Honorary Treasurer and Trustee

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Are you an experienced leader with a finance background and the passion for making a difference? Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care is seeking a Trustee and Honorary Treasurer to help guide the charity's strategy including a focus on financial responsibilities. This voluntary role is ideal for someone with strong knowledge of accounting, audit and risk management who can balance strategic thinking with attention to detail. If you are a confident communicator with extensive financial experience and a desire to use those skills to support a local charity, we'd love to hear from you. Your expertise, insight and judgment could make a real difference to the lives of the local people we support.

Role requirements

• Extensive senior financial leadership experience
• Strong knowledge of accounting standards, audit and risk management
• Understanding of best practice in governance
• Exceptional communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills
• Strategic thinker with sound independent judgement
• Commitment to the mission, vision and values of Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care

Our trustees are responsible for ensuring the Hospice has a clear vision, mission and strategy and is focused on delivering:

• Excellent standards of care
• Financial security
• Governance and compliance

You will read papers prepared by the Executive Board and Leadership Team and, at committee meetings, use your skills and knowledge to challenge and discuss how the Hospice operates to ensure we meet our strategic aims.

Person specification

• Extensive senior financial leadership experience.
• Strong knowledge of accounting standards, audit, risk management, (ideally) charity finance and best practice in governance.
• Exceptional communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills.
• Strategic thinker, capable of balancing detail with the bigger picture, and exercising sound independent judgement.
• Deep commitment to the mission, vision and values of the charity, including principles of equality, diversity and inclusion.

Time commitment

This appointment requires a commitment to Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care to attend quarterly early evening meetings of the Board of Trustees and serve on at least one Board committee (Risk & Audit), with additional meetings as required.

In addition to attending meetings, trustees will need to make time to read and evaluate papers. All our trustees are encouraged to actively participate and engage in external events and networking to represent and promote the charity, where requested.

Appointments are usually for a term of three years with the possibility of two further three-year extensions by mutual agreement up to a maximum term of nine years.

On successful appointment, the following will be required

• Volunteer application form and appropriate references
• Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check
• Online course in data security, information governance and other essential learning
• Legal documentation required to become a charity trustee

What training we will provide for you

Our Chair of Trustees and the rest of the Board will guide and support you as you take on this important role.

What you will get out of volunteering for us

• The opportunity to contribute to the leadership and oversight of the Hospice
• The opportunity to give back to your community
• A chance to add to your skill set and your CV
• A fulfilling senior-level experience

Location: Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire

Hybrid

Age limit: Volunteers aged 18 or over

Hours per session: Between 4 and 6 hours

Availability: Flexible

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Charity

At Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care, our unique care provides a lifeline of compassion and support to patients, carers, and families facing progressive life limiting illness. We provide palliative and end of life care support, including bereavement services, within Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire and our patient services are available to adults, as well as patients transitioning into adult services (16 to 25 years.) Bereavement support is offered for all ages to families of patients and those around them, as well as throughout the community, in schools and workplaces.

We are proud to offer care in the place that best suits the individual's needs, whether that's at home, in a care home, in a short stay in our inpatient unit, out in the community, or in our purpose built Living Well Centre facilities. As a hospice care charity, we have offered this support, free of charge, for over 40 years.