Non-Executive Director recruitment

Welcome from Eileen Taylor, Chair

Thank you for your interest in joining our Board as a Non-Executive Director.

We are seeking innovative, transformational and motivated individuals with great vision, energy and drive to join us in making a sustainable and lasting difference to those we provide care for.

ELFT is developing as the first NHS Marmot Trust to improve the wider determinants of health. This has shaped our work as an anchor organisation in Bedfordshire, East London, and Luton leading to significant grant programmes to local community and voluntary sector.

Our strategy commits us to continuing to address issues of inequality for staff and those who use our services, and we have continued work towards being an anti-racist organisation. 2025 will see the beginning of the work to evaluate how far we have come in terms of our strategic objectives, and where we will be heading from 2026 with a refreshed strategy.

Our Trust is recognised as an exceptional organisation where people participation, co-production, clinical leadership, staff engagement and quality improvement are at the heart of what we do, leading the design, delivery and evaluation of services.

Our Trust was rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC for the third time in 2021, reflecting the way in which teams across the Trust work together and with those who use our services to continue to try and improve the quality of life together.

We are keen to hear from those with strategic finance or commercial experience, clinical experience especially in primary care, experience of improving population health outcomes and inequalities, digital experience, and connections to our local communities. We are especially excited to be developing our programme to measurably improve population health and wellbeing and by the opportunity to build upon the collaborative work that we accelerated with partners throughout our response to the pandemic.

You will bring personal commitment to the role and offer balance, challenge, support and focus to complex decision making both in our Trust and in the wider system. ELFT aims to be a leader in both Integrated Care Systems we are working in. This includes contributing to the overall system challenge of delivering balanced budgets.

We warmly welcome applications from members of our vibrant and diverse communities who bring an understanding of some of the challenges faced by our local populations, and are committed to developing a truly inclusive culture. This is an exciting time to be part of our journey.