Non-Executive Director – Devon Partnership NHS Trust

There is currently a vacancy for one Non-executive Director (NED) at Devon Partnership NHS Trust (DPT). This is an exceptional opportunity to share your talents and expertise to make a positive difference to the lives of people served by the Trust. We are passionate about promoting good mental health and wellbeing and we are looking for a new Non-executive Director to support our work.

Essential criteria

You will need to have a genuine commitment to patients and the promotion of excellent health care services. You will also have excellent demonstratable senior level experience as follows:

• Extensive experience of delivering transformational change at scale and pace in organisation of similar size and complexity as DPT where workforce “buy in” to change was a key factor in successful delivery

• Strong strategic capabilities

• Experience of operating in a highly regulated environment

• Must be capable of chairing sub-board meetings with credibility and effectiveness

• Must be able to demonstrate strong inter-personal skills/relationships

• Must have a demonstrable passion for mental health and learning disability services would be an advantage.

In addition, will particularly keen to hear from applicants with an interest and experience in inclusion and diversity and lived experience of mental health/learning disabilities services.

As a future NHS leader, the successful candidates will be able to demonstrate that they meet the NHS leadership competency framework for board members (please see the candidate information pack below for the six domains). The competency domains are aligned to Our NHS People Promise, Our Leadership Way and the Seven Principles of Public Life (Nolan Principles).

The best boards are those that reflect the workforce and communities they serve.  We particularly welcome applications from women, people from local black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, and people with disabilities, who we know are all under-represented in these important roles.

Application documents

• DPT NHS NED Info Pack

• Monitoring form S3719

Find out more

• For an initial conversation about this role, please contact our partners at Hunter Healthcare: Jenny Adrian, jadrian@hunter-healthcare.com, 07939 250 362

• NHS England – for general process enquiries contact Helen Barlow by emailing helen.barlow2@nhs.net