Job summary
- Main area
- Corporate Affairs
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 423-7369129
- Employer
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Airedale General Hospital
- Town
- Steeton
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Corporate Governance Membership Officer (Band 7)
NHS AfC: Band 7
Be part of our future landscape
At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future – a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust.
Please read the attached AI statement prior to submitting any application
Job overview
The Corporate Governance team is a small and newly formed team which works at pace. Our mission is to achieve and embed good governance across the Trust through providing professional governance advice, supporting regulatory compliance and enabling safe, effective and transparent decision making.
Main duties of the job
This will include ensuring the Trust’s Council of Governors are supported to function effectively and members are fully engaged with the Trust. The role will deliver a professional, confidential, and high quality administrative and logistical support service to the Trust’s Board of Directors, Board Committees, and Governor meetings, to include agenda production and management, timely production of papers, advanced minute-taking and follow-up of actions as required from the meetings.
As Corporate Governance and Membership Officer this role will be a key contact and support for Trust Governors and Members. The role will assist in the establishment, coordination, maintenance, and ongoing development of a range of corporate governance processes and systems, which ensure statutory and regulatory compliance.
Working for our organisation
We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:
- Cycle to Work
- Travel Scheme
- Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
- Onsite Nursery
- Buying and Selling Annual Leave
- Car Leasing
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Employee Health and Wellbeing
- Extensive Reward Scheme
- Counselling Service
- Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
- Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.
Our values:
We understand that it’s down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience – we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:
- Committed to Quality of Care
- Compassion
- Working together for patients
- Improving Lives
- Everyone Counts
- Respect and Dignity
Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details of this job vacancy, please see attached full job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Masters level qualification or equivalent professional relevant experience in corporate governance role
- Evidence of continued professional development in a relevant field
- Advanced IT and keyboard skills across all Microsoft Programmes
- Evidence of personal professional development.
Desirable criteria
- Recognised professional managerial qualification
- Membership of Institute of Chartered Secretaries or equivalent
- Experience of working in an NHS Foundation trust or local government democratic environment
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience and knowledge of regulatory matters, NHS compliance and corporate governance and experience of their application in an NHS or other public sector setting
- Knowledge of NHS Corporate Governance principles and best practice.
- Evidence of continued professional development in corporate governance or relevant field.
- Knowledge of good staff management principles and experience of managing junior staff (e.g. apprentice).
- Experience of providing comprehensive, high quality corporate governance support
Desirable criteria
- • Experience as a deputizing or acting as a Governance Manager or Democratic Manager, with election experience.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Mel Norbury
- Job title
- Executive Director of Corporate Affairs
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01535 294010
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