Committees

Purpose: Enhanced audit, governance, and risk oversight.

Key responsibilities:

• Financial statements integrity and external/internal audit coordination and oversight
• Board Assurance Framework development, monitoring and effectiveness review
• Risk management framework oversight across merged organisation (clinical, operational, financial)
• Counter-fraud oversight and investigation coordination
• Corporate governance framework development and compliance monitoring
• Health & safety governance and regulatory compliance oversight
• Information governance and data protection compliance assurance
• Cyber security oversight
• Partnership and collaborative arrangement governance oversight
• Regulatory inspection preparation and response coordination
• Internal control systems effectiveness and continuous improvement

Audit and Risk Committee Terms of Reference

Purpose: To ensure that charitable funds are managed in line with agreed policies on investment, disbursement and fundraising and compliance with statute and Charity Commission regulations.

Key responsibilities:

• Charitable funds

Charitable Funds Committee Terms of Reference

Purpose: Assurance in relation to education and training provision and research governance.

Key responsibilities:

• Education strategy implementation, performance monitoring and quality assurance
• Student recruitment, selection, experience and outcomes across all programmes
• University partnerships, academic relationships and collaborative agreements management
• Digital education development, transnational education and international partnerships
• Research and innovation strategy, governance and performance oversight
• Clinical training, professional development and continuing education coordination
• Education-related risk management and regulatory compliance (Ofsted, OFS, professional bodies)
• Revenue generation through education services and commercial training opportunities
• Academic governance, curriculum development and programme validation oversight
• Education estates, facilities and technology infrastructure oversight
• Student support services, equality and inclusion in education provision

Terms of Reference to follow. 

Purpose: Assurance in relation to the discharge of Trust functions under the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act.

Key responsibilities:

• Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act statutory compliance oversight and assurance
• Hospital Manager duties oversight, training and competency assurance
• Mental Health Tribunal processes, outcomes monitoring and learning implementation
• CQC Mental Health Act visit preparation, response and action plan monitoring
• Patient rights, detention procedures and safeguarding of detained patients
• Associate Hospital Manager recruitment, training, competency assessment and succession planning
• Service user involvement in mental health law matters and rights advocacy
• Mental health law policy development, review and implementation oversight
• Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) oversight and compliance assurance
• Interface management with courts, tribunals and statutory bodies
• Mental health law training programmes for clinical and non-clinical staff

Mental Health Law Committee Terms of Reference

Purpose: Assurance in relation to organisation development, workforce strategy and culture development.

Key responsibilities:

• People strategy development and workforce planning across integrated organisation
• Culture and organisational development
• Race Equality Strategy implementation and broader EDI strategy coordination
• Oversight WRES, WDES, and gender pay equality
• Staff health, wellbeing and occupational health oversight
• National People Plan delivery and NHS People Promise implementation
• Staff engagement, experience and retention strategy development
• Learning and development oversight (non-clinical education and management development)
• Workforce sustainability, succession planning and talent management
• Staff network engagement, consultation and empowerment
• Partnership working oversight with trade unions and professional bodies
• Recruitment, retention and workforce transformation strategy
• Leadership development and management capability building
• Freedom To Speak Up (with any quality themes referred to Quality and Safety Committee)

People, Culture and Inclusion Committee Terms of Reference

Purpose: Assurance in relation to financial and operational performance.

Key responsibilites:

• Financial performance management, forecasting and sustainability planning
• Capital programme oversight, business case approval and investment appraisal (following SFI thresholds)
• Operational performance monitoring across all clinical and support services
• Performance against national and local targets with remedial action planning
• Treasury management, investment strategy and financial risk management
• Provider collaborative contract performance and sub-contractor oversight
• Estates strategy, performance and capital development oversight
• Procurement strategy, efficiency programmes and value for money assurance
• Business planning, annual budget setting and medium-term financial planning
• Performance against national and local targets with remedial action planning

Performance, Finance and Investment Committee Terms of Reference

Purpose: Assurance in relation to quality, patient experience and clinical safety.

Key responsibilities:

• Quality strategy development, implementation and performance monitoring across all services
• Clinical governance oversight and clinical effectiveness assurance (including NICE compliance)
• Patient safety culture, incident management and serious incident oversight
• Patient and service user experience monitoring and improvement planning
• Regulatory compliance coordination
• Safeguarding oversight (adults, children and young people) with statutory compliance assurance)
• Clinical risk management and clinical audit programme oversight
• Infection prevention and control oversight and antimicrobial stewardship
• Clinical workforce development and competency assurance coordination
• Patient experience with respect to provider collaborative commissioned services

Quality and Safety Committee Terms of Reference 

Purpose: Responsible for executive appointments and remuneration.

Key responsibilities: 

• Executive Director appointments, selection processes and succession planning across merged organisation
• Remuneration framework development, annual reviews and market benchmarking
• Performance-related pay schemes design, implementation and annual assessment
• Termination payments, contractual arrangements and exit processes (that require Board approval)
• Market benchmarking, pay equity analysis and remuneration policy development
• EDI compliance in appointment processes and diverse recruitment strategy oversight
• Fit and Proper Person assessments and ongoing compliance monitoring
• Executive performance management framework and annual appraisal oversight
• Chief Executive appointment, performance management and succession planning
• Senior management remuneration principles and framework (below Board level)

Remuneration and Nominations Committee Terms of Reference

Purpose: Assurance in relation to strategy development and delivery, innovation, neighbourhood health and digital transformation.

Key responsibilities: 

• Trust strategy development
• Clinical and enabling strategy integration and alignment
• Business development, innovation and new service development
• Market analysis, competitive positioning and growth opportunities
• Partnership strategy and ICS alignment
• Digital strategy implementation, infrastructure performance
• Sustainability

Strategy & Innovation Committee Terms of Reference