Volunteering

Trustee for Grief Encounter

Location: London (Hybrid)

Date Posted: 21/02/2023

Closing Date:

Trustee

We will be accepting expressions of interest from Tuesday 21st February 2023, we welcome applications from across the U.K.

Trustees to fulfil all legal duties and responsibilities: ensuring good governance and financial health

Position: Trustee

Location: Hybrid

Salary: The role of trustee is not accompanied by any financial remuneration, although reasonable expenses are reimbursed.

Hours: Minimum of 10 days per year

Contract: four-year term

Benefits: Expenses covered

Closing Date: 15th March 2023

About the Role

The main role of the Board is to determine the charity’s mission and purpose and guard the charity’s ethos and values.

Key responsibilities:

 

  • Act as an ambassador for the charity
  • Have a collective responsibility to help shape the strategic direction and provide leadership
  • To ensure they’re informed and confident to establish sound, effective open, and supportive relationships.
  • Ensure the charity operates within its charitable objectives
  • Supporting fundraising
  • Promoting clinical excellence and research-based practice

 

About You

You will have excellent communication and organisational skills, be able to work independently and be able to organise your own time.

You will have:

 

  • An understanding of a Trustee Board and the charity sector
  • Strategic vision, time, and commitment
  • Ability to help build and strengthen collaborative partnerships
  • Passionate and a strong team player
  • Understanding of legal duties, responsibilities, and liabilities of trusteeship
  • A strong personal commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion
  • Schools/education and/or experience working in a children’s charity
  • Children’s services/mental health services and knowledge of current legislation in this field
  • Experience in clinical counseling/or bereavement services
  • Knowledge of the new initiatives in the Health Service, such as Integrated Health Boards

 

About the Organisation

This amazing charity actively promotes equal opportunity for all and encourages applications from a wide range of candidates. To enable them to deliver their work to the best of their abilities and to live their values, they particularly welcome applications from diverse backgrounds, with a particular emphasis on people from Black, Asian minority ethnic backgrounds, women, the LGBTQ+ community, and disabled people, who are significantly under-represented on our Board. In addition, they particularly encourage applications from those with lived experience of childhood bereavement.

They aim to give every child and young person a voice for their grief and access to help when they need it most, they understand children grieve differently than adults. Their experienced team of qualified bereavement therapists is passionate about providing individually tailored support, to help work through the grieving process and find ways through what might be some of their darkest moments.

Additionally, the charity brings the struggles surrounding childhood grief to the forefront in schools, colleges, and workplaces, through raising awareness, education, and specialist training.

Application process

To apply, please send your CV and an expression of interest (max. 2 A4 pages), outlining your interest in the role and how you meet the person specification.

Other roles you may have experience with could include Clerk, Clerk to the Board, Clerk to the Trustee, Board Clerk, Board Secretary, Trustee Secretary, Admin, Administration, Administrator, Board Admin, Board Administration, Board Administrator, Trustee Admin, Trustee Administration, Trustee Administrator. Children’s Services, Clinical Therapist, Mental Health Services, and Youth Work

Please note: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.

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