Chair of the Finance, Risk and Audit Committee

About the role

We are looking for a Chair of the Finance, Risk and Audit Committee (“FRAC”) who is passionate about mental health service provision and public protection, to join the Board of Trustees. You will become a charity trustee (company director) and ensure that the public interest and charitable objectives run through all that we do.

This is a particularly exciting time to join the organisation as we will be launching our three-year strategy “psychotherapy in a changing world” in the Autumn of 2024. We want to work with you to craft an achievable delivery plan to sit alongside this strategy, which will be accompanied by a medium-term financial plan.

Leading the Board’s oversight of charitable funds, you will be pivotal in ensuring the organisation demonstrates excellent stewardship of resources and is financially sustainable for the future. Your background in financial leadership will be an ideal experience to chair the Finance, Risk and Audit Committee and provide support to our finance team.

About you

This is a role for an individual who is open to new ideas and embraces innovation, who is motivational, pragmatic, and demonstrates sound commercial and business acumen.

You will enjoy the opportunity to support an important cause where there is a growing demand in society for greater choices of high-quality mental health service provision. You’ll work alongside colleagues from diverse backgrounds and collaborate with staff and practitioners. There’ll be scope for professional development as well as personal reward in running the charity and mentoring the executive. In short, it is an opportunity to make a real difference.

About the organisation

The organisation is the leading professional body for psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. We represent training organisations and over 9,000 individual therapists - working privately or in the NHS or voluntary sector - offering a wide variety of psychotherapeutic approaches or modalities.

Our charitable objectives are to promote:

the art and science of psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic counselling for the public benefit; research in psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic counselling and to disseminate the results of any such research; high standards of education and training and practice in psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic counselling the wider provision of psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic counselling for all sections of the public

How to apply

Please submit your CV and a covering letter explaining why you would be suitable for this role to the governance team.

Closing date: 9am Monday 11th November 2024

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Chair of the Finance, Risk and Audit Committee