Non Executive Director - Clinical
| Posting date: | 16 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Negotiable |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 March 2026 |
| Location: | Blackpool, FY3 8NR |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9382-26-0166 |
Summary
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Strategic Leadership & Clinical Quality Provide authoritative clinical insight to inform longterm organisational strategy, ensuring service development, workforce planning and transformation programmes reflect best practice and evidencebased care. Review and oversee strategies relating to quality improvement, patient safety, clinical effectiveness and professional standards. Offer independent challenge on proposals affecting clinical pathways, models of care, or patient outcomes. Hold the Executive Team to account for delivering highquality, safe and personcentred care, ensuring quality and safety are prioritised alongside operational and financial considerations. Assurance, Governance & Risk Ensure that clinical governance frameworks, risk management systems, and regulatory compliance processes are rigorous, defensible and aligned to national requirements (including CQC expectations). Scrutinise quality, safety and performance reports, triangulating data across clinical, operational, workforce and patientexperience domains. Support the Quality Committee (or equivalent) by offering independent, evidenceinformed judgement on clinical matters. Promote a culture of early risk identification, transparent learning from incidents, and continuous improvement. Culture, Values & Workforce Leadership Champion the Trusts values of Caring, Safe, Respectful across all clinical-related governance and decisionmaking. Act as a visible advocate for a compassionate, open and inclusive culture, encouraging professional integrity, high standards and safe behaviours. Promote initiatives that support staff wellbeing, clinical leadership development, safe staffing and a positive working environment. Ensure equality, diversity and inclusion are embedded within the clinical workforce and care delivery. Relationship with the Council of Governors Maintain a constructive relationship with the Council of Governors, ensuring they receive clear, meaningful insight into clinical performance, risks and strategic priorities. Attend relevant Governor meetings to support their statutory responsibility in holding NEDs to account for quality, safety and patientcentred outcomes. Provide assurance to Governors that the Board is effectively overseeing clinical quality and regulatory compliance. External Influence & Partnerships Represent the Trust within wider system leadership forums, including the Integrated Care System (ICS), contributing clinical expertise to collaborative planning and service redesign. Build strong relationships with partner organisations, regulators, healthcare providers, local authorities and community stakeholders. Support the development of integrated, systemwide models of care that improve population health outcomes and reduce health inequalities Eligibility & Regulatory Requirements Must be a member of the Trusts public constituency. Must satisfy the NHS England Fit and Proper Persons Framework Regulations and not be disqualified under the Trust Constitution or Provider Licence. Expected to uphold the highest standards of probity, integrity and conduct as set out in the Boards Code of Conduct.