accountability.
  • Able to demonstrate strategic leadership skills and engender respect from others.
  • A good listener, able to weigh up arguments and summarize for others.
  • Work with board members, and others as appropriate to meet common goals and ensure they utilize their skills and expertise for the good of the Company.
  • Politically astute, able to grasp relevant issues and understand the relationships between interested parties.
  • Be independent in judgment and think creatively.
  • Strong inter-personal skills, communication skills.
  • A proven negotiator with an understanding of the wider implications of decisions and experience of alliances and partnership working.

Experience

  • Experience of chairing a Remunerations / Nomination Committee (or similar) in an organization of comparable size and complexity.
  • Experience of senior management within an organization with a significant budget and of comparable size and complexity.
  • A proven track record of working within communities.
  • An entrepreneurial approach with a successful reputation gained within their field.
  • A portfolio of high-level governance and organizational skills including strategic planning, financial management, risk management, organization performance management, and service delivery and development in a regulated environment.
  • Experience of, and a high level of commitment to, building and developing successful partnerships, alliances, and working relationships with a range of stakeholders.
  • Experience of either social enterprise or third sector organizations would also be desirable.
  • In addition, some understanding of health service delivery will be considered desirable together with knowledge and understanding of the Plymouth community, its demographics, and the health needs of the population.

Competencies

  • Patient and community focus: high level of commitment to patients, service users, carers, and the community and to tackling health inequalities in disadvantaged groups.
  • Self-belief and drive: the motivation to inspire continuous improvement in services supporting health and well-being and drive organizational performance with the confidence to take on challenges.
  • Intellectual flexibility: the ability to be creative, make sense of complexity, and clarify it for other people.
  • Strategic direction: the ability to develop a clear vision and enthuse others.
  • Holding to account: the willingness to be held to account for Board performance and to manage relationships with other Board members.
  • Team working: the ability to take on a personal leadership role and build a strong and effective team.
  • Effective influencing and communication: a high level of ability to gain support and influence, as well as considerable political acumen.
  • Change Management: ability to understand issues of change and its impact on staff and management.

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