Description

Are you passionate about improving the lives of people with a mental illness living in Croydon, and supporting them to have a voice in helping to shape services? We are an ambitious mental health service charity with passionate staff who want to achieve our strategic goals. We are looking for up three new Trustees, who have a determination to make a difference for our cause, to work alongside our existing board of trustees. As a new Trustees you will help to expand our knowledge and experiences and enable us to achieve our strategic goals, to help improve Croydon’s clinical mental health services, the treatment and care for people living with mental illness. Our Trustees provide invaluable guidance, leadership, and skills to support our work and we want to diversify our board. We welcome applications from all suitably experienced people and encourage applications from people who have an individual lived experience of mental illness, and those currently underrepresented on our Board, including people from ethnic minority backgrounds and LGBTQI+ communities.

Why these skills are required

Trustee person specification Each trustee must have: 1. integrity 2. a commitment to the organisation and its objectives 3. an understanding and acceptance of the legal duties, responsibilities and liabilities of trusteeship 4. a willingness to devote the necessary time and effort to their duties as a trustee 5. strategic vision 6. good, independent judgement 7. an ability to think creatively 8. willingness to speak their mind 9. an ability to work effectively as a member of a team The board of trustees will need skills and experience in the following areas: 1. setting targets, monitoring and evaluating performance and programmes in commercial and non-profit organisations 2. financial management 3. the type of work being done by the organisation 4. legal matters 5. fundraising 6. recruitment and personnel management, including a knowledge of employment legislation public relations 8. marketing 9. computers and information technology 10. campaigning 11. education and learning

What is in it for you

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