Address As one of our three new Board members, you will be joining East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust at an incredibly exciting time. We are focused on becoming an outstanding Trust with people-centred leadership supporting our 6,800 dedicated staff to provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant cultural and organisational transformation, and we have just started a 3-year partnership with the Virginia Mason Institute, which will embed a lean-based quality management system across the Trust. We are also in the process of applying for Teaching Hospital status with the support of our academic partners including the University of Hertfordshire, the University of Cambridge and University College London.
We are looking for Board colleagues who are committed to working with our local communities, patients, staff and system partners to bring about improvements in patient access, outcomes and experience, and so achieve better health outcomes and healthier life expectancies. Increasingly, this will require i ndividuals who are able to think laterally and creatively to help us solve our patients’ challenges, and so start to tackle the health inequalities which exist in Hertfordshire. We are also actively working to achieve a more inclusive and representative workforce where diversity is actively valued and celebrated, and this is especially important at senior levels, including the Board.
There are vacancies for two Non-executive Directors (NED) and one Associate NED at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust. These are exceptional opportunities to share your talents and expertise to make a positive difference to the lives of people served by the Trust.
NEDs are full Board Members who will be expected to take significant roles in Board meetings and sub-Board committees, including chairing meetings as needed. The Associate NED role could be suitable for an experienced NED or someone who has not been a NED in the NHS before. Associate NEDs perform very similar roles to NEDs but cannot participate in formal votes at Board meetings.
The successful candidate for the Associate role may also be considered for appointment as a NED on the Board in future, should a vacancy arise for which they have the appropriate skills.
We need diverse, inclusive and compassionate leaders who not only reflect the community they serve and the staff employed by our Trust but have the leadership style and breadth of perspective to make good collective decisions. In non-executive roles nationally, it is known that people from disadvantaged groups including women, people from the local Black Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, LGBT communities, care leavers, younger people and those with lived experience of disability are all under-represented. We want to change this and positively welcome applications from individuals who can bring their diverse perspectives to our Board.
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust provides a wide range of acute and tertiary care services. Operating across four main sites, we predominantly serve the population of east and north Hertfordshire and parts of south Bedfordshire, covering 600,000 people. Additionally, 2 million people living in Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, north-west London and part of the Thames Valley are eligible for care at our Mount Vernon Cancer Centre.
We are an organisation with a strong culture of positive values and our vision is: To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service.
Please see the candidate application pack for full information about the role and how to apply.
The person specifications for these three roles are included in the application pack, and they set out the qualities and experience that we are looking for. We know that not everyone who may be interested in these roles will be able to demonstrate the exact requirements that we have specified and so may be deterred from applying. If that applies to you, but you still believe that you could make a positive impact in one of these roles, please get in touch.
