Eligibility

To be appointed Non-Executive Director, candidates must be a member of the Foundation Trust.  Eligibility and criteria for disqualification as a member or as a director are shown below:

All non-executive directors must be members of the Trust.

Eligibility to become a Non-Executive Director

A person may be appointed as Chair or Non-Executive Director only if they are a member of the Public Constituency. The Public Constituency is comprised of the following areas:

• Salford
• Bury
• Oldham
• Rochdale
• Rest of England and Wales

Criteria for Disqualification

A person may not become or continue as a director of the Trust if:

• they are a governor of an NHS foundation trust;
• they are a Healthwatch member;
• they are the spouse, partner, parent or child of a member of the Board of Directors of the Foundation Trust;
• they are a member of a local authority’s Scrutiny Committee covering health matters; 
• they have been adjudged bankrupt or their estate has been sequestrated and in either case they have not been discharged; 
• they are a person in relation to whom a moratorium period under a debt relief order applies (under Part 7A of the Insolvency Act 1986),
• they have made a composition or arrangement with, or granted a trust deed for, their creditors and have not been discharged in respect of it;
• they have within the preceding five years been convicted in the British Islands or elsewhere of any offence, and a sentence of imprisonment (whether suspended or not) for a period of three months or more (without the option of a fine) was imposed;
• they are the subject of a disqualification order made under the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986;
• in the case of a non-executive Director, they are no longer a member of one of the public constituencies or exercising functions for University of Manchester or University of Salford;
• they are a person whose tenure of office as a Chairman or as a member or director of a health service body has been terminated on the grounds that their appointment is not in the interests of the health service, for non-attendance at meetings, or for non-disclosure of a pecuniary interest;
• they have within the preceding two years been dismissed, otherwise than by reason of redundancy, from any paid employment with a health service body;
• in the case of a non-executive Director, they have refused without reasonable cause to fulfil any training requirement established by the Board of Directors;
• they have refused to sign and deliver to the Secretary a statement in the form required by the Board of Directors confirming acceptance of the code of conduct for Directors.