Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust - Non Executive Director x 2

Closing Date: Tuesday 15^th September 2026

About the Organisation

At Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust, they 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. They 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, they provide their services by working locally in partnership with a range of statutory and voluntary sector organisations. 

About the roles

They are an improving Trust with a clear ambition: to deliver excellent patient experience every single time. At this challenging yet exciting moment, both for their organisation and for the wider health and care landscape, they are seeking to appoint two Non‑Executive Directors to join their Board.

They need diverse, inclusive and compassionate leaders who not only reflect the community they serve, and the staff employed by the Trust but have the leadership style and breadth of perspective to make good collective decisions. You will bring senior strategic experience, ideally gained at Board level within a large and complex organisation.  In both roles they are seeking individuals with experience of leading organisational transformation focussed on continuous quality improvement, with a track record of using data and innovation to improve organisational performance and outcomes. Ideally this experience will be within a health or comparable complex, regulated environment and you will be confident operating across complex partnerships and multi‑stakeholder environments, including community/patient engagement.

They are specifically looking for:

• Digital, Data and Technology background, with Digital Transformation leadership experience

• Experience as a CPO, HR Director or equivalent, leading the People/Workforce/OD agenda and supporting or delivering transformational change

As a Non‑Executive Director, you will provide independent insight, constructive challenge and supportive scrutiny to the executive team. You will help ensure their decisions are grounded in high standards of governance, quality and safety, and that the voices of patients, staff and communities remain central to how they develop and improve. Above all, they are seeking someone with a genuine commitment to people, a passion for improving health outcomes, and a strong belief in the value of excellent, equitable healthcare services. 

All candidates must be able to demonstrate:

·        Experience of operating at Board or equivalent senior leadership level in a complex organisation, whatever the sector

·        The ability to provide constructive challenge and independent judgement

·        Strong understanding of governance, risk and assurance

·        The ability to work collaboratively across organisational and system boundaries

·        A commitment to improving patient outcomes, reducing inequalities and promoting inclusion

·        Personal credibility, integrity and alignment with the Nolan Principles of Public Life

As a future NHS leader, the successful candidates will be able to demonstrate that they meet the NHS leadership competency framework for board members (please see the candidate information pack below for the six domains). The competency domains are aligned to Our NHS People Promise, Our Leadership Way and the Seven Principles of Public Life (Nolan Principles).

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

To apply

To find out more please click https://www.gatenbysanderson.com/job-search/?search=mid+yorkshire&action=search

For a confidential discussion about these posts, please contact Robin Staveley or Emily Smith on Emily.smith@gatenbysanderson.com or Joanna Riley on Joanna.Riley@gatenbysanderson.com

Timetable

Closing date on Tuesday 15^th September 2026

Stakeholder panel on Friday 9^th October

Interview panel on Monday 12^th October.

Other Information

Remuneration: £13,000 per annum

Time commitment: 4 to 5 days a month

Location: North Kirklees & Wakefield, West Yorkshire