Job Description

Do you want to help improve the healthcare of older people across the UK?

The British Geriatrics Society is seeking a new lay trustee

(Unpaid, expenses reimbursed)

The British Geriatrics Society (BGS) is the professional membership organisation for doctors, nurses and other healthcare specialists engaged in the treatment and care of older people across the UK. Our membership is expanding and we currently have over 3,000 members. We are a registered charity and limited company with a mission to improve the healthcare of older people across the UK.  We are based in Farringdon in Central London, with national councils in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England.

The role

We are seeking to strengthen our Trustee Board by recruiting a new lay trustee to take over from an existing trustee approaching the end of his term of office.

• To contribute actively to giving firm strategic direction to the BGS, setting overall policy, defining goals, and setting targets and evaluating performance
• Scrutinising board papers, leading discussions, focusing on key issues, providing advice and guidance on new initiatives
• Supporting, constructively challenging, and motivating the Chief Executive and other senior staff
• Networking, acting as a BGS ambassador and winning ssupport externally.

The person

• Committed to improving the healthcare of older people across the UK
• Strategic vision and experience of strategic planning
• One or more of the following areas of experience at a senior level: health or social care commissioning; charity senior management or trusteeship; policy influencing; long term financial strategy; marketing; charity law; commercial sponsorship.

The new lay member of the Trustee Board will help to steer the charity through an exciting period of development.

Our trustees are unpaid but we pay travel and other out of pocket expenses, and provide and induction into the BGS’s work. For further details about the BGS, please see our website. To arrange an informal discussion about the role with an existing lay trustee, please contact our Chief Executive, Colin Nee (contact details in the Applicants' Information Pack).