Trustee

Leeds Hospitals Charity's Board of Trustees currently comprises of 12 Trustees with a scope for up to 15. Our Chair is Dr Yvette Oade CBE, who is in her second three-year term as a Trustee and her first Chair of the Charity. We are looking to appoint a Trustee who is a qualified accountant to enhance the Board's skills and expertise to help shape and grow the Charity to provide the best support to our NHS. We are looking for someone who will:

• Support and provide advice on the Charity's purpose, vision, goals, and activities.
• Approve operational strategies and policies and monitor and evaluate their implementation.
• Oversee our financial plans and budgets and monitor and evaluate progress.
• Ensure the effective and efficient administration of the organisation.
• Ensure that key risks are being identified, monitored and controlled effectively.
• Review and approve our financial statements.
• Provide support and challenge to the Charity's CEO in the exercise of their delegated authority and affairs.
• Keep abreast of changes in the Charity's operating environment.
• Contribute to regular reviews of the Charity's own governance.
• Attend Board meetings, adequately prepared to contribute to discussions.
• Contribute to the broader promotion of the Charity's objects, aims and reputation by applying your skills, expertise, knowledge, and contacts.
  
  Be a qualified accountant with some experience of the third sector.
• Be constructively challenging and attentive to detail.
• Be able to use their independent judgment, acting legally and in good faith to protect the Charity's best interests.
• Have an interest in health-related charity issues or prior Trustee experience, although these are not mandatory.