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Appointment of Independent Members to Public Health Wales NHS Trust (Two posts)

Announced
Body: Welsh Government
Appointing Department: Welsh Government
Sector: Health and Social Care
Location: Cardiff
Skills required: Business / Commercial
Number of Vacancies: 2
Remuneration: £9,360 per annum
Time Requirements: 4 days per month

Campaign Timeline

  • Competition Launched

    03/07/2019

  • Closed for Applications

    02/08/2019 at 16:00

  • Panel Sift

    20/08/2019

  • Final Interview Date

    03/10/2019

  • Announcement

    08/07/2019

 

Assessment Panel

Vacancy Description

Independent Members will among other things:

 

  • Discharge effective governance of the organisation, in all its integrated forms. You will take an active part in discussions, providing your opinion and challenge, and support to the Board on key issues.
  • Contribute to the development and maintenance of a healthy culture across the organisation’s functions and services.
  • Contribute to the work of the Board based upon your independence, your past experience and knowledge, and your ability to stand back from the day to day operational management.
  • Contribute to and accept corporate decisions to ensure a joined up, robust and transparent decision-making process by the Board.
  • Be expected, in time, to fully understand the business through active involvement to enable the effective performance of the organisation.
  • Work closely with other public, private and voluntary organisations ensuring that the views of patients, carers and families are fully involved in helping to shape, develop and improve services.
  • Analyse and critically review complex information and contribute to sound decision-making.

Oversee the effective stewardship of resources, ensuring openness and accountability in the allocation and utilisation of resources.

Person Specification

Role 1 – We are recruiting two Independent Members, one of those roles is required to fulfil one or more of the following criteria:

 

  • a genuine desire to improve the health and wellbeing of the people of Wales
  • an appreciation of the wider determinants of health
  • experience of working with communities and community groups
  • experience of providing and/or ensuring quality services and informed advice. This need not necessarily be in a health environment. Role 2 – The second Independent Member role is required to fulfil the following criteria:
  • You will have commercial awareness and possess an entrepreneurial mindset, and will have repeatedly innovated to generate new thinking, services or products, specifically to engage, persuade or influence prospective consumers.
  • You will be cognisant of the principles of good governance and a strong corporate team player, you will have the ability to disrupt and challenge conventional thinking in a manner that stimulates positive discussions and decision making.

Desirable criteria

  • You will have ideally served in a non-executive or trustee role.

 

Additional Information

For further information regarding the selection process, please contact:

Public Appointments Team Publicappointments@gov.wales

 

For further information regarding the role of Independent Members, please contact:

 

Helen Bushell, Board Secretary and Head of Board Business Unit,

Public Health Wales

Tel: 07711 819665

Email: helen.bushell@wales.nhs.uk

 

For further information about Public Health Wales, you may wish to visit the organisation’s website: http://www.publichealthwales.wales.nhs.uk/

 

If you need any further assistance in applying for this role, please contact the Public Appointments Team on Publicappointments@gov.wales

 

For further information about Public Appointments in Wales, please visit www.gov.wales/publicappointments

 

 

How to Apply

To make an application please visit the Welsh Government public appointment website here https://cymru-wales.tal.net/vx/lang-en-GB/mobile-0/appcentre-3/brand-2/candidate/jobboard/vacancy/7/adv/

 

Once you have registered, you will be able to access the application form. To apply, you will need to submit the application form and two supporting documents. The first is a document answering the questions below, a ‘personal statement’. This document should be no more than two sides of A4. Your application may be rejected if you exceed this limit. The second document is a full, up to date curriculum vitae. The two documents should be uploaded to the “Reasons for applying” section of the online application form. There should be a 12pt minimum size of font on the supporting documents.

Personal Statement

 

Your personal statement is your opportunity to demonstrate how you meet each of the criteria as set out in the questions below. How you choose to present this information is up to you. However, you should aim to provide detailed examples that demonstrate how your knowledge and experience matches each of the criteria and which describe what your role was in achieving a specific result.

 

Please also note that your evidence will also be assessed against whether you have the necessary level of experience to effectively operate at Board level.

 

It will also benefit the selection panel if you can be clear which particular evidence you provide relates to which criteria. Providing separate paragraphs in relation to each criterion is common practice.

Finally, provide a brief paragraph that outlines why you applied for the role and what benefits would you be able to bring to the Public Health Wales Board.

 

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PHW - Information for Candidates -English
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