Associate Non-Executive Director

This is a two-year fixed tenure role, and a minimum of three days a month would be expected to undertake the role successfully. We operate using a hybrid model, with some meetings online but one to two days per month would be in person in Kent. There is a developmental component to the opportunity, and we will support the successful candidate to build their personal and professional capability and bridge knowledge gaps.

If you want to make a difference to mental health care in Kent and Medway, and gain experience of being a non-executive NHS board member, we have an exciting opportunity available.
We are looking for a talented person who can bring strategic vision, and robust oversight and challenge to key areas where we want to continuously improve. In particular:
+ Building trusted, enduring and innovative collaborations with local partners to improve services and outcomes for people
+ Involving patients, carers and communities to work alongside our staff to drive improvements in what we do
We invite applications from people with demonstrable senior experience in the third sector, community and/or social care organisations, or who have valuable life experience and personal motivation in advocating for those affected by mental ill health.
We recognise that diverse boards make the best decisions, and so we want our board to truly reflect the diversity of the people we serve.
Prior board experience is not essential. We provide training and development and will support the successful candidate to build their personal and professional capability., Working for our organisation
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.