Medical TrusteeNHS

Job summary

Help Shape the Future of Children's Neurorehabilitation

The Children's Trust is the UK's leading charity for children with brain injury and neurodisability. We are seeking an experienced Medical Trustee to join our Board and help shape the future of our specialist services.

As a Trustee, you will provide strategic clinical insight and support Board discussions on clinical quality and safety, governance, service development, workforce standards, risk management, and regulatory compliance. Working alongside fellow Trustees and Senior Leaders, you will help ensure children and families remain at the heart of decision-making.

Main duties of the job

About You

We are looking for a registered medical practitioner with senior-level experience and expertise in areas such as paediatrics, rehabilitation medicine, neurology, neurodisability, intensive care, complex care, or related specialties.

You will bring a strong understanding of clinical governance and patient safety, alongside the ability to contribute strategically and independently.

Why Join Us?

This is an opportunity to:

• Influence the future of a nationally recognised children's charity.
• Support services that transform the lives of children and families.
• Develop your governance and leadership experience.
• Contribute to an organisation renowned for clinical excellence and innovation.

We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive Board and welcome applications from all backgrounds.

About The Children's Trust

Based in Tadworth, Surrey, The Children's Trust is the UK's leading charity for children with brain injury and neurodisability. Through specialist rehabilitation, education, therapy, community, and residential services, we support children and young people with some of the most complex healthcare needs in the country.

Every day, our teams work together to help children achieve the best possible quality of life and maximise their independence and potential.

Deadline for applications: Monday 31st August

Job description

Trustees of The Childrens Trust play a critical role in the leadership of our Charity, ensuring that it achieves its objects to the benefit of children, young people, and their families.

With one of our trustee members of the Quality, Safeguarding, Experience & Assurance Committee (QSEAC) having recently resigned from the board, we are looking to appoint a new trustee with recent board level experience as a strategic medical or clinical leader, ideally with senior paediatric experience.

This is an exciting time to join the Trustee Board as we roll-out our new strategy to ensure the Charity continues to thrive into the future, fulfilling its duties and responsibilities to its beneficiaries.

Our most important objective is to appoint trustees who are motivated and excited by the charitys work and ambition and who display a strong affinity with the needs and experiences of its beneficiaries.

We are particularly looking for someone who can bring strategic medical leadership, strong clinical governance insight, and an understanding of how specialist services operate and develop within the NHS. The successful candidate would be a full Board member and member of QSEAC.

At the heart of our new strategy, is our role as a provider of clinical services working increasingly closely as part of a wider local, regional, and national healthcare systems.

Providing safe and effective care for all children and young people at The Childrens Trust is and will continue to be our number one priority. We continue to further strengthen our clinical governance system and processes in line with national policy.

We would like to hear from you if you are, or have been, a senior medical or clinical leader with experience in paediatrics or a closely related specialty and can help the Board provide strategic oversight of quality, safety, service development, and clinical governance. Experience of paediatric neurodisability, acquired brain injury, rehabilitation pathways, specialised commissioning, or service growth would be welcome, but is not essential.

Key responsibilities

As a trustee and full board member, you will be responsible for:

Ensuring The Childrens Trust (TCT) is carrying out its purpose for public benefit, maximising its reach and impact.

Ensuring compliance with TCTs governing document, charity law, and all other relevant regulations.

Ensuring the board acts in the charitys best interest, exercising reasonable care and skill in its decision making, managing TCTs resources responsibility, and avoiding exposing the charitys assets or beneficiaries or reputation to undue risk.

Contributing to the strategic development and planning process, including providing commercial acumen, insight into the external market and wider sector, or brining experience of strategy development at similar organisations.

Ensuring the organisational culture and values, governance arrangements, management, and operational structures are fit for purpose, helping TCT achieve its strategic aims and objectives and minimise risk.

Reviewing and approving budgets and business plans to ensure alignment with strategic objectives.

Supporting the board to fulfil the full range of its statutory and oversight responsibilities. This includes oversight of operational and financial performance, risk management, governance (corporate, clinical, and educational), quality and regulatory compliance and in providing assurance on these matters to the board.

Coaching and mentoring senior leadership or providing subject matter expertise on specific topics/ challenges.

Participating and contributing to the activities of any working party groups, the board or its committees may set up from time to time to lead specific projects and initiatives.

Supporting fundraising events and initiatives including through personal networks.

Ensuring the organisation has robust safeguarding arrangements in place.

About us

About Us

The Childrens Trust is the UKs leading charity for children with acquired brain injury, providing expert rehabilitation, education, therapy, and care at our national specialist centre in Tadworth, and to children and their families across the UK, via our Brain Injury Community Service.

Boasting a beautiful 24-acre site in Surrey, we are located just outside of London, close to the M25 (accessible via Junction 8, A217 to Tadworth) and easily accessible via National Rail, by way of: Clapham Junction, Sutton, and Epsom.