The role: Non Executive Director and Chair, Finance & Performance Committee
Priorities
NHS Sussex Independent Non-Executive Directors will:
- work collaboratively to shape the long-term, viable plan for the delivery of the functions, duties, and strategic objectives of NHS Sussex; determine strategy and priorities; identify and mitigate risks; and ensure the effective stewardship of public money;
- ensure that the Board is effective in all aspects of its role and appropriately focused on its four core purposes, namely to: improve outcomes in population health; reduce inequalities in access, experience and outcomes; enhance productivity and value for money, and support broader social and economic development;
- be champions of robust governance, collaborative leadership and effective partnership working, including with local government, NHS bodies and the voluntary sector;
- support the NHS Sussex Chair and the wider Board on issues that impact organisations and workforce across the ICS, such as integration; the productivity agenda; digital transformation; and emergency preparedness, resilience, and response; and
- play a key role in delivering the statutory arrangements for the ICS to ensure that NHS Sussex meets its statutory duties and builds strong partnerships with system partners.
Accountabilities
NHS Sussex Independent Non-Executive Directors will:
- be accountable to the NHS Sussex Chair;
- have designated areas of responsibilities, as agreed with the NHS Sussex Chair;
- have a collective responsibility with the other members of the NHS Sussex Board to ensure corporate accountability for the performance of the organisation, ensuring its functions are effectively and efficiently discharged and its financial obligations are met.
Responsibilities and Competencies
You will work alongside the Chair, other Non-Executive Directors, Executive Directors, and Partner Members and as an equal member of the unitary Board you are likely to be responsible for specific areas relating to board governance and oversight. You will bring independent and respectful challenge to the plans, aims and priorities of NHS Sussex, and promote open and transparent decision-making that facilitates consensus aimed at delivering exceptional outcomes for our population.
Personally, you will bring a range of professional expertise, which includes successful commercial, finance and/or general management experience, together with your lived experience and understanding of communities in Sussex that will inform the work of the Board. We are interested in your personal experiences, insights and motivations that might have been gained through being a patient, carer, or service user. Similarly, we are keen to bring to the Board experiences of gender and women’s issues; engaging with diverse social, economic, and cultural groups and communities; and understanding of the experiences and challenges of younger people, and people living with mental health issues and/or physical chronic conditions or disability.
As an NHS leader, you will demonstrate a range of competencies spanning the following areas:
- Setting the vision and overseeing the implementation of our Improving Lives Together strategy through our Sussex Shared Delivery Plan, to achieve the four core purposes of the ICS and the ‘triple aim’ of improved population health; improved quality of care; and cost-control.
- Promoting dialogue and consensus with local government and broader partners, to ensure effective joint planning and delivery for system working and mutual accountability.
- Supporting the development of the Assembly and in maintaining strong relationships between NHS Sussex and the Assembly.
- Supporting the success of the Assembly in establishing shared strategic priorities, in partnership with local government, to tackle population health challenges and enhance services across health and social care.
- Advocating diversity, health equality and social justice to close the gap on health inequalities and achieve the service changes that are needed to improve population health.
- Ensuring NHS Sussex is responsive to the needs of people and communities and that public, patient and carer voices are embedded in all of the NHS Sussex plans and activities.
- Promoting the values of the NHS Constitution and modelling the behaviours embodied in Our People Promise to ensure a collaborative, inclusive and productive approach across the system.
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Overseeing purposeful arrangements for effective leadership of clinical and professional care throughout NHS Sussex and the ICS.
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Fostering a culture of research, innovation, learning and continuous improvement to support the delivery of high-quality services for all.
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Ensuring the NHS plays its part in social and economic development and achieving environmental sustainability, including the Carbon Net Zero commitment.
- Maintaining oversight of the delivery of NHS Sussex plans, ensuring expected outcomes are delivered in a timely manner through the proportionate management of risks.
- Ensuring that NHS Sussex operates to deliver its functions in line with all of its statutory duties, and that compliance with the expected standards of the regulatory bodies is maintained.
- Collectively ensuring that NHS Sussex is compliant with its constitution and contractual obligations, holding other members of NHS Sussex and the ICS to account through constructive, independent, and respectful challenge.
- Supporting the development of other Board members to maximise their contribution.
- Providing visible leadership in developing a healthy and inclusive culture for the organisation, which promotes diversity, encourages, and enables system working, and which is reflected and modelled in the Board’s collective behaviours and decision-making.
- Ensuring the Board acts in accordance with the highest ethical standards of public service and that any conflicts are appropriately resolved.