Non-Executive Director

Job overview

Non-Executive Director – Audit Chair

The Non-Executive Director will work with the Chair and other Executive and Non-Executive colleagues as a voting member of the Board. You will also work in partnership with the Council of Governors who are charged with holding the Non-Executive Directors to account for the performance of the Board of Directors.

You will need to have a genuine commitment to patients and the delivery of high quality care to all service users. You will be someone who is passionate about representing the needs of the diverse communities across the Black Country.

we are seeking a person with:

• Governance, Financial Expertise and Audit Committee Leadership
• Strategic Leadership Experience .
• Commitment to Public Service Values
• Independence and Constructive Challenge
• Demonstrable experience in mergers, acquisitions, or complex commercial transactions, with the ability to provide strategic insight and challenge in relation to organisational partnerships, structural change, and commercial development.

Closing Date: Friday 23 October 2026

Interview Date: Friday 6 November 2026 (face to face – must be available for this date)

Stakeholder Panels: Friday 6 November 2026 (face to face – must be available for this date)

Salary: £13,000 per annum

Main duties of the job

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Commit to working to, and encouraging within the Trust, the highest standards of probity, integrity and governance and contribute to ensuring that the Trust’s internal governance arrangements conform with best practice and statutory requirements;
• Provide independent judgement and advice on issues of strategy, vision, performance, resources and standards of conduct and constructively challenge, influence and help the Executive Team develop proposals on such strategies;
• in accordance with board procedure, monitor the performance and conduct of management in meeting agreed goals and objectives and statutory responsibilities, including the preparation of annual reports and annual accounts, including the quality reports and accounts, and other statutory duties;
• obtain comfort that financial information is accurate and that financial controls and risk management systems are robust and defensible;
• obtain comfort that information about the quality and safety of services is accurate and that the associated systems are robust and defensible;
• contribute to the determination of appropriate levels of remuneration for Executive Directors and other very senior managers;
• participate in and if required chair the Trust committees, as well as take an active part in other committees established by the Board of Directors to exercise delegated responsibility;
• as a member of board committees, appoint, remove, support, encourage and where appropriate ‘mentor’ senior executives;
• bring independent judgement and experience based on expertise from outside the Trust and apply this to the benefit of the Trust, its stakeholders and its wider community;
• assist fellow Directors in setting the Trust’s strategic aims, ensuring that the necessary financial, human and other resources are in place for the Trust to meet its objectives, and that performance is effectively monitored and reviewed;
• assist fellow Directors in providing entrepreneurial leadership to the Trust within a framework of prudent and effective controls, which enable risk to be assessed and managed;
• assist fellow Directors in setting the Trust’s values and standards and ensure its obligations to its stakeholders and the wider community are understood and fairly balanced at all times;
• engage positively and collaboratively in board discussion of agenda items and act as an ambassador for the Trust in engagement with stakeholders including the local community, dealing with the media when appropriate;

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.