Non-Executive Director

at  Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The NHS trust voted the best to work for anywhere in the Midlands by its own staff is looking to appoint two Non-Executive Directors and one Associate Non-Executive Director to help continue to lead its improvement journey.
Sherwood Forest Hospitals, which serves 350,000 patients in the Mid-Nottinghamshire area, employs more than 5,000 people and hosts more than 380 volunteers across its King’s Mill, Mansfield Community and Newark Hospital sites.
The Trust is rated ‘Outstanding’ for ‘Care’ by the Care Quality Commission, with its maternity services rated ‘Good’ and its
King’s Mill Hospital remaining the only ‘Outstanding’ NHS-run acute hospital anywhere in the Midlands.
Sherwood has also proudly been named as the best NHS Trust to work for anywhere in the East and West Midlands by the Trust’s own staff every year since 2018 in the NHS National Staff Survey.
Planned recruitment timeline

The Trust is looking to appoint to all three roles as soon as possible, with the intended timelines for recruitment set out below:

• Applications close: Monday 18 November 2024
• Issue of invitations to interview: Week commencing 2 December 2024
• Interviews: Thursday 12 and Friday 13 December 2024

Following some changes on its Board of Directors , the Trust is looking to appoint to three vital roles to help lead the Trust’s continuing improvement journey and help support the delivery of the Trust’s five-year Improving Lives strategy.
The Trust is looking to appoint to two Non-Executive Director roles advertised here. These roles are as follows:
One financially qualified Non-Executive Director with board-level strategic financial leadership experience, drawn from a track record working in complex highly regulated sector(s).
One clinically qualified Non-Executive Director with extensive experience in primary care, secondary care, public health or social care to join the Trust’s Quality Committee.
More information about these roles is available in the supporting documents for these vacancies.
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and we are the Health Service Journal’s Trust of the Year in 2020.
The Care Quality Commission rated King’s Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall we are rated Outstanding for care.
For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.
Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.
We would love you to join us.
To understand the role in more detail, please read the attached job pack or contact Sally Brook Shanahan, the Trust’s Director of Corporate Affairs, by emailing sally.brookshanahan@nhs.net or calling 01623 622 515, extension 352

• Applications close: Monday 18 November 2024
• Issue of invitations to interview: Week commencing 2 December 2024
• Interviews: Thursday 12 and Friday 13 December 202