Job summary Join our trustee board or one of its sub-committees as we embark on our new strategic period If you want to make a difference to the lives of children and young people whose lives have been turned upside down by an acquired brain injury, wed love to hear from you. With a number of trustees nearing the end of their second terms, we're seeking fresh, visionary talent and expertise to join our board and its committees and to help increase our reach and impact. Were particularly looking for individuals: With board-level experience as a senior/ chief nurse to serve on our Clinical Governance & Safeguarding Committee With skills and experience suited to chairing our Commercial Committee With skills and experience suited to our Finance, Investments, and Resources Committee or Audit & Risk Committee Main duties of the job If you have less time to commit, consider applying as a co-opted committee member. If you have more time to give and want to make a broader contribution or to chair a committee, consider becoming a board trustee. The children and families we work alongside come from diverse backgrounds and we want to reflect that diversity through the people we hire, so that we can make an even greater impact. Whatever your background and whether or not you have served as a trustee before, we welcome all applications. Please click on the supporting link on the right hand side of the advert to find the full job descriptions and more information about The Children's Trust. About us About Us The Childrens Trust is the UKs leading charity for children with acquired brain injury, providing expert rehabilitation, education, therapy, and care at our national specialist centre in Tadworth, and to children and their families across the UK, via our Brain Injury Community Service. Boasting a beautiful 24-acre site in Surrey, we are located just outside of London, close to the M25 (accessible via Junction 8, A217 to Tadworth) and easily accessible via National Rail, by way of: Clapham Junction, Sutton, and Epsom. Date posted 05 February 2025 Pay scheme Other Salary £1 a year Contract Voluntary Working pattern Flexible working Reference number B0474-25-0033 Job locations The Childrens Trust Tadworth Court Tadworth Surrey KT20 5RU Job description Job responsibilities As a trustee and full board member, you will be responsible for: Ensuring TCT is carrying out its purpose for public benefit, maximising its reach and impact. Ensuring compliance with TCTs governing document, charity law and all other relevant regulations. Ensuring the board acts in the charitys best interests, exercising reasonable care and skill in its decision-making, managing TCTs resources responsibly and avoiding exposing the charitys assets or beneficiaries or reputation to undue risk. Contributing to the strategic development and planning process, including providing commercial acumen, insight into the external market and wider sector, or bringing experience of strategy development at similar organisations. Ensuring the organisational culture and values, governance arrangements, management and operational structures are fit for purpose, helping TCT achieve its strategic aims and objectives and minimise risk. Reviewing and approving budgets and business plans to ensure alignment with strategic objectives. Supporting the board fulfil the full range of its statutory and oversight responsibilities. This includes oversight of operational and financial performance, risk management, governance (corporate, clinical and educational), quality and regulatory compliance and in providing assurance on these matters to the board. Coaching and mentoring senior leadership or providing subject matter expertise on specific topics/ challenges. Participating and contributing to the activities of any working party groups the board or its committees may set up from time to time to lead specific projects and initiatives. Supporting fundraising events and initiatives including through personal networks. Ensuring the organisation has robust safeguarding arrangements in place. Job description Job responsibilities As a trustee and full board member, you will be responsible for: Ensuring TCT is carrying out its purpose for public benefit, maximising its reach and impact. Ensuring compliance with TCTs governing document, charity law and all other relevant regulations. Ensuring the board acts in the charitys best interests, exercising reasonable care and skill in its decision-making, managing TCTs resources responsibly and avoiding exposing the charitys assets or beneficiaries or reputation to undue risk. Contributing to the strategic development and planning process, including providing commercial acumen, insight into the external market and wider sector, or bringing experience of strategy development at similar organisations. Ensuring the organisational culture and values, governance arrangements, management and operational structures are fit for purpose, helping TCT achieve its strategic aims and objectives and minimise risk. Reviewing and approving budgets and business plans to ensure alignment with strategic objectives. Supporting the board fulfil the full range of its statutory and oversight responsibilities. This includes oversight of operational and financial performance, risk management, governance (corporate, clinical and educational), quality and regulatory compliance and in providing assurance on these matters to the board. Coaching and mentoring senior leadership or providing subject matter expertise on specific topics/ challenges. Participating and contributing to the activities of any working party groups the board or its committees may set up from time to time to lead specific projects and initiatives. Supporting fundraising events and initiatives including through personal networks. Ensuring the organisation has robust safeguarding arrangements in place. Person Specification Clinical Governance and Safeguarding Role Criteria Essential An active board/ committee member with a nursing background and experience of leading on patient safety, clinical governance, safeguarding and quality agendas. Familiar with and expertise in the CQC key lines of enquiry for children and young people (hospital and community frameworks). Significant safeguarding leadership experience, and familiar with current legislation. Knowledge and experience of paediatrics, in particular within specialist childrens services. Current registration with NMC, preferably in a child health discipline. Ability to contextualise own skills and experience to differing situations. Ability to influence transformation and clinical strategy development. Has a good grasp of current patient safety principles, such as Freedom to Speak up, models for continuous improvement, complaints procedures, PSIRF. Demonstrable knowledge and understanding of the impact of brain injury on the whole family. Experience in the oversight of patient and family experience initiatives. Desirable A senior/ chief nurse operating at board level or equivalent. Specific skills and experience. Qualifications Essential Our most important objective is to appoint individuals who are motivated and excited by the Charitys work and ambition and who display a strong affinity with the needs and experiences of its beneficiaries. As part of our Trustee succession planning, we would love to hear from you if you have any (not necessarily all) of the following skills and experience. Personal Qualities Essential Lived experience or proximate exposure to brain injury and neurodisability. A well-developed, continuous improvement mindset. An effective communicator who can express ideas clearly and concisely, listen actively to other views and engage stakeholders in a positive future vision. Able to build relationships with key stakeholders internally and externally. Able to absorb sometimes complex information and rationalise appropriately. Able to think laterally and independently in order to arrive at a pragmatic solution. Ability to commit sufficient time to help drive the charity forward through a period of change. Demonstrate high standards of ethical behaviour and avoid personal conflicts of interest. A clear commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion through either lived experience or allyship towards under-represented communities. Audit & Risk Role Criteria Essential strong track record of achievement in a senior financial leadership position (finance director or CFO level), with experience of charity governance and reporting; Financial management, planning and reporting, ideally in the charity sector; Strategy development and execution. Transformational change. External audit. Legal. Regulatory compliance (clinical and social care and/or SEND). Internal audit, enterprise risk management and assurance. Digital and cyber/ information security. Resilience and business continuity. Exposure to regulated. Commercial Committee Chair Criteria Essential strong track record of achievement in a senior leadership role. Strategy development and execution. Transformational change. Fundraising and philanthropy. Commissioning. Commercial and marketing (including digital) experience, in the private or charity sector. Regulatory compliance (fundraising, direct marketing, health and safety). Finance Investments and Resources Role Criteria Essential A strong track record of achievement in a senior financial leadership position (finance director or CFO level), with experience of charity governance and reporting. Financial management, planning and reporting, ideally in the charity or statutory sector. Development of integrated business performance management and impact reporting. Strategy development and execution. Transformational change. External Audit. Legal and regulatory compliance. Digital and Cyber/ Information Security. Resilience & Business Continuity. Person Specification Clinical Governance and Safeguarding Role Criteria Essential An active board/ committee member with a nursing background and experience of leading on patient safety, clinical governance, safeguarding and quality agendas. Familiar with and expertise in the CQC key lines of enquiry for children and young people (hospital and community frameworks). Significant safeguarding leadership experience, and familiar with current legislation. Knowledge and experience of paediatrics, in particular within specialist childrens services. Current registration with NMC, preferably in a child health discipline. Ability to contextualise own skills and experience to differing situations. Ability to influence transformation and clinical strategy development. Has a good grasp of current patient safety principles, such as Freedom to Speak up, models for continuous improvement, complaints procedures, PSIRF. Demonstrable knowledge and understanding of the impact of brain injury on the whole family. Experience in the oversight of patient and family experience initiatives. Desirable A senior/ chief nurse operating at board level or equivalent. Specific skills and experience. Qualifications Essential Our most important objective is to appoint individuals who are motivated and excited by the Charitys work and ambition and who display a strong affinity with the needs and experiences of its beneficiaries. As part of our Trustee succession planning, we would love to hear from you if you have any (not necessarily all) of the following skills and experience. Personal Qualities Essential Lived experience or proximate exposure to brain injury and neurodisability. A well-developed, continuous improvement mindset. An effective communicator who can express ideas clearly and concisely, listen actively to other views and engage stakeholders in a positive future vision. Able to build relationships with key stakeholders internally and externally. Able to absorb sometimes complex information and rationalise appropriately. Able to think laterally and independently in order to arrive at a pragmatic solution. Ability to commit sufficient time to help drive the charity forward through a period of change. Demonstrate high standards of ethical behaviour and avoid personal conflicts of interest. A clear commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion through either lived experience or allyship towards under-represented communities. Audit & Risk Role Criteria Essential strong track record of achievement in a senior financial leadership position (finance director or CFO level), with experience of charity governance and reporting; Financial management, planning and reporting, ideally in the charity sector; Strategy development and execution. Transformational change. External audit. Legal. Regulatory compliance (clinical and social care and/or SEND). Internal audit, enterprise risk management and assurance. Digital and cyber/ information security. Resilience and business continuity. Exposure to regulated. Commercial Committee Chair Criteria Essential strong track record of achievement in a senior leadership role. Strategy development and execution. Transformational change. Fundraising and philanthropy. Commissioning. Commercial and marketing (including digital) experience, in the private or charity sector. Regulatory compliance (fundraising, direct marketing, health and safety). Finance Investments and Resources Role Criteria Essential A strong track record of achievement in a senior financial leadership position (finance director or CFO level), with experience of charity governance and reporting. Financial management, planning and reporting, ideally in the charity or statutory sector. Development of integrated business performance management and impact reporting. Strategy development and execution. Transformational change. External Audit. Legal and regulatory compliance. Digital and Cyber/ Information Security. Resilience & Business Continuity. Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. Employer details Employer name The Children's Trust Address The Childrens Trust Tadworth Court Tadworth Surrey KT20 5RU Employer's website https://www.thechildrenstrust.org.uk/jobs (Opens in a new tab)