Non Executive Director

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The role:

We are looking to appoint a Non-Executive Director to join our dynamic & established Board with a wide range of professional backgrounds & lived experience.

Are you:

• a strategic senior leader with board-level (or equivalent) experience gained in complex, changing & multi-stakeholder environments.
• a proven senior clinical leader, whether as a paramedic (or other allied health professional), nurse or medic including those in academia or research settings.
• able to bring professional clinical insight & strong experience of clinical governance as you would join our Quality Committee.

As a Non-Executive Director you will

• be accountable to the public & our membership through our Council of Governors.
• provide oversight, governance leadership & scrutiny as part of a cohesive & values-led Unitary Board.
• demonstrate compassion for our staff & the communities we serve, promote the highest standards of integrity & corporate governance, collective decision making & offer independent challenge & support.

Do you want to be a part of an organisation that places patients at the heart of everything they do? Are you excited by challenge & intellectual stimulation, thrive in complexity & guided by a passion for improvement & social value? If so, this role is for you.

Constructively challenge & contribute to the development of strategy, providing objective judgement independent of management on issues facing the Trust.

Support & challenge the development of the Trust's values & standards ensuring the needs of patients & the wider community are understood and fairly balanced.

Contribute to the achievement of the Trust vision & alignment with core values, liaising & working with the Council of Governors.

Scrutinise the performance of executive management on meeting agreed goals & objectives, monitor the reporting of performance & contribute corporately to the work of the Board.

Ensure the highest standards of probity, integrity & governance are met such that the Trust complies with the terms of its authorisation by NHS England, its constitution, relevant legislation, mandatory guidance & other relevant obligations.

Support entrepreneurial leadership within the Trust within a framework of prudent & effective controls, which enable risk to be assessed & managed.

Engage positively & collaboratively in Board discussion of agenda items.

Seek assurance over effective operations of the Trust's wholly-owned subsidiary North East Ambulance Unified Solutions (NEASUS).

Act as an ambassador for the Trust in engagement with local, regional & national stakeholders, promoting & nurturing partnership working at local place level & with the North East & North Cumbria Integrated Care System.

We employ 3,500 staff in 63 locations and serve a population of 2,600,000 in Northumberland, Tyne & Wear, County Durham, and Tees over 3230 square miles.

Many people think the job of the ambulance service is to collect patients and take them to hospital, but we do much more

Paramedic skills have developed hugely in recent years, meaning we carry out more treatment at the scene and en-route to hospital.

We have a dedicated clinical assessment service that allows us to provide patients with the most appropriate care from the beginning of the patient journey.

We have a specialised branch of the Trust called HART which deal with explosions or terrorist attacks.

Ultimately patients are the heart of everything that we do to support our mission of "safe, effective and responsive care for all".

We value and respect the diversity employees bring to our workplace. We recruit a workforce that reflects the community we serve, and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. To ensure we deliver on our aims in relation to diversity and inclusion we assess ourselves against a range of frameworks. We are ENEI Gold employer, Disability Confident Leader, Dementia Friendly, and part of Mind Blue Light programme and the Race at Work Charter from the Princes Responsible Business Network and are achieving across all objectives in NHS Equality Delivery System.

Please see the attached Role Profile for a full list of duties and responsibilities for this position.