Non-Executive Director, Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust is a very special organisation. We are an award-winning provider of health and social care services in Hull, the East Riding and North Yorkshire, as well as specialist services for patients from wider Yorkshire and parts of Lincolnshire.

Across our wide range of specialities and expertise we are connected through our commitment to one thing – delivering outstanding care. We never stop thinking about ways to make things better. We don’t just do things because that’s the way they’ve always been done. We’re open to change, trying new things and leading the way in innovation and transformation.

If this sounds something you would like to be part of, we have an exciting opportunity for a Non-Executive Director to join us in our commitment to deliver high quality, safe and sustainable patient care.

All executive and non-executive directors must champion the standards of public life – by upholding the highest standards of conduct and displaying the principles of selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty, and leadership. As a future NHS leader, the successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the range of behaviours, that align to our Behavioural Standards ‘Being Humber’ enabling an effective contribution in this board level role.

Just as importantly, a personal interest and commitment in equality, diversity and inclusion is a priority for this role. We value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for all and appointments are made on merit. We believe that the most successful boards are those that reflect the communities they serve. We particularly welcome applications from women, people from black and minority ethnic communities, and disabled people, who we know are under-represented in Board level roles.

Our recruitment processes are conducted in accordance with the NHS Code of Governance to ensure that they are made on merit after a fair and open process so that the best people, from the widest possible pool of candidates, are appointed.

Our vision, mission, and values

Our vision

We aim to be a leading provider of integrated health services, recognised for the care, compassion and commitment of our staff and known as a great employer and a valued partner.

Our values

Our internal values shape our behaviours and guide the way we work with our patients, staff, partners, within our community and with each other:

Caring for people while ensuring that they are always at the heart of everything we do.
Learning and using proven research as a basis for delivering safe, effective, and integrated care.
Growing our reputation for being a provider of high-quality services and a great place to work.

Thank You for Your Interest in Joining Our Board.
Thank you for considering the opportunity to join Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust as a Non-Executive Director.
If you choose to apply, you’ll be joining us at an exciting point in our journey. We are proud to be the top-performing trust for staff recommending us as a place to work, with a 20% improvement since 2019. Innovation is at the heart of what we do, and we remain ambitious in driving transformation across our services.
As part of our Board’s expansion, we are recruiting a new Non-Executive Director to help shape the future of our organisation. We are particularly interested in individuals who bring:
- Prior Non-Executive or equivalent experience.
- A strong interest in mental health.
- A professional background in private sector industries.
- Insight into strategic transformation and commissioning.
This is a fantastic opportunity to make a meaningful contribution at Board level and influence improved health outcomes for the communities we serve.
The role typically requires a commitment of around four days per month, with additional time expected initially to build a strong understanding of our services and culture.
We are looking for candidates with:
- Strong leadership skills and the ability to engage and inspire.
- A passion for improving health and social care.
- A personal commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion.
- Lived experience and local knowledge that can bring fresh perspectives to our Board.
We particularly welcome applications from women, people from Black and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled individuals, and members of the LGBTQ+ community, as part of our commitment to building a Board that reflects the diverse communities we serve.
To learn more about our Trust, including our business plans, reports, and services, please visit:
About Us - Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
We hope this information inspires you to consider joining us. Thank you again for your interest, and we wish you the very best of luck with your application.
Caroline Flint
Chair
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
We are an award-winning provider of health and social care services in Hull, the East Riding and North Yorkshire. Offering multispecialty services and care, we improve the physical and mental health and wellbeing of patients and service users.
We provide a broad range of community and therapy services, primary care, community, and inpatient mental health services, learning disability services, healthy lifestyle support and addictions services. This includes specialist services for children, incorporating physiotherapy, speech and language therapy and support for children and their families who are experiencing emotional or mental health difficulties.
Our specialist services, such as forensic support and offender health, support patients from the wider Yorkshire and Humber area and further afield. Inspire, our Child and Adolescent Mental Health in-patient unit serves the young people of Hull, East Yorkshire, North and North-East Lincolnshire.
We hold a total of three GP practice contracts, registered to provide care with the Care Quality Commission (CQC). These are a mixture of General Medical Services (GMS) and Personal Medical Services (PMS) contracts in Cottingham, Market Weighton and Bridlington.
We employ more than 3,600 staff working across numerous locations covering Hull, the East Riding of Yorkshire, Whitby, Scarborough, and Ryedale.
We have approximately 8,000 members who we encourage to have their say, elect governors, and help us to make a difference to how local healthcare services are provided. The views of Trust members are represented by our Council of Governors. We have 22 governors made up of public governors, service user and carer governors, appointed governors and staff governors. More than half of the Council of Governors are elected by local people. Nominated governors include representatives of local partnership organisations.
We also have 120 dedicated volunteers who are passionate about working in our services and are available to help patients, staff, and visitors. Their work makes a huge difference to our patients’ experience, whilst improving their own health and wellbeing.
As a Teaching Trust, we work closely with our major academic partners, Hull York Medical School, and The University of Hull, nurturing a workforce of tomorrow's doctors, nurses, and health professionals. The research that we carry out helps to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we serve, our services and the care and treatment of people worldwide.
We have a dedicated Research and Development team involved in both national and global medical research and our fourth annual research conference was held virtually in November, with international delegates and over fifty organisations represented.
Our work as the organisational host for the Yorkshire and Humber Care Record continued this year on behalf of the Yorkshire and Humber ICS system. This partnership aims to provide health and care staff with better and faster access to vital information about the person in their care and aims to provide citizens with access to their information and encourage them to be more involved in looking after their health.
The programme’s ambitious objective is to integrate health and care records across the region, with the aim of improving care by providing timely and relevant information to care professionals and citizens securely and safely.
Our services
Our services cover a vast geographic area comprising Hull, the East Riding of Yorkshire, Scarborough and Ryedale, Pocklington, and Whitby, including nationally commissioned services.
Our services are grouped into four divisions:
- Community and Primary Care
- Children’s and Learning Disabilities
- Forensic Services
- Mental Health Services
Supported by our excellent and award-winning support services, our care is delivered in a variety of settings including in patients own homes, GP practices and health centres, outpatient clinics, hospitals, local authority premises and our inpatient units. More specialised care is provided by the psychiatric intensive care unit and forensic services.
In 2022/23 our Mental Health and Physical Health Community Services saw 87,382 patients, and an additional 1,346 patients were cared for in our mental health units and community beds.
In addition to health and care services, we also provide medical teaching to undergraduates of the Hull York Medical School.
Further information about our services and referral pathways can be found on our website www.humber.nhs.uk
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About the Role
We are looking for a Non-Executive Director to join our Board as we move forward with the next phase of our ambitious plans for the Trust.
These plans include significant capital developments, development of our partnership working agenda and the development of an organisational wide programme of digital and clinical transformation, with huge potential to improve safety and quality.
We are keen to hear from candidates with previous Non-Executive Director or equivalent experience, interest in mental health and a working history in private sector industries. Having experience in digital transformation would be advantageous, in light of our significant transformation in this area.
Our Innovation Hubs encourage ideas and sharing of best practice inside and outside Humber to rethink what our services look like and how they can better deliver.
As a Non-Executive Director, you will be expected to contribute to and play your part in:
Strategy and accountability
- Assist in the setting of the Trust’s strategic aims, ensuring that the necessary financial and human resources are in place.
- Ensure that the Trust manages risk effectively and that all risks taken can be managed.
- Ensure that services are run for the people using them, with particular attention to alignment to the Trust’s Vision, Mission, Strategy and Values, ensuring alignment with the Integrated Care Partnership strategy
- Ensure decision-making complies with the triple aim duty of better health and wellbeing for everyone, better quality of health services for all individuals and sustainable use of NHS resources.
- Give particular attention to the trust’s role in reducing health inequalities in access, experience, and outcomes.
- Promote safety and quality in all aspects of services.
- Have an on-going dialogue with the Council of Governors on progress in delivery of the Trust’s strategic objectives and high level financial and operational performance.
Clinical governance strategy
- Promote the long-term sustainability of the trust as part of the ICS and wider healthcare system in England.
- Analyse and contribute positively to the strategic development of long-term healthcare plans.
- Build and maintain close relations between the Foundation Trust’s constituencies and stakeholder groups to promote the effective operation of the Trust’s activities.
- Act as an ambassador for the Trust in engagement with stakeholders.
Compliance
- Ensure the Foundation Trust meets its commitment to patients and targets for treatment.
- Ensure the Trust establishes and maintains the highest standards of clinical standards.
‍ ‍Specific responsibilities of Non-Executive Directors
- Prepare for, attend, and contribute to the six formal Board of Directors’ meetings, 6 Strategic Board Development meetings, and quarterly Council of Governors’ meetings.
- Chair and attend Board sub-committees as agreed with the Chair.
- To the extent that the required time commitment allows, participate in those activities where it has been agreed that Non-Executive Director’s involvement would bring an external and independent perspective.
- Ensure effective stewardship through planning, strategy, control and value for money.
- Work in conjunction with the Council of Governors to promote public sector values and the interests of Foundation Trust members through good corporate governance.
- Attend the Annual Members’ Meeting and other governor meetings as agreed with the Chair.
- Participate in visits to services and occasional external stakeholder meetings.
- Participate in an annual review and appraisal of own performance with the Chair and Chair of governor-led Appointments, Terms and Conditions Committee and contribute to the annual appraisal of the Chair and periodic reviews of the performance of the Board.
- Support the Chair, Chief Executive and Executive Directors in the governance and stewardship of the Trust.
- When asked to do so by the Chair, act as critical friend in connection with issues relevant to their own skills, expertise, and experience.
Your role and experience
This role will see you as a non-Executive member of the Trust Board who will bring your unique perspective, informed by your expertise to the full range of matters put before the Board and through its established committees.
We are seeking a person with strong leadership skills and a passion for improvement in health and social care. Just as important is the ability to engage and inspire others, and your commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion for all. You may also have lived experience and/or knowledge of our local communities which can bring fresh perspectives to our Board. Training and development support will be provided as required.
Residency criteria
It is highly desirable that applicants live in or have strong connections with the areas where we provide services. You will need to live in a Constituency Area of Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust as defined by our Constitution.
Appointment details
The appointment is for an initial 3-year term. A Non-Executive Director is an office holder only and not an employee of the Trust.
You will be engaged via letter of appointment and paid via payroll, in line with HMRC regulations, for PAYE and NI deductions and contribution to be applied. The notice period is 3 months.
Time commitment
You will be expected to be available for an average 4 days a month, although some flexibility is required. However, during the first few months you may well need to spend more time building up your knowledge of our services.
Remuneration and allowances
£14,798 per annum plus mileage and expenses for formal Trust business. Specific IT equipment can be provided to enable you to conduct your role.
Location
Board activities take place in person and online via MS Teams. Support can be provided. The main location is Trust Headquarters in Willerby, East Riding of Yorkshire. Visits and other events may take place across Trust locations.
Background checks
Given the significant public profile and responsibility members of NHS Boards hold, it is vital that our Board inspires confidence of the public, patients, and NHS staff always. The Trust, in accordance with national guidelines, makes several specific background checks to ensure that those we appoint are “fit and proper” people to hold these important roles.
All applications must include:
• A full curriculum vitae/resume
• Quoting the relevant role reference number: A041408
• A covering letter highlighting the aspects of the job description and Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust that particularly attract you to the post (Microsoft Word document)
• Contact details for three referees, these will not be contacted without your permission. (References should validate a minimum period of six years employment)
• A completed Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form (which you will be redirected to once you have submitted your application) *
Right to work checks
If you are successfully shortlisted, our partner, Yoti, will contact you to complete an online right to work check. This is a quick and secure process, ensuring that all necessary legal requirements are met before proceeding further in the recruitment process.
Monitoring
One of Alumni Global’s and Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust’s objectives is to ensure that its workforce is reflective of the local community and therefore we actively encourage applications from under-represented groups. So that we can successfully achieve these aims, while it is not mandatory we would encourage every applicant to complete the “Equal Opportunities Monitoring form” so that we can measure the effectiveness of our efforts. The Recruiting Manager does not have access to the Monitoring Information Sections of the application form at any stage of the process and the information provided will be kept entirely confidential.
For a confidential discussion on this role please contact:
Simon Green, Director or Michael Earnshaw, Director of Research, on +44 77 1905 59 71
Candidate adjustment
If you require any reasonable adjustments to be made as part of the recruitment process please can you advise us so that we can ensure this is accommodated.
Closing date: 18th January 2026
Stakeholder session: w/c 9th February 2026 - TBC
Final Interviews: w/c 9th February 2026 - TBC
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