Non- Executive Director | Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 29 April 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £13,000 Per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 30 May 2025 |
| Location: | Swindon, SN3 6BB |
| Company: | The Great Western Hospitals NHS FT |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7174729/249-7174729 |
Summary
Non - Executive Director
Are you an experienced professional looking to make a real impact on healthcare in Swindon and Wiltshire? Would you like to gain valuable Board-level experience and skills?
We are seeking two passionate and experienced professionals to add value to our progressive and dynamic Board as an Non-Executive Director. We are looking for individuals that have expertise and experience with the following sectors;
• Clinical
• Legal
• Strategic
• Equality and Diversity
These roles is integral to our organisation and will work collectively with the Trust Non-Executive Directors, Chair, and CEO to ensure that the Trust provides high-quality services to our patients and maintains a culture of continuous improvement.
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is led by a Board of Directors which has collective responsibility for providing leadership to the organisation within a framework of prudent and effective controls, setting strategic direction and ensuring management capacity and capability.
As Non-executive Director you will monitor and manage performance and safeguard values and ensure the organisation’s obligations to its key stakeholders are met.
The Non-Executive Directors (NEDs) are accountable to the Chairman of the Trust who also Chairs the Council of Governors. The Council of Governors of an NHS Foundation Trust has specific responsibility for the appointment of the NEDs.
In late summer 2024 Great Western Hospitals Foundation trust (GWH), Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust (RUH) and Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) agreed to form a Group.
The Group employs circa 15,000 members of staff and has a combined turnover of £1.42billion. The aim of the Group model is to improve quality and access for the people within the Bath, Swindon and Wiltshire Integrated Case System (BSW), while enhancing opportunities for our staff and responding to the financial environment the Group is now facing.
The three Trusts have been working increasingly closely since 2018 but the introduction of the Group model will accelerate and broaden our collaborative work, realise the benefits of working at scale and transform our services for the future.
The Great Western Hospital provides services in Swindon and the surrounding area to a catchment population of 233,000. The Trust provides emergency care, elective surgery, paediatric, maternity, outpatients and diagnostics, care of children and young people and end of life care.
The Trust recently opened its new Emergency Department and Children’s Emergency Unit. GWH has 5,100 staff who deliver over 50 different clinical services and has a turnover of £505 million. We are an ambitious and progressive organisation with Safety, quality and patient experience at the forefront of every decision we make and is the golden thread throughout all that we do.
Those who are successful in their applications will join our ambitious Trust with a mandate to make a real impact on the outcomes for the people we serve. We will support any successful candidate to be the best version of themselves and we would therefore like to encourage applicants from any underrepresented groups.
For a candidate brochure which contains further details on the role and how to apply, please contact Ryan Jary or Arie Peursum Deputy Recruitment Manager, at Arie.Peursum@nhs.net | Ryan.Jary@nhs.net
We look forward to hearing from you.
Providing leadership and ensure that the strategic direction of the Trust is in accordance with government policy, Trust’s strategy, the Annual Plan and the terms of Authorisation issued by NHS Improvement, the independent Regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts.
Ensuring that the Trust provides high quality services to our patients and that there is a culture of continuous improvement.
Please see attached full Job Description
This advert closes on Tuesday 20 May 2025
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