The Chair of Remuneration & Nomination Committee (RemNom Chair) will work in partnership with the CIC Chair, Non-Executive Directors, Company Secretary and the Deputy Director of People & Professionalism.

The role will oversee the business of the committee, which will strive to support the employees in achieving the aims of Livewell Southwest and will seek to optimise the relationship between the Board of Directors and the staff. Using specialist skills, the RemNom Chair will participate in conversations which facilitate excellent, well-rounded, and carefully considered strategic decision-making in relation to remuneration and nomination matters.

They will ensure that high standards of probity and governance prevail and that Livewell Southwest maintains an excellent reputation for operating to these standards. The RemNom Chair will also reflect these principles with their own conduct.

The Remuneration and Nomination Committee reports directly to the Livewell Southwest CIC Board. The Board of Directors is collectively responsible for the success of the company by directing and supervising its affairs. This includes responsibility to maintain financial viability, using resources effectively within appropriate financial controls, ensuring value for money and to deliver high standards of clinical governance, ensuring that all health standards are met.

This is not a company director position attendance at the CIC board will be infrequent and at the request of the CIC Chair.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities

• To oversee the activity of the committee ensuring fair, transparent and robust processes are adopted and maintained for all remuneration and nomination matters.
• Promote the vision, values and objectives of Livewell Southwest and take an active role in developing the organisations strategy in relation to remuneration.
• Promote the development of a listening organisation, attuned to the voice of people and carers using our services and staff.
• Work closely with colleagues in a supportive and constructively challenging manner, using specialist skills, judgement and advice.
• Oversea the recruitment process and appointment of the executive team and Non-Executive Directors through the Committee.
• Demonstrate agreed values and standards and ensure that Livewell Southwests obligations to its stakeholders and the wider community are understood and fairly balanced at all times.
• Engage positively and collaboratively in committee discussions.
• Ensure that the organisation values diversity in its workforce and demonstrates equality of opportunity in its treatment of staff and patients and in all aspects of its business.
• Bring independent judgement and experience based on commercial, financial and legal or governance expertise.

This role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route, please refer to the Direct Gov website for more information with regards to eligibility.

About us

Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise providing integrated health & social care services for people across Plymouth, South Hams & West Devon, as well as some specialist services for people living in parts of Devon & Cornwall. With teams in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, health & wellbeing hubs.

As an organisation with a strong social conscience, we always value being kind, respectful, inclusive, ambitious, responsible and collaborative. Transforming services to make them sustainable, ensuring that we value, support & empower each other.

We are committed to involving the people we care for, families & carers in everything that we do, working towards co-production where we can. Helping us to deliver the right care for people, in the right place & at the right time. By putting people at the centre of what we do, we ensure to support people to lead, healthy independent lives & be the very best at helping people to live well.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached role profile for full details of the Chair of Remuneration & Nomination Committee position.

Person Specification

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Commitment to Livewell Southwests values, principles, and aim as a CIC.
• Well respected and accustomed to a high level of accountability.
• Able to demonstrate strategic leadership skills and engender respect from others.
• A good listener, able to weigh up arguments and summarise for others.
• Work with board members, and others as appropriate to meet common goals and ensure they utilise their skills and expertise for the good of the Company.
• Politically astute, able to grasp relevant issues and understand the relationships between interested parties.
• Be independent in judgement and think creatively.
• Strong inter-personal skills, communication skills.
• A proven negotiator with an understanding of the wider implication of decisions and experience of alliances and partnership working.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of chairing a Remunerations / Nomination Committee (or similar) in an organisation of comparable size and complexity.
• Experience of senior management within an organisation with a significant budget and of comparable size and complexity.
• A proven track record of working within communities.
• An entrepreneurial approach with a successful reputation gained within their field.
• A portfolio of high-level governance and organisational skills including strategic planning, financial management, risk management, organisation performance management and service delivery and development in a regulated environment.
• Experience of, and a high level of commitment to, building and developing successful partnerships, alliances and working relationships with a range of stakeholders.
• Experience of either social enterprise or third sector organisations would also be desirable.
• In addition, some understanding of health service delivery will be considered desirable together with knowledge and understanding of the Plymouth community, its demographics and the health needs of the population.

Competencies

Essential

• Patient and community focus: high level of commitment to patients, service users, carers and the community and to tackling health inequalities in disadvantaged groups.
• Self-belief and drive: the motivation to inspire continuous improvement in services supporting health and well-being and drive organisational performance with the confidence to take on challenges.
• Intellectual flexibility: the ability to be creative, make sense of complexity and clarify it for other people.
• Strategic direction: the ability to develop a clear vision and enthuse others.
• Holding to account: the willingness to be held to account for Board performance and to manage relationships with other Board members.
• Team working: the ability to take on a personal leadership role and build a strong and effective team.
• Effective influencing and communication: a high level of ability to gain support and influence, as well as considerable political acumen.
• Change Management: ability to understand issues of change and its impact on staff and management.

Employer details

Employer name

Livewell Southwest

Address

200 Mount Gould Road

Mount Gould

Plymouth

Devon

PL4 7PY

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