Governance Trustee

Can you help us achieve our vision of ensuring that everyone in Buckinghamshire and East Berkshire who is experiencing a mental health problem gets both support and respect?What will you be doing? We connect. We support. We influence. We deliver services in our local communities, in Buckinghamshire and East Berkshire. We promote wellbeing and recovery; we prevent mental ill health; we offer talking therapies and we provide support in times of crisis. We are an independent charity that is proud to be affiliated with national Mind and to adhere to its quality standards of governance and service delivery. Buckinghamshire Mind is part of a network of over 100 Local Minds, which provide trusted mental health services to our communities. Together we are Mind. Open, caring, experienced, unstoppable, together. We stand up for mental health. Our services change lives. For support. For respect. For you.What are we looking for? We are ambitious for our future and looking to recruit Governance Trustee to support our ambition to achieve the highest standards in governance.

• Governance Trustee: experience, expertise and knowledge of charity governance. The role will be instrumental in developing and supporting our ambition to achieve the highest standards in governance. We are looking for someone who can support us to achieve best practice in charity governance proactively suggesting areas for us to improve and putting in place good governance practices.
You will need to be passionate about the charity's mission: To deliver high quality community based services in Buckinghamshire and in East Berkshire, to reach out and ensure everyone with a mental health problem gets access to the help they need. The role of a Buckinghamshire Mind Trustee can be a very fulfilling experience. While unremunerated, all reasonable travel expenses will be reimbursed. Board meetings are held every three months (on Microsoft Teams/in person) and take place during normal working hours. Typically, they last three hours. There is an expectation that Trustees will play an active and visible role in the organisation and will join additional events, conferences and training sessions throughout the course of the year. This is an excellent opportunity to give something back to the local community. At Bucks Mind we take inclusion and diversity seriously. It is important to us that our Trustee Board is representative of the diversity in our local communities. We particularly welcome applications from younger people, people of racialised communities and people with lived experience of mental health problems.