At Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust, we provide acute hospital and community health services to more than half a million people living in the North Kirklees and Wakefield districts of West Yorkshire. We offer services from three main hospitals – Pinderfields (Wakefield), Dewsbury and Pontefract, and in the community at a range of settings such as health centres, clinics, GP surgeries, family centres and in people’s own homes. With more than 9,000 staff and an income circa £740 million, we provide our services by working locally in partnership with a range of statutory and voluntary sector organisations.

We are an improving Trust with an ambition to achieve excellent patient experience each and every time whilst helping to reduce health inequalities. Over the last few years, significant steps have been taken to improve the experience of both those who use our services and those who work within them, with dedicated staff being at the heart of our improvement journey. As an employer of more than 9,000 people and a major consumer of goods and services, we recognise our potential to make a significant positive contribution to the local economy and wellbeing of communities.

Essential criteria

You will need to have a genuine commitment to patients and the promotion of excellent health care services. You will ideally have senior strategic or Board level experience of:

• Leadership in an executive, non-executive or Trustee role in the public, voluntary or commercial sector
• Exposure to working in complex organisations and systems.

and

• Actively promoting greater equality for diverse social, economic and cultural groups. You will be able to demonstrate a depth of understanding of the communities of North Kirklees and      Wakefield, gained through experience of community engagement, or of leading or delivering services that affect the wider determinants of health and well-being, including but not limited    to health and social care, education, housing and the voluntary sector. You will need to have a genuine commitment to people and the promotion of excellent health care services.

OR

• Have expertise and knowledge of digital transformation and/or transformation using digital platforms to support data mining and analysis for driving large scale service change

The Trust’s communities have a rich background of cultural diversity and we are committed to ensuring the organisation reflects this at all levels. We want to encourage applications from people who have experience of engaging with the diverse social, economic and cultural groups served by the Trust, particularly the black, Asian and minority ethnic communities. This may have been gained through personal experience, links with the voluntary or not for profit sectors, community involvement or business initiatives.

Experience that has been gained within a complex, partnership or multi-stakeholder environment will be especially welcome.

As a NED, you are required to provide independence of thought and constructive challenge, as well as support to the executives.  You will need a genuine commitment to people and the promotion of excellent health care services.  We are open to all sectors, including private, voluntary and the wider public sector.  We welcome diverse and fresh insights; innovative and inclusive leaders who thrive with accountability and ambiguity. We warmly encourage applications from people from the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, to improve the diversity of our board, ensuring we are reflective of the populations we serve. Comfortable in challenging at board level in complex organisations, you will be politically astute, creative, and focused on quality.

Please refer to the candidate pack for more information about the trust and the role: MYTT NED candidate pack

Getting in touch

• We strongly recommend an informal and confidential discussion with Keith Ramsay, the Chair of the Trust.  This can be arranged via our partners at Gatenby Sanderson.  Please email emily.smith@gatenbysanderson.com or isha.hussain@gatenbysanderson.com
• GatenbySanderson are helping us to identify potential candidates. For a confidential discussion about these posts, please contact Robin Staveley or Emily Smith on 0113 205 6071 or emily.smith@gatenbysanderson.com
• We would like to invite you to join the Trust Chair Keith Ramsay and other senior colleagues at a webinar on Friday 3 May 2024, 16:00-17:00, where you can hear more about the Trust’s work and culture, its ambitions, and the role of a Non-Executive Director, and where we can answer your questions. If this is of interest, please email with your details to: sophie.pringle@gatenbysanderson.com
• NHS England – for general process enquiries contact Jane Hundley by emailing jane.hundley@nhs.net

Key dates

• Virtual open evening: Friday 3 May 2024, 16:00-17:00
• Closing date:  Friday 10 May 2024, 09:00
• Interview date: w/c 17 June 2024

To apply, please visit:-  https://www.gatenbysanderson.com/job/GSe110605

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