Charity Trustee
About the trustee role
Have you got experience as a senior leader in health, hospitals or social care?
Would you like to use your experience to make a meaningful difference to unpaid carers across Surrey?
Action for Carers Surrey is seeking a new trustee to join our Board.
We are a dedicated, passionate charity determined to make a difference to young and adult carers across Surrey by providing advice, support and advocacy. With over 100,000 unpaid carers in Surrey, our work has never been more important.
Our vision is that every unpaid carer in Surrey is heard, valued and supported.
Who we’re looking for
Following the retirement of a trustee with extensive knowledge and experience of Surrey County Council’s political, social and healthcare landscape, we are particularly keen to appoint a trustee with comparable senior level expertise.
Most likely, this will have been obtained in an environment such as:
- Adult or children’s social care
- Hospital or NHS Trust leadership
- Community or primary care services
- Integrated Care Systems / partnerships
- Public health, safeguarding, or system-wide service design
It may have been gained whilst in employment or in an elected role, either within the public or voluntary/charity sector. Potentially you may have gained this knowledge and understanding as a carer and user of these services.
What you will bring
- Strategic thinking and sound judgement
- An understanding of governance, risk, and organisational leadership
- A commitment to improving outcomes for carers
- The ability to constructively challenge and support our senior leadership team
- Enthusiasm for contributing to a collaborative, purposeful Board
As a trustee, you will be collectively responsible for setting the charity’s strategy in line with its vision and for ensuring proper governance. Our board works in partnership with the CEO and senior leadership team as they deliver this strategy.
Your background in health or social care will be influential and help to shape the future of ACS at this critical time.
We are proud that a majority of our board have lived experience as an unpaid carer. Whilst not essential, any experience you may have currently or in the past, will strengthen the representation of carers on the board. Most vitally, you will have the opportunity to improve the lives of unpaid carers of all ages across Surrey.
Previous trustee directorship experience is not required.
In return
You will be joining a dynamic and engaged board of trustees which has a good working relationship with an experienced and dedicated CEO.
We have an induction programme which includes initial training and the opportunity to meet the trustees and key staff, and all our trustees are encouraged to undertake ongoing training.
Trustees have the opportunity to mentor staff and participate in occasional short term working groups which comprise a mix of trustees and staff.
This is a voluntary role, with reasonable expenses reimbursed.
Next steps
For an informal conversation with our chair, please contact: [email protected], or if you are ready to apply, please send your CV, along with a short outline (max one side of A4) describing why you are interested in joining our board, to the same address.
Join us and help ensure every carer receives the recognition, respect, and support they deserve.
To read more about the important work we do please visit: www.actionforcarers.org.uk
It is important that our trustee board is diverse in terms of professional backgrounds, skills and experiences and is also representative of communities that we serve. We welcome applications regardless of sex, gender, race, age, sexuality, belief or disability.
We are committed to safeguarding and protecting all children, young people and vulnerable adults. As part of this commitment we complete safer recruitment checks including enhanced child workforce DBS checks.
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