Volunteer Trustee and Honorary Treasurer

Volunteer Trustee and Honorary Treasurer

Are you an experienced leader with a finance background and the passion for making a difference? Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care is seeking a new Trustee to take on the role of Honorary Treasurer to help guide the charity's strategy including a focus on financial responsibilities.

This voluntary role is ideal for someone with strong knowledge of accounting, audit and risk management who can balance strategic thinking with attention to detail. If you are a confident communicator with extensive financial experience and a desire to use those skills to support a local charity, we'd love to hear from you. Your expertise, insight and judgement could make a real difference to the lives of the local people we support.

Main duties of the job

The Trustee and Honorary Treasurer will serve as a key strategic leader on the charity's Board, offering expert oversight and independent judgement to support robust financial management and organisational governance. The role is instrumental to ensuring the charity's financial sustainability amidst a complex operating environment, and requires active collaboration with senior leadership, board committees and a broad range of stakeholders. Candidates must demonstrate deep commitment to the charity's mission and significant experience in financial leadership.

About us

At Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care, our unique care provides a lifeline of compassion and support to patients, carers, and families facing progressive life-limiting illness.

We provide palliative and end of life care support, including bereavement services, within Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire and our patient services are available to adults, as well as patients transitioning into adult services (16 to 25 years). Bereavement support is offered for all ages to families of patients and those around them, as well as throughout the community, in schools and workplaces.

We are proud to offer care in the place that best suits the individual's needs, whether that's at home, in a care home, in a short stay in our inpatient unit, out in the community, or in our purpose-built Living Well Centre facilities. As a hospice care charity, we have offered this support, free of charge, for over 40 years.

Our staff team of 340+ includes a wide range of patient-facing disciplines plus operational support based in Watford, Tring, St Albans, Chalfont St Giles and Berkhamsted. The Charity is now one of the larger UK hospice charities, reaching a GP population of 797,037 of whom 75% live in Hertfordshire and 25% in Buckinghamshire.

Job responsibilities

Governance and strategic leadership

• Actively participate in Board meetings and relevant Board committee meetings, e.g. Risk & Audit, providing objective advice on strategic direction, performance and resources.
• Work with the Chair, Chief Executive and other trustees to ensure the charity maintains the highest standards of governance, complies with all relevant laws and regulations and delivers on its mission.
• Contribute to the development, scrutiny and approval of organisational strategies, major projects and investment decisions, ensuring alignment with long-term goals.
• Champion the charity's values, diversity and inclusion and ethical standards at all times.

Financial oversight and stewardship

• Lead the Board's oversight of all financial matters, including reserves and investment portfolios.
• Oversee robust financial controls, risk management frameworks and reporting systems.
• Brief and advise the Board on financial compliance and reporting.
• Oversee the preparation and Board approval of annual statutory accounts and budgets, ensuring compliance with relevant accounting standards, e.g. SORP for charities, regulatory requirements and best practice.
• Liaise with external auditors and oversee the annual audit process, ensuring any key findings are appropriately addressed.

Organisational support

• Act as a sounding board and provide advice to Chief Executive and financial management as regards financial compliance and developments.
• Extensive senior financial leadership experience.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of accounting standards, audit, risk management, (ideally) charity finance and best practice in governance.
• Exceptional communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills.
• Strategic thinker, capable of balancing detail with the bigger picture, and exercising sound independent judgement.
• Deep commitment to the mission, vision and values of the charity, including principles of equality, diversity and inclusion.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.