Overview

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of community, mental health, and learning disability services for people across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We have over 13,000 staff who work from over 500 sites across the region, serving a population of around 2 million people with care available for every stage of their lives. We are a University Hospital Trust with a strong focus on research, as well as training and educating our future workforce.

Our aim is to work alongside the people we support, together with our health and care partners, to provide outstanding care that helps people live their best and healthiest lives. We were created in October 2024 by merging a range of providers and services from across the region. We have now co-produced our CARE values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence, and are in the process of producing our first organisational strategy.

Role

We are now looking for two dedicated and passionate leaders to join our board as Non-Executive Directors. For one post, we are looking for a finance professional from the private sector, with board level experience gained in commercial organisations of significant scale and complexity, and who ideally also has experience across estates, property, digital and IT portfolios. For the second post, we are looking for an individual from either a public health, voluntary sector, or a local authority background, with strong experience of partnerships working across organisational boundaries, to help the Trust focus on partnerships, communities, social justice and health inequalities.

Candidate contact

If you feel this could be you, and you feel that our CARE values align with your own, we would love to hear from you. Preference will be given to candidates that live within or have a strong connection to the area the Trust serves.

Confidential discussions

For a confidential discussion, please contact:

• Stephanie Crossland, Researcher
  E: stephanie.crossland@gatenbysanderson.com
  T: +44 (0) 113 268 0704
• Jim Canning, Delivery Consultant
  E: jim.canning@gatenbysanderson.com
  T: +44 (0) 7384 113 158
• Melanie Shearer, Partner
  E: melanie.shearer@gatenbysanderson.com
  T: +44 (0) 7785 616 548

Documents

• Fit and Proper Person Declaration - New.docx

Recruitment Timetable

• Closing date: 9am Thursday 18 September 2025
• Preliminary Interviews (via Teams with GatenbySanderson): Thursday 25 and Friday 26 September 2025
• Virtual Stakeholder Session (via Teams): Monday 13 October 2025
• Final Interview (face to face): Wednesday 15 October 2025

How to Apply

• 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 GatenbySanderson.