Are you passionate about health and social care and looking for a role that offers flexibility and growth? At North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board, we value work-life balance and offer a range of flexible working options, including hybrid working. Enjoy a supportive team environment, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional development.
Flexible Working Options: We understand the importance of work-life balance and offer a range of flexible working options, including part-time and job share. We encourage applicants to discuss their preferred working patterns during the interview process.
Hybrid Working: This role offers the opportunity for hybrid working, allowing you to split your time between our ICB offices and home. We aim to provide a supportive and adaptable working environment that meets the needs of our staff, service delivery and the patients within our Region.
- Competitive salary and pension scheme
- Opportunities for professional development and training
- Supportive team environment
- Enhanced work-life balance through flexible and hybrid working arrangements
- Employee Benefits – Salary Sacrifice Schemes such as Lease Cars, Home Electronics, Cycle to Work
Job overview
The North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board is looking for an experienced and highly organised Corporate Governance Officer.
This is an opportunity to contribute to sound decision-making across an organisation responsible for improving health and wellbeing, reducing inequalities and supporting health and care services for 3.1 million people.
Please note this post is only accepting applications from current staff of North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board and staff members of North of England Commissioning Support (NECS)
Main duties of the job
Working with the Senior Corporate Governance Manager and wider team, you will help deliver an expert, high-quality committee secretariat service for the Board and its committees. You will promote a positive governance culture and help ensure that the organisation complies with its governance framework, policies and relevant legislation.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Coordinating the committee secretariat function and supporting effective committee management. Providing advice and support to key committees and subcommittees (including accurate minute taking).
- Providing specialist governance and procedural advice to colleagues at all levels.
- Maintaining governance documents and committee registers of interests.
- Preparing clear, timely reports for the Board, committees and subcommittees.
- Supporting Chairs during committee meetings.
- Delivering corporate governance training.
- Identifying emerging risks and supporting governance improvement work.
- Managing and developing relevant support staff.
Working for our organisation
Our Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the largest in the country.
The ICB is responsible for ensuring that high quality and safe health services are accessible to all of our communities. It has a wide range of functions, including; promoting integration of health and care services, improving peoples health and well-being, reducing health inequalities.
With a £6.6 billion budget and a workforce of 170,000 people across the North East and North Cumbria. As well as strategic functions, ICB staff also work at place level with local health and wellbeing boards in each of our 14 local authority areas. These teams also work alongside our 67 primary care networks which are groups of local GP practices, social care teams and other community- based area providers.
The ICB works with our Provider Collaborative too, this includes the 11 NHS Foundation Trusts in the region, to deliver our shared priorities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be educated to degree level or have equivalent experience gained in a similar role. You will bring substantial experience in corporate governance and/or risk management, alongside excellent written and verbal communication skills.
You will be confident advising senior colleagues, interpreting guidance and procedural rules, producing high-quality reports and influencing others on complex issues. You will also be able to prioritise competing demands, work independently, meet changing deadlines and maintain close attention to detail.
Experience of managing staff, projects and budgets is essential. You should also be comfortable using Microsoft Office and relevant risk management systems. Some travel and flexibility around meeting times may be required.
Qualifications
- Educated to degree level or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level
- Experience of involvement in risk management issues
- Experience of advising and liaising with staff at all levels of the organisation, and externally to the organisation
- Experience of working with various teams and staff
- Experience in carrying out investigations and reviews, e.g. root cause analysis
- Experience of report writing and the ability to produce high quality comprehensive reports for formal meetings
- Extensive experience of risk management and/or corporate governance, maintaining an in-depth knowledge of priorities and reacting accordingly,
- Experience of managing projects and associated budget
The use of Artificial Intelligence: Whilst the ICB are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a riskto the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
UKVI Sponsorship: Please note that North East and North Cumbria ICB do nothold a UKVI sponsorship license. Therefore, we are unable to proceed with applications that require sponsorship.
Reasonable Adjustments: If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Fit & Proper Person Regulations: Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
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