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The Chief Executive holds overall responsibility for the leadership and management of the Foundation Trust. As Accountable Officer, the post holder is accountable for the delivery of safe and high-quality services by the Foundation Trust and ensuring achievement of its performance targets, financial obligations and statutory duties. The Chief Executive is also responsible for the strategic direction, leadership culture and people development within the organisation.

 The Chief Executive also plays an important leadership role in the wider health and care community across Fylde coast, as we work increasingly closely together as part of the Fylde Coast Executive with the aim of delivering whole-system reform centred around integrated care.

 The Chief Executive represents the Foundation Trust in a variety of regional and national forums.

 DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

 Strategic Management

·        To take overall executive responsibility for the delivery of safe, high quality services to ensure the best care and experience for patients in an appropriate environment.

• To ensure that the Foundation Trust meets its statutory duties and responsibilities and to ensure that its functions are carried out in a way that demonstrates financial viability and proper stewardship of public money and assets to Parliament.
• To drive a culture of staff engagement and continuous improvement, drawing on international best practice.
• To ensure that patient services and all dealings with staff and stakeholders are developed and conducted with equality and inclusion at the fore.
• To take account of all national policy developments affecting the service delivery of the Foundation Trust.
• Lead and deliver transformational projects for culture, service redesign and quality improvement, estates and IT and ensure the Trust delivers the Workforce and Quality strategies.
• With other members of the Fylde Coast Executive, to ensure effective collaboration and integration and to support the development of an Integrated Care System.

Vision and Leadership

• To lead and develop the Executive Team to enable them to deliver the strategic priorities of the Foundation Trust.
• To act as a champion for inclusion and diversity, both as an employer and a provider of services, ensuring that effective policies and procedures are in place and actively promoted.
• Working with the Chair, to ensure that the Board of Directors effectively leads and drives the development of strategies and policies which will result in the achievement of high quality, integrated care pathways, consistent with local commissioner and national policy, standards and targets requirements.
• To review and evaluate the external environment for present and future strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats and to use this analysis to inform the production of the Foundation Trust’s annual plan; ensuring that the plan is designed to achieve the Foundation Trust’s vision and strategy and optimises the use of the workforce and available financial resources.
• To promote a culture that encourages the use of initiative, individual and team responsibility and open communications, ensuring that an appropriate leadership and management structure is in place to facilitate ward-to-board visibility of successes, emerging risks and performance concerns.
• To promote a culture that demonstrates visibility to staff from amongst the Executive Team in all areas of the Trust.
• To maintain effective relationships with colleagues, staff and external partners to support the delivery of the Foundation Trust’s strategic objectives.
• To maintain and develop effective relationships with external stakeholders and with local and wider professional communities.
• To contribute to the development of a positive public image of the Foundation Trust by communicating the Trust’s strategy, plans, successes and constraints.
• To promote the work of the Freedom to Speak Up Guardian and Guardian of Safe Working so that staff are confident to raise any concerns.

Partnerships

• To work collaboratively with other Fylde Coast Executive members to develop an Integrated Care System and enable partner organisations to fulfil their statutory duties.
• To work collectively across Lancashire, the North West region and nationally where appropriate for the benefit of the Foundation Trust and its patients and communities.
• To lead the Foundation Trust in the development of effective partnership working with patients, service users and carer, clinicians, NHS Improvement, commissioners, local authorities, not-for-profit, advocacy and voluntary organisations.
• To foster and develop strong multi-agency and multi-disciplinary team working arrangements between professions and across agencies.
• To promote and maintain good working relationships with the recognised trade unions, professional bodies and staff representatives.

Corporate Governance 

• With the Chair, to continue the development of good working relationships between all members of the Board of Directors, ensuring a unitary board approach to governance.
• With the Chair, to ensure the continuation of good working relationships between the Board of Directors and the Council of Governors, ensuring an effective flow of information between the two groups and facilitating the effective discharge of the statutory duties of the respective bodies.
• In conjunction with the Chair, to monitor the effective operation of the Board of Directors to ensure that the Foundation Trust meets its corporate and clinical governance requirements, its regulatory requirements and all applicable statutory duties.
• To ensure that the Foundation Trust’s annual report and accounts (including the Quality Account) is submitted to NHS Improvement and laid before Parliament in advance of the stipulated deadlines and that the Foundation Trust holds an Annual Members’ Meeting in accordance with its constitution each year.
• To understand, assess and manage strategic, reputational and operational risk, taking mitigating actions as appropriate to reduce risk.
• To ensure the highest standards of conduct and probity are achieved.
• To ensure that the Foundation Trust is clear about risk appetite and that it is managing its resources and activities accordingly.
• To ensure that health and safety policies and procedures reflect current best practice and are discharged effectively by all staff.

Data Quality and Information Governance 

• To be aware of the effectiveness of information risk management across the Trust and to lead on information governance and risk assessment management within own areas of responsibility.
• Understand how the strategic business goals of the Trust and how other NHS organisations’ business goals may be impacted by information risks, and how those risks may be managed.

General 

• To contribute actively to the debates and discussions of the Board of Directors, ensuring the provision of appropriate and timely information.
• To work collectively with other directors to model cabinet behaviour and ensure alignment of priorities and delivery of key performance objectives.
• To use any specialist knowledge and understanding of healthcare generally to assist colleagues and the Board to consider strategic issues and appropriate decisions.
• To adhere to the standards laid down in current guidance for NHS senior managers and at all times acting in a manner that reflects and promotes the views of the Foundation Trust.
• To participate in the executive on-call rota.
• This post is subject to the provisions of the NHS Code of Conduct and Duty of Candour.