Job Description

We are now seeking a NED with a clinical background to join the Board at a pivotal time. This is a significant opportunity to contribute to the future direction of the Trust, support the continued strengthening of our governance, and help us deliver high quality care to the communities we serve. You will bring clinical expertise, an independent perspective and constructive challenge to our shared work, supporting the Trust to achieve its strategic goals and to sustain its journey of improvement.
Please follow this link for more details on the role and how to apply:Non-Executive Director (Clinical), South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust - Alumni Global
Main duties of the job
Non-Executive Directors have a key role in providing leadership inside the Trust and to be an external ambassador for the Trust. They make an important contribution to the effective running of the Trust through helping to develop strategy, providing effective oversight of the agreed Trust plan, and scrutinising performance. In carrying out that role it is important that Non-Executive Directors promote the highest standards of corporate governance. A Non-Executive Director should have the independence and the skills to offer constructive challenge and thorough scrutiny. The Board functions as a corporate decision-making body. Non-Executive Directors and Executive Directors are full and equal members. Their role as members of the Board of Directors is to consider the key strategic and managerial issues facing the Trust in carrying out its statutory and other functions in accordance with the legal requirements and the Trust Constitution.
About us
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) operates across more than 90 sites in South London, providing not only core mental services for their four local boroughs, but over 50 specialist mental health services nationwide.
Part of the South London Mental Health and Community Partnership, they work closely in partnership with a variety of organisations across London including South West, and South East London Integrated Care systems, Kings Health Partners and the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience.
We provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK andaim to be a leader in improving health and wellbeinglocally, nationally and globally.
We serve a local population of 1.3 million people in south London, as well as specialist services for children and adults across the UK and beyond.
Each year we provide inpatient care forover 5,000 people and treat more than 40,000 patients in the community in Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham and Croydon.
Details
Date posted
31 December 2025
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
16,500 a year Working pattern: 4 days a month
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
3 years
Working pattern
Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number
C9334-25-1347
Job locations
S L A M Nhs Foundation Trust
Monks Orchard Road
Beckenham
Kent
BR3 3BX
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key functions and responsibilities
set values and standards and ensure that the Trusts obligations to its patients, staff, members and the public are understood and met; provide entrepreneurial leadership within a framework of prudent and effective control arrangements which enable risk to be assessed and managed;
set strategic aims, ensure that the necessary financial and human resources are in place to meet objectives, and regularly review operational performance;
ensure that the Trust promotes equality and recognises diversity in its dealings with patients, communities ,staff and stakeholders;
develop a constructive relationship with the Council of Governors;
consult with the Council of Governors on the annual plan of the Trust to ensure that the local and wider health needs of the population served by the Trust are considered
provide support and constructive challenge to ensure that the proposed decisions of the Board are made on well-founded information and having undertaken appropriate due diligence, as well as being in line with the Trusts values;
support a positive culture throughout the foundation trust and adopt behaviours in the boardroom and elsewhere that exemplify the South London and Maudsley culture and values;
hold Executive directors to account for the effective management and delivery of key targets and strategic objectives;
support executives in their leadership of the Trust whilst monitoring their performance
commit to working to and encouraging within the Trust the highest standards of corporate and personal conduct as stated in the Nolan principles of standards of conduct in public life and uphold the highest ethical standards of integrity and probity;
Attend meetings of the Council of Governors, as well as attending relevant working groups when invited, ensuring they have the opportunity to hold the postholder to account
provide independent judgement on, and help to shape, strategy and vision and ensure the Executive Team develop and implement proposals for the Trusts strategy and vision;
chair and actively participate in relevant committees established by the Board of Directors to exercise delegated responsibility; Job description
Job responsibilities
Key functions and responsibilities
set values and standards and ensure that the Trusts obligations to its patients, staff, members and the public are understood and met; provide entrepreneurial leadership within a framework of prudent and effective control arrangements which enable risk to be assessed and managed;
set strategic aims, ensure that the necessary financial and human resources are in place to meet objectives, and regularly review operational performance;
ensure that the Trust promotes equality and recognises diversity in its dealings with patients, communities ,staff and stakeholders;
develop a constructive relationship with the Council of Governors;
consult with the Council of Governors on the annual plan of the Trust to ensure that the local and wider health needs of the population served by the Trust are considered
provide support and constructive challenge to ensure that the proposed decisions of the Board are made on well-founded information and having undertaken appropriate due diligence, as well as being in line with the Trusts values;
support a positive culture throughout the foundation trust and adopt behaviours in the boardroom and elsewhere that exemplify the South London and Maudsley culture and values;
hold Executive directors to account for the effective management and delivery of key targets and strategic objectives;
support executives in their leadership of the Trust whilst monitoring their performance
commit to working to and encouraging within the Trust the highest standards of corporate and personal conduct as stated in the Nolan principles of standards of conduct in public life and uphold the highest ethical standards of integrity and probity;
Attend meetings of the Council of Governors, as well as attending relevant working groups when invited, ensuring they have the opportunity to hold the postholder to account
provide independent judgement on, and help to shape, strategy and vision and ensure the Executive Team develop and implement proposals for the Trusts strategy and vision;
chair and actively participate in relevant committees established by the Board of Directors to exercise delegated responsibility;
Person Specification
Experience
Essential

• We are looking for the following skills and experience:
• Substantial senior or board level leadership experience, with a track record of
• clinical leadership gained ideally either in mental health or in other complex
• healthcare organisations, or in the voluntary or charity sectors
• recent, relevant and very senior management or board level experience, gained
• within a large and complex organisation
• evidence of providing effective strategic direction supported by knowledge
• of governance and how boards should add value
• previous experience of developing strategy, monitoring performance against key
• performance indicators, and offering informed and constructive challenge to
• executive directors
• evidence of leading positive change in relation to equality, diversity and inclusion.
• Evidence of delivering transformational change through people and culture or
• information systems and processes

Person Specification
Experience
Essential

• We are looking for the following skills and experience:
• Substantial senior or board level leadership experience, with a track record of
• clinical leadership gained ideally either in mental health or in other complex
• healthcare organisations, or in the voluntary or charity sectors
• recent, relevant and very senior management or board level experience, gained
• within a large and complex organisation
• evidence of providing effective strategic direction supported by knowledge
• of governance and how boards should add value
• previous experience of developing strategy, monitoring performance against key
• performance indicators, and offering informed and constructive challenge to
• executive directors
• evidence of leading positive change in relation to equality, diversity and inclusion.
• Evidence of delivering transformational change through people and culture or
• information systems and processes

Skills Required