Trustees

St Helena Hospice helps local people face incurable illness and bereavement, supporting them, their families, friends and carers. We are seeking two new trustees to join our Board.

We hope one new trustee will bring a medical focus and the second will bring fundraising skills. These opportunity have arisen at an exciting time in our journey at St Helena.  

However, to achieve our vision we need to find a way through a perfect storm of spiraling costs and increased demand, at the same time as income from traditional fundraising methods is diminishing and inflationary pressures are increasing. 
To help with income, we have set up a subsidiary trading arm to manage our growing range of commercial activities.

Already the lead organisation for palliative and end of life care in our area, we want to extend our reach and services to also become a key provider of complex frailty and dementia care. We are exploring moving to a new site and taking the opportunity that presents to develop business cases for new ventures that could be co-located with 
existing services.

Values
The office holders must embody and conduct business in a manner that reflects the 
values of St Helena:
• Bold
• Passionate
• Caring

Personal Qualities
The successful candidates will have:
• Tact and diplomacy 
• Good communication and interpersonal skills 
• Impartiality and objectivity 
• Fairness and the ability to respect confidences
• Commitment to the organisation 
• Willingness to devote the necessary time and effort 
• Strategic vision 
• Independent judgement 
• Willingness to speak one’s mind 

It is desirable that the successful candidates will have experience of Board and Committee 
work at a senior level