Director of Frimley Health Charity

An exciting opportunity has arisen within our organisation for a Director of Charity to provide leadership to our Frimley Health Charity to shape the future of healthcare philanthropy in our region.
As well as direct oversight of our funding and fundraising team the successful candidate will join the team at a pivotal time developing a progressive and growing NHS charity onto the next steps of its journey to fulfil the Trust's ambition to be the charity of choice in the region.
You must be an ambitious, innovative, and accomplished leader with proven success in strategy development and delivery, as well as a track record in building and leading high-performance teams and positive cultures.
You will also have demonstrable experience of driving significant income growth through fundraising and marketing and proven communication skills are critical for engaging and developing relationships with a wide range of audiences, including NHS Directors, including non-execs, senior management, senior clinicians, hospital staff, patients, key donors, celebrities, businesses, community supporters and volunteers.
As the most senior management role with corporate responsibility for the Charity, you will work closely with the Director of Communications and Engagement and the Corporate Trustees to provide leadership, and strategic and operational management of the work of the Charity., Playing a central to the role, you will be responsible for increasing the Trust's charitable income from the current circa £2.4m per annum to £5m over the next 3 years.
The purpose of the role is to ensure that the Charity is well managed and that there are clear strategic and operational plans that reflect charity best practice and can allow the Charity to deliver its full potential for charitable support of Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust.
If you believe you have the skills and experience, we need, and you are keen to work in a diverse and innovative trust inspiring people in support of a shared philanthropic vision, we look forward to hearing from you.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Frimley Health Trust benefits on Vimeo, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR - Epic - went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.