Trustee

Attend Trustee meetings regularly

As a Trustee, you will play a pivotal role in guiding the BCS’ efforts to assist in its growth and drive change. You will also bring wisdom, advice and leadership to the table as the Society’s offering evolves. Trustees are also responsible for the following:

Strategic Leadership

• Shaping ambition, strategy and actively leveraging your network to help the Society to advance its mission
• Overseeing the overall leadership of BCS, including approval of its strategic aims and objectives, review of its performance in light of these, and safeguarding its vision, values and reputation

Governance

• Ensuring that the Board operates in line with best practice and the highest level of integrity and ethical standards
• Ensuring the integrity of financial information and that controls are robust and defendable
• Collaborating on Board membership and other appointments, considering the changes to the structure, size and composition of the Board, senior staff appointments, and ensuring adequate succession planning of the Board and leadership team

Expertise

Partnering with the Board and the leadership team to:

• Provide guidance, specialist advice and constructive challenge
• Actively help the leadership team in a particular area of expertise / interest on an ad hoc basis
• Represent the Service on occasion / as appropriate - at events, in PR, or in new partnership meetings

The Board meets quarterly, usually in person at the Service’s Basingstoke offices.

Person specification

In its new Trustees, BCS is looking for the following:

Qualities and attributes

• A connection to the purposes of BCS and specifically the provision of mental health services – both training and counselling
• Able to uphold the highest standards of integrity and to demonstrate strong alignment with the Society’s values
• Calm and credible - able to provide advice and perspective, acting as a sounding board for the leadership team

Experience, skills and expertise

• Track record of working with organisations through a period of sustained and sustainable growth and change

Given the search for a number of new Trustees, the Board is interested in those who have expertise in one (or more) of the following areas:

• Fund-raising expertise in the charitable sector including experience in obtaining grants and raising the profile of Service
• Human resources and in particular organisational design as BCS continues to grow
• Clinical experience as either a counsellor or psychotherapist with experience of working psycho-dynamically who would be available to consult on matters pertaining to clients or trainees

Diversity and Inclusion

We understand that discrimination and inequality exist in our society. As an organisation, we aim to treat everyone with dignity and respect, and therefore challenge ourselves regularly to ensure we achieve this. We do this by listening and responding to feedback and regularly reviewing our approach to equality, diversity and inclusion.

We want to make this recruitment process as inclusive and accessible as possible. Please get in touch, to discuss any specific requirements or queries you have which relate to inclusion. This might be related to a protected characteristic, accessibility requirement or communication preference.

Skills

Ideally looking for two trustees

(a) One with fund raising / grant applications etc in the charity sector

(b) The other in human resources / organisational design

Initial induction as a charitable trustee