Corporate Governance and Engagement Officer

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Group was created by bringing together staff and services from two NHS Trusts, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of over 19,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond – come and take your place with us.

Job overview

We are looking for a talented and focused individual to join the Corporate Governance Team as Corporate Governance and Engagement Officer, working to the Deputy Director of Corporate Services/Deputy Group Secretary. This role is ideal for someone keen to get on; has energy and enthusiasm; thrives in a complex and challenging environment; and wishes to benefit from the opportunity to understand how a large and complex NHS organisation is successfully operated and developed for the future

You will be educated to diploma level or equivalent and be able to demonstrate an ability to engage positively with colleagues from across the organisation, foundation trust members, governors, patients and members of the public. Working closely with the Deputy Director of Corporate Services/Deputy Group Secretary, you will contribute to the on-going development of standardised, high-quality corporate governance arrangements. You will develop and maintain internal and outward-facing information, specifically with respect to the Board of Directors, Council of Governors and FT membership, and act as the key point of contact for the board and committee papers’ portal and all relevant internal on-line systems. Your work will also involve supporting effective engagement arrangements that may include support with Annual Members’ Meeting, ‘Your Health Matters’ events, Open Days, Governor bulletins and elections, and utilising the Patient and Public Engagement Portal.

Main duties of the job

As an integral part of the Corporate Governance team you will support and respond to corporate priorities, provide high-quality administrative support to sub-Board committee meetings, produce high-quality minutes of meetings and act as the key point of contact for the board and committee papers’ portal.

You will have the ability to engage positively with colleagues from across the organisation, foundation trust members, governors, patients and members of the public. You will develop and maintain internal and outward-facing information. Your work will also involve supporting effective engagement arrangements that may include support with Annual Members’ Meeting, ‘Your Health Matters’ events, Open Days, Governor bulletins and elections, and utilising the Patient and Public Engagement Portal.

Working for our organisation

Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust is the first, and thus far only, acute and community trust in the country to be rated as outstanding by the Care Quality Commission on two consecutive occasions. Salford Royal and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust have together created the Northern Care Alliance (NCA), one of the largest NHS healthcare organisations under an NHS Group arrangement of hospital and community-based health and care services.

The NCA provides benefits of scale and delivers this locally through hospital sites and local health and care services. With a turnover of c. £1.4bn and c. 20,000 staff, major specialist, acute, community and social care services are provided by four Care Organisations established at Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale, each responsible for delivering safe, high quality and reliable care. You will work within an ambitious and high-performing organisation, committed to be pioneering, connected, trusted, at scale, highly reliable and evidence based.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post-holder will:

• work closely with the Deputy Director of Corporate Services/Deputy Group Secretary and Head of Corporate Governance, to ensure the on-going development of standardised corporate governance arrangements, that reflect best practice and maintain compliance with statutory requirements.
• work effectively as an integral member of the Corporate Governance team, supporting and responding to corporate priorities, providing high-quality administrative support to sub-Board committee meetings, producing high-quality minutes of meetings and acting as the key point of contact for the board and committee papers’ portal
• maintain and improve information published on internal and outward-facing webpages, specifically with respect to the Board of Directors, Council of Governors and FT membership.
• support preparation for Council of Governors’ meetings or workshops, as required.
• maintain an excellent working knowledge and ensure effective utilisation of all relevant internal on-line systems on behalf of the department.
• provide support, as required, to the facilitation of effective engagement arrangements. This may include the provision of support to the Annual Members’ Meeting, ‘Your Health Matters’ events, open days, Governor newsletter, bulletins and elections, Patient and Public Engagement Portal.
• maintain a strong and effective approach to high-quality customer service and responsiveness between the corporate governance department and other colleagues, departments, foundation trust members, patients and members of the public, governors and colleagues within key partner organisations.
• To act as the key point of contact regarding financial systems for the department ensuring all invoicing, and supplier relations are maintained to the highest standard.