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Joint Chair – Stockport NHS FT and Tameside & Glossop IC NHS FT

The Joint Chair has a unique role in leading two NHS Foundation Trust Boards of Directors and Councils of Governors. The role combines the duty to lead effective governance, consistent with the Nolan principles and NHS values, whilst delivering a long-term vision and strategy for both organisations.

The Joint Chair will lead the two organisations enabling both Trusts to harness the strengths of each other, sharing innovation and opening up opportunities for greater collaboration for the benefit of the populations the Trusts serve. Fundamentally, the Joint Chair is responsible for the effective leadership of each Board and will be pivotal in creating the conditions necessary for the effectiveness of the two Boards, both collectively and individually.

Main duties of the job

Central to the Joint Chair’s role are the following key areas of responsibility:

• Provide highly effective, visible and authentic leadership of both Boards of Directors
• Work with the ICSs and the Boards of both organisations to develop a strategy to improve the health of the populations the Trusts serve by leading the organisations collectively and  holistically, acting as a catalyst for change and ensuring the services delivered are appropriately specified, supported and resourced
• Determine and implement sustainable and appropriate collaborative arrangements between the two organisations that can develop and evolve over time
• Develop and empower the executive leadership of the organisations to optimise collaboration and outcomes whilst holding to account for strategy delivery
• In their role as an ambassador, lead in developing relationships and partnership working.

The Joint Chair will be expected to continue to ensure that the Trusts are recognised as leading organisations where people participation, co-production, staff engagement and quality improvement are at the heart of what we do

Working for our organisation

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children. Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners. With an annual budget of around £290m and 4,150 staff support around a quarter of a million patients in Tameside, Glossop and from neighbouring Derbyshire.

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services for children and adults across Stockport and the High Peak, as well as community health services for Stockport, Tameside and Glossop. Stepping Hill Hospital treats over 500,000 patients per year and community health services are run across 24 sites in Stockport. With an annual budget of around £400m and 6,500 staff, the Trust supports around half a million patients a year across Stockport, as well as patients from neighbouring Cheshire East and the High Peak area of Derbyshire.

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.