Become our new Chair
Welcome
Dear Candidate
Thank you for your interest in the role of Chair at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust (ANHSFT).
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust is an award-winning NHS hospital and community services trust providing high quality, personalised, acute, elective, specialist and community care for a population of over 200,000 people from a widespread area covering 700 square miles within Yorkshire and Lancashire. Our catchment population stretches as far as the Yorkshire Dales and the National Park in North Yorkshire, reaching areas of North Bradford and Guiseley in West Yorkshire and extending into Colne and Pendle in the East of Lancashire.
Our local population is very supportive of the Trust and our level of community engagement is a testament to this. Our communities and location strongly shape the priorities of the Trust.
We employ over 3,000 staff and have over 350 committed volunteers. On an annual basis we treat over 32,000 Inpatients, 31,000 Non-Elective patients and 155,000 Outpatients. Our Emergency Department sees approximately 70,000 patients and over 2,000 babies are born at Airedale Hospital each year.
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We provide services from our main hospital site, Airedale Hospital, and at other locations across the community – such as Castleberg Hospital near Settle, Coronation Hospital in Ilkley and Skipton Hospital.
How hospitals operate is changing. More than ever, hospitals and other health providers/commissioners are urged to come together and support each other to provide everybody with efficient, high-quality healthcare. Our new Chair will play an important outward facing role with our local communities and system partners to support this collaborative approach. They will also provide excellent support and challenge to the organisation through the successful leadership of the Board of Directors and the Council of Governors to ensure the Trust continues its journey of improvement and puts quality and safety at the heart of its decisions.
We have a once in a generation chance to transform our hospital through the New Hospital Programme and we are looking to appoint an outstanding individual to lead the Trust through this exciting development, ideally someone who has had previous experience in the NHS and leading an organisation as Chair.
A strong affiliation with the Bradford District and Craven Place and the West Yorkshire System is desirable but not a prerequisite though the new Chair will need to share our passion for the area and be a member of one of our public constituencies.
We believe that the best Boards represent the workplace population and the communities the Trust serves and we would love to hear from candidates from a diverse and wide range of backgrounds. Appointments are made on merit and we value and promote diversity and inclusion and are committed to equality of opportunity for all.
Team health and wellbeing and the principles of kind leadership in our ‘ways of working’ are amongst our top priorities and our new Chair will play a key role in modelling and nurturing this culture. How colleagues are treated significantly influences care provision and the new Chair must embody qualities that are in line with those of our Trust values. The ability to evidence inclusion, support and kindness are essential for a successful application.
We hope you will consider applying and thank you for your interest in the role.
Yours faithfully
