Non-Executive Director; Clinical

Overview

At Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust, we provide acute hospital and community health services to more than half a million people living in the North Kirklees and Wakefield districts of West Yorkshire. We offer services from three main hospitals - Pinderfields (Wakefield), Dewsbury and Pontefract, and in the community at a range of settings such as health centres, clinics, GP surgeries, family centres and in people's own homes.

With approximately 10,000 staff and an income circa £860 million, we provide our services by working locally in partnership with a range of statutory and voluntary sector organisations.

We are seeking to appoint a Clinical Non-Executive Director to join our Board. You will bring senior strategic experience, ideally gained at Board level within a large and complex organisation, along with a strong record of clinical leadership. You will have experience of leading or supporting transformational change and be confident operating across complex partnerships and multi-stakeholder environments.

• Provide independent insight, constructive challenge and supportive scrutiny to the executive team.
• Help ensure our decisions are grounded in high standards of governance, quality and safety, and that the voices of patients, staff and communities remain central to how we develop and improve.

• Senior clinical leader, either a nurse, medic or AHP.
• Senior strategic experience, ideally gained at Board level within a large and complex organisation.
• Strong record of clinical leadership.
• Experience of leading or supporting transformational change.
• Confidence operating across complex partnerships and multi-stakeholder environments.

We warmly encourage applications from people from the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, to improve the diversity of our board, ensuring we are reflective of the populations we serve. Applicants should ideally live in or have connections with the Wakefield and North Kirklees area served by the Trust.

To find out more please click on Apply. For a confidential discussion about these posts, please contact Robin Staveley or Emily Smith on Emi or Eleanor Lawrence on eleanor.

• Fit and Proper Person Declaration - New.docx

Closing date: 9am Monday 30th March 2026

Final Panel:
Thursday 23rd April 2026

• Please submit an up to date copy of your CV, along with a Supporting Statement that addresses the criteria set out in the person specification, using examples to demonstrate how you meet the essential requirements.
• A completed fit and proper person form - the template can be downloaded from the same place as the job description.
• Detail any employment or education gaps.
• You should provide the names, positions, organisations, and contact details for your referees, which must be your line managers and include your current and most recent employer. The referees should cover at least two roles as the minimum.
  Please note, should you be appointed, you will be required to provide references covering your last 6 years of employment as per the new NHS Fit and Proper Person regulations. Where there have been gaps in employment, this six year period will be extended accordingly. Referees will only be contacted for those proceeding to the final stage - we will always gain your permission before we contact referees.
• Let us know any difficulty you may have with the indicative timetable.
• Check that your contact details are correct before you submit.

Once you have submitted your application, you will receive an automated email to confirm that you have applied. If you do not receive this email, please make contact with Gatenby Sanderson.