Are you a ready to support the future shaping of NHS mental health, learning disabilities and community services in Gloucestershire?
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust seeks a highly experienced, confident, and forward-thinking corporate governance professional to join our senior leadership team as Director of Corporate Governance.
Main duties of the job
This is a high-profile position reporting directly to the Chief Executive. You will be the architect responsible for strengthening and shaping our entire corporate governance framework while playing a broader role too.
You will provide strategic leadership for our approach to communications and speaking up as well as overseeing crucial corporate compliance functions.
About us
We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.
Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:
* 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
* 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
* 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.
This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.
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