Chair
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 14 Gorffennaf 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £44,100.00 i £50,000.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £44100.00 - £50000.00 a year |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 11 Awst 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Wigan, WN1 2NN |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | C9302-25-0394 |
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The Chair leads the Board of Directors and the Council of Governors, ensuring the highest standards of governance, strategic leadership, and stakeholder engagement. This includes maintaining financial viability, patient safety, and organisational integrity. The Chair is a key representative of the Trust, setting a tone of openness, compassion and accountability. Leadership and Strategy Provide visible, dynamic, and aspirational leadership to the Board, aligning culture and behaviours with the Trusts values. Ensure long-term strategic direction, transformation, and financial sustainability, working closely with the Chief Executive. Guide the Board in overseeing the delivery of high-quality, safe, and patient-centred care, including strategic plans like Better Lives and the People and Culture Strategy. Establish clear objectives and lead the Board in monitoring performance and managing risks. Represent WWL within the Greater Manchester Integrated Care System, influencing system strategy and collaboration.Governance and Compliance Promote and uphold the highest standards of corporate governance, ethics, and NHS values. Promoting equality of opportunity and human rights in the treatment of all staff and patients by ensuring that the Trusts internal governance arrangements conform with best practice and statutory requirements Ensure compliance with statutory responsibilities, including the Provider Licence, NHS Constitution, CQC standards, and the Trusts Constitution. Ensure financial control and value for money through prudent oversight and compliance with NHS England frameworks. Support the Director of Corporate Governance to ensure the effectiveness of the Boards systems, committees, and assurance processes. Board Performance and Relationships Foster an environment of effective teamwork, challenge, and collective decision- making. Chair Board and committee meetings, ensuring productive and inclusive discussion and proper scrutiny of executive decisions. Lead on the annual evaluation and development of the Board, its committees, and individual members. Support and appraise the Chief Executive and ensure regular evaluation of Non- Executive Directors performance. Facilitate appropriate succession planning and skills development across the Board. Council of Governors Establish an effective and constructive working relationship with the Council of Governors, ensuring they are well-informed and able to fulfil their statutory duties. Lead the Council in holding Non-Executive Directors to account and in its role in key appointments, planning, and oversight. Ensure clear, timely, and transparent communication with Governors on Trust strategy, performance, and quality matters. Support the training and development of Governors to strengthen engagement and effectiveness.Stakeholder Engagement and Representation Act as an ambassador for the Trust, its patients and staff; developing and maintaining relationships with local, regional, and national stakeholders. Work with partners across health, care, local authority, education, and voluntary sectors to support system-wide improvement. Support public, member and patient engagement strategies that enhance WWLs role as an anchor institution in the borough. Ensure that the Trust contributes to integrated care developments and community health priorities. Responsibility for Health & Safety Compliance with the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974: The post holder is required to fulfil a proactive role towards the management of risk in all of their actions. This entails the risk assessment of all situations, the taking of appropriate actions and reporting of all incidents, near misses and hazards, and a statutory duty of care for their own personal safety and that of others who may be affected by their acts or omissions. Shortlisted candidates will be required to provide an acceptable Fit and Proper Person declaration in order to progress to the later stages of the recruitment process.