Caring since 1946, Strode Park Foundation provides vital care and support services, supported living opportunities and day and leisure services for young people and adults with a range of disabilities across Kent. Our values of Care, Inspire and Together underpin everything we do, and we are very proud to employ truly inspirational people who make our care settings a remarkable place to work.
Are you passionate about making a meaningful difference in the lives of disabled people and their families? Strode Park Foundation is looking for committed, forward-thinking people to join our Council of Management as Trustees.
This rewarding voluntary role offers the opportunity to help shape the future of our charity, provide strategic input, and support our mission to deliver outstanding care and support to our service users.
About the role
The mission of Strode Park Foundation is to provide high quality care and support to people with disabilities. A key responsibility of a Council of Management member is to be a ‘Guardian of the Mission’.
In practical terms this means taking an overview of the activities of the charity, ensuring that all agreed strategic decisions are aligned to the charity’s mission and are implemented in accordance with the values of the charity.
The current Council of Management are a highly skilled and dedicated group of people and we’re looking to strengthen this. We are keen to hear from people from the following areas:
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Legal
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Human Resources
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Healthcare
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Experts by experience
Council Members can also put themselves forward for election to the role of Chair, Vice Chair, Treasurer or for one of the two additional positions that make up the Executive Committee.
The Executive Committee meets with the Chief Executive and Director of Finance more frequently than the Council of Management (approximately once every six weeks) and plays a more active advisory and monitoring role of day-to-day senior management and strategic decisions.
It is also possible that members of the Council of Management could be asked to play a role in interviewing or shortlisting procedures during recruitment of senior managers (e.g. Chief Executive, Director of Care, Director of Finance).
Time commitment
Council members will attend and contribute to quarterly Council of Management meetings which are currently scheduled for the last Wednesday of March, June, September, and November.
The meetings start at 1.30pm and are usually end by 3.30pm.
You’ll need to have read the reports and updates in advance of the meetings.
There are also four online training modules in the following to complete each year:
Behaviour standards - Bullying and Harassment
Policies - Acceptable Use policy; Bullying and Harassment policy
Safeguarding - Safeguarding in Health and Social Care
Data Protection & Confidentiality - Data Protection and GDPR in Health and Social Care.
If you’re interested in finding out more, please contact our Chief Executive, Paul Montgomery on 01227 373292 or email [email protected]
.To apply, please do so via our Strode Park Foundation website.
Strode Park Foundation (“Strode Park”) is fully committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce and the elimination of unlawful and unfair discrimination. Strode Park truly values the differences that a diverse workforce brings to our organisation.
Our aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and for our service users and each employee to feel respected and able to give their best.
Strode Park will not discriminate because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race (which includes colour, nationality and ethnic or national origins), religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. It will not discriminate because of any other irrelevant factor, and will build a culture that values meritocracy, openness, fairness and transparency.
