Chair

St Michael’s Hospice supports the community of Hastings and Rother to live well with dying, death and loss. Could you be our new Chair?

Applications close at 9 a.m. Monday 8th July

About St Michael’s Hospice.

Established in 1987, St. Michael’s Hospice is an independent charity providing high-quality, holistic, specialist palliative and end-of-life care to people living with serious, advanced, life-limiting illness, and their families, including in bereavement, across Hastings and Rother.

The role of the Chair.

The Chair and the Board hold the CEO to account for the Charity’s purpose, values and strategic priorities. You will provide collaborative leadership of the Board of Trustees, ensuring that each Trustee fulfils their duties and responsibilities for the effective governance of the charity.

You will also support and, where appropriate, challenge the CEO on the performance of the leadership team, ensuring that the Board functions as a unit and works closely with the leadership team for the Charity to achieve agreed objectives. You will also act as an ambassador and the public face of the Charity in partnership with the CEO.

As the Chair, you will be expected to meet regularly with the Chief Executive and also represent the charity at various events and meetings with key stakeholders.

You will provide leadership to the Charity and its Board, ensuring that the Charity has maximum impact on its beneficiaries and with Trustees, to hold the Hospice ‘in trust’ for current and future beneficiaries by:

• Ensuring the Hospice has a clear vision, mission and strategic direction and is focused on achieving these.
• Being responsible for the performance of the Hospice, including its clinical outcomes, and for its ‘corporate’ behaviour
• Ensuring that the Hospice complies with all legal and regulatory requirements.
• Acting as guardian of the Hospice’s assets, both tangible and intangible, taking all due care over their security, deployment and proper application and to act to ensure its long-term sustainability.
• Ensuring that the Hospice’s governance is of the highest possible standard.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for someone with significant board and governance experience within similarly scaled organisations, and an understanding of Charity Commission legal responsibilities and public director roles. You will also need to have a commitment to the Hospice’s values, aims, and objectives is crucial, along with a genuine interest in its work. You must possess strong emotional intelligence and facilitation skills to create a safe environment for sharing views and making evidence-based decisions. Tact, diplomacy, effective listening, and engagement are vital.

As a confident ambassador, you will network well, build rapport, and guide organisations through change and transition. Qualities including leading high-performing boards, inspiring and empowering teams, managing capital projects, financial governance, strategic change experience, and knowledge of palliative care services are desirable

Please click 'Apply via website’ to be redirected to the Peridot Partners website, where you can find full details of the candidate profile and register your interest to apply.

Applications for this role close at  9 a.m. Monday 8th July.