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Step One Charity - Chair and Trustees

Employer
Public Leaders Appointments
Location
Exeter, Devon
Salary
Unremunerated - Expenses Paid
Closing date
25 Oct 2024
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Job Details

Step One Charity has a long and distinguished history, dating back to 1937. We currently offer a comprehensive combination of mental health support, supported living, and employment opportunities to hundreds of people in Devon each year.

Today, Step One provides a range of support to enable people to manage their mental health and wellbeing and take positive steps forward to achieving their goals. We offer support through:

  • Recovery and rehabilitation at our independent hospital
  • Supported living housing
  • One-to-one support in the community
  • Self-management courses, workshops, peer support groups and activities

We have made many significant achievements over recent years and Step One has solid foundations, a clear 5-year strategy and a senior leadership team with the skills to deliver the next phase of our journey. It is an exciting time to join this increasingly successful charity.

 

The Roles

With the imminent departure of our esteemed Chair, we are leading the search for a new Chair and a number of new trustees to grow and strengthen our current Board. We have identified priority areas to complement our existing strengths.

In our Chair, we are seeking someone who ideally brings experience in Chairing in a similar capacity. This could be a charity or Public Sector Board, or someone who brings significant experience as a charity Trustee with Committee chair experience.

In addition, as our Chair or our new Trustees, you may bring experience in one (or more) of these areas:

  • Clinical background with an emphasis on mental health
  • NHS Commissioning
  • Finance and / or investment management
  • Legal
  • Property / housing acquisition or management (either commercial or domestic)
  • Commercial expertise and acumen

As well as ensuring further diversity on our Board, we are committed to appointing one or more trustees with lived experience of mental health challenges, learning disabilities and neurodiversity.

The role of a trustee is an invaluable and important role.  Our Board is the ultimate governance body for Step One, being responsible for our operations, finances and strategy. Our Chair and trustees provide strategic leadership and direction of the charity and ensure that we have appropriate financial and good governance checks and balances in place.

Trustees are generous with their support and willingly offer their skills, knowledge, expertise, and diversity of thought to ensure Step One, working in partnership with our Senior Leadership Team, goes from strength to strength. They also represent the charity externally, assisting in raising our profile and help to build relationships with key stakeholders.

If you are inspired by what you read about us and can offer the skills and experience required to strengthen our Board, we would be pleased to hear from you!

 

How to Apply

If you are interested in this opportunity, please download the attached brief for more information. We encourage confidential conversations with our recruitment partner Anna Jay, MD of Public Leaders Appointments in advance of your application. For full details and instructions on how to apply, please download a copy of the full job brief.

Closing Date: Midday, Friday October 25, 2024

Interviews: First and second weeks of November

 

Company

Public Leaders Appointments offers Executive Recruitment and Interim Management consultancy solutions, predominantly across the public and not-for-profit sectors. We provide bespoke services to support organisational change and growth and solutions for your staffing challenges.

Our expertise lies in helping organisations identify, source and secure the talent they need in order to develop and evolve. With an outstanding track record in identifying Chairs, Trustees, NED’s, Chief Executives, Executive Directors and Senior Managers across all functional specialisms, we can help you grow and strengthen your leadership teams, ensuring that your organisation has the right people in place to prosper into the future

Company info
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Telephone
07904236348
Location
23 St John's Road
Newquay
Cornwall
TR7 1JT
GB

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