Medical Trustee

Trustees of The Childrens Trust play a critical role in the leadership of our Charity, ensuring that it achieves its objects to the benefit of children, young people, and their families. With one of our trustee members of the Quality, Safeguarding, Experience & Assurance Committee (QSEAC) having recently resigned from the board, we are looking to appoint a new trustee with recent board level experience as a strategic medical or clinical leader, ideally with senior paediatric experience. This is an exciting time to join the Trustee Board as we roll-out our new strategy to ensure the Charity continues to thrive into the future, fulfilling its duties and responsibilities to its beneficiaries. Our most important objective is to appoint trustees 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. We are particularly looking for someone who can bring strategic medical leadership, strong clinical governance insight, and an understanding of how specialist services operate and develop within the NHS. The successful candidate would be a full Board member and member of QSEAC. At the heart of our new strategy, is our role as a provider of clinical services working increasingly closely as part of a wider local, regional, and national healthcare systems. Providing safe and effective care for all children and young people at The Childrens Trust is and will continue to be our number one priority. We continue to further strengthen our clinical governance system and processes in line with national policy. We would like to hear from you if you are, or have been, a senior medical or clinical leader with experience in paediatrics or a closely related specialty and can help the Board provide strategic oversight of quality, safety, service development, and clinical governance. Experience of paediatric neurodisability, acquired brain injury, rehabilitation pathways, specialised commissioning, or service growth would be welcome, but is not essential. Key responsibilities As a trustee and full board member, you will be responsible for: Ensuring The Childrens Trust (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 interest, exercising reasonable care and skill in its decision making, managing TCTs resources responsibility, 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 brining 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 to 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.