The ICB is looking for a non-executive member, who will chair the Quality and Safety Committee, with clinical experience in the NHS or the independent sector or significant experience in public health at a senior level.
You will be part of a team of six non-executive members and two associate non-executive members.
As chair of the Quality and Safety Committee, you will support the Chief Medical Officer and Chief Nursing Officer in the ICBs work to sustain the safety of patient care, continuously improve the quality of care and patient experience and to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare, by offering advice and constructive challenge. You will use your professional experience and skills to add value to governance and strategic development. Patient safety and care will be at the centre of your actions. You will be able to demonstrate independent and proactive leadership, and champion open, frank and disciplined discussion.
We are really interested in receiving applications from people with different backgrounds, skills and experience.
Integrated care systems (ICSs) are partnerships of health and care organisations, local government, and the voluntary sector. They exist to improve population health, tackle health inequalities, enhance productivity and help the NHS support broader social and economic development. They took on statutory form following the implementation of proposed legislation from July 2022 and comprise an Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Integrated Care Partnership (ICP). The Dorset Integrated Care Board took on Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group’s functions as well as broader strategic responsibility for overseeing healthcare strategies for the system.
About the role
Salary: £16,000 a year
Contract: Three years fixed term
Working pattern: Part-time, flexible working (two -three days a month)
Location: Vespasian House, Barrack Road, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 1TG
As chair of the Quality and Safety Committee, you will support the Chief Medical Officer and Chief Nursing Officer in the ICB’s work to sustain the safety of patient care, continuously improve the quality of care and patient experience and to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare, by offering advice and constructive challenge. You will use your professional experience and skills to add value to governance and strategic development. Patient safety and the quality of care will be at the centre of your actions. You will be able to demonstrate independent and proactive leadership, and champion open, frank and disciplined discussion. You will have clinical experience in the NHS or the independent sector, or significant experience in public health at a senior level.
Role priorities and accountabilities
Chair of Quality and Safety Committee
You will work alongside the Chair, other non-executives, executive directors and partner members, and as members of a unitary board, with the aim of bringing independent and respectful challenge to the plans, aims and priorities of the ICB and promoting open and transparent decision-making that facilitates consensus aimed to deliver exceptional outcomes for the population.
Personally, you will bring a range of professional expertise as well as community understanding and experience to the work of the Board. We are interested in your life experience and personal motivations that will add valuable personal insights such as: being a patient, carer or service user; experience of gender and women’s issues; engaging with diverse social, economic and cultural groups and communities; experiences and challenges of younger people; and those with lived experience of mental health issues and/or living with physical chronic conditions or disability.
Who we are looking for
We are really interested in receiving applications from people with different backgrounds, skills and experience.
The ICB needs diverse, inclusive and compassionate leaders who not only reflect the community they serve, and the staff employed but have the leadership style and breadth of perspective to make good collective decisions.
There is emphatic evidence that diverse boards make the best decisions. We want to increase the diversity of our board team. In non-executive roles nationally, it is known that women, people from the Black Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, LGBT communities, younger people and those with lived experience of disability are all under-represented.
Person specification
As chair of the Quality and Safety Committee, you will:
- Have clinical experience in the NHS or the independent sector, or significant experience in public health at a senior level
- Demonstrate independent and proactive leadership with confidence and integrity
- Champion open, frank and disciplined discussion and be prepared to ask the difficult questions
In addition you will have the following competencies:
Make an application
If you wish to be considered for the role of ICB independent non-executive member role please provide:
- A CV that includes your address and preferred contact details, highlighting and explaining any gaps in your employment history
- A supporting statement that highlights your skills and experience and allows insights on your values and motivations for applying for the role. You should outline your personal responsibility and achievement within previous roles that demonstrates you have the knowledge, skills and competencies to deliver this role, as outlined in the person specification
- The names, positions, organisations and contact details for three referees. Your referees should be individuals in a line management capacity (or senior stakeholders), and cover your most recent roles and employer, any regulated health or social care activity or where roles involved children or vulnerable adults. Your references will be taken prior to interview and may be shared with the selection panel
- Tell us about any dates when you will not be available for the selection process
For more information about the role, Jenni Douglas-Todd, NHS Dorset ICB Chair may be contacted through her office, Christine Storry (01305) 368901 and Christine.Storry@Dorsetccg.nhs.uk