Non-Executive Member

Job summary

Non-Executive Members (NEMs) bring independent oversight, constructive challenge, and strategic leadership to the Board's work. They play a critical role in shaping strategy, supporting innovation and improvement, and ensuring the Board remains focused on delivering better outcomes for local people. They hold the executive team to account for delivering the ICBs objectives and ensure that decision-making reflects the needs and priorities of all communities across the ICBs footprint.

NEMs are members of the ICB Board and have full voting rights on all Board matters. NEMs also attend and chair the Committees of the Board.

To complement the knowledge and experience of the existing NEMs, we are keen to recruit a candidate with knowledge of the Norfolk/West Suffolk locality. The current members have a wealth of financial expertise amongst them, so financial expertise is not essential to this new role.

We welcome applications from individuals with diverse professional backgrounds and lived experiences who can bring independent thinking, strategic insight and a commitment to improving health and care outcomes.

• Please submit your full CV and expression of interest form via email to [email protected]

Main duties of the job

Working an expected commitment of approximately 2-3 days per month. Includes attendance of board meetings and committee meetings. The main duties of this job are:

Share corporate accountability with all Board members for the full range of ICB statutory duties, including exercising full voting rights at Board meetings.

Demonstrate commitment across the NHS Leadership Competency Framework domains (more details on the following page) by:

Providing oversight on strategic commissioning, financial stewardship, and performance.

Championing initiatives to improve population health outcomes and productivity and reduce health inequalities.

Promote transparency and engagement with patients, communities, and partners, and support the Chair to build an inclusive Board culture.

Provide constructive challenge to support effective decision-making and organisational improvement.

Foster strong relationships with system partners across the region.

About us

We manage an annual budget of £4.9billion to commission safe, highquality and accessible health services for 1.7million people living in Norfolk and Suffolk.

We work with hospitals, GP practices, dentists, pharmacies, community, mental health and ambulance services, alongside local councils and voluntary organisations, to improve care. We involve local communities in shaping decisions and use their insights to improve services. As a statutory NHS organisation, we are accountable to NHS England and the UK Government.

Our role is to ensure services meet current and future needs by setting local NHS strategy, allocating funding, maintaining quality and safety standards, improving access, reducing health inequalities and enabling joinedup care.

Norfolk and Suffolk include rural, coastal and deprived communities, with an olderthanaverage population. Around half of residents live in rural or coastal areas, where access can be harder, and about 219,000 people live in the most deprived areas, where early deaths are significantly higher. These factors shape our planning and focus on reducing inequalities.

Our vision is for people to live longer, healthier lives with access to safe, joinedup, patientcentred care. We prioritise improving healthy life expectancy, reducing inequalities and ensuring consistent access to highquality services.

We work across five local Places and partner with NHS providers, councils, the VCFSE sector and communities to deliver locally responsive care.