Who we are
We are a small, independent residential care home with 26 beds, providing compassionate, high-quality care to our residents. Managed day-to-day by a dedicated Care Home Manager, our charity is overseen by a Board of Trustees comprising volunteers with diverse skills in healthcare, finance, and marketing.
The role
The Chair will provide leadership to the board, ensuring effective governance, strategic oversight, and compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. You will work closely with the Care Home Manager, supporting them in delivering the best care to our residents while respecting operational responsibilities.
Key responsibilities include:
- Chairing board meetings and fostering an effective, collaborative board culture.
- Ensuring the charity’s mission, values, and vision are upheld.
- Overseeing financial management and risk governance.
- Representing the charity externally to stakeholders, regulators, and the local community.
- Supporting and appraising the Care Home Manager as part of the board’s governance role.
Who we are looking for
A local candidate (based in Kings Langley or surrounding areas) with:
- Leadership experience, preferably as a Chair, CEO, or senior director.
- Knowledge of charity governance and non-profit responsibilities.
- Familiarity with healthcare or residential care (highly desirable).
- Strong financial literacy and strategic decision-making skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build consensus and inspire the board.
- Commitment to volunteering time and energy to support the charity’s mission.
Chair of Trustees Role responsibilities:
- To ensure the charity has a clear vision, mission and strategic direction and is focused on achieving these.
- Lead on the performance of the Society and for its “corporate” behaviour; ensuring that the society complies with all legal and regulatory requirements.
- To act as guardians of the society’s assets, both tangible and intangible, taking all due care over their security, deployment and proper application.
- Ensures that the society’s governance is of the highest possible standard.
- At all times acts with reasonable care in the interest of residents
- Set overall policy, defining goals and setting targets, evaluating performance against those targets.
- To make sound commercial decisions on the future of the Society which are aligned with market demand and its articles of association/rules
- Ensure that the society functions within the legal, charitable and financial requirements of a charitable or not for profit organisation
- To ensure the financial stability of the Society and the proper investment of funds.
- To use a range of skills, knowledge and experience to help reach sound decisions.
- Make full use of any specific skills, knowledge or experience to help the Board make good decisions.
- Responsible for the recruitment of trustees to the Board
- To use independent judgment, acting legally and in good faith to promote and protect the society’s interests, to the exclusion of their own personal and/or any third party interests
We are looking for:
- Expertise driven opinion and input to the strategy and direction of the home
- People willing to bring energy, enthusiasm and commitment to the role, and who will broaden the diversity of thinking on our Board
- A commitment to the aims and objectives of the Society and to promoting it in the interests of residents.
- A willingness to give time and effort.
- Good, independent judgement.
- An understanding of legal duties, responsibilities and liabilities of trusteeship (or a willingness to learn)
- An ability to work effectively as a team
- People who possess integrity, objectivity, accountability, honesty and leadership
The Statutory Duties of a Trustee:
- To ensure the organisation complies with its governing document / trust deed/ constitution/rules/articles of association.
- To ensure that the organisation pursues its objectives as defined in its governing document.
- To ensure the organisation applies its resources exclusively in pursuance of its objectives, the Society must not spend money on activities, which are not included in its own objectives no matter how ‘charitable’ and ‘worthwhile’ those activities are.
- To contribute actively to the Boards role in giving firm strategic direction to the organisation, setting overall policy, defining goals, setting targets, and evaluating performance against agreed targets.
- To safeguard the good name and values of the society
- To ensure the effective and efficient administration of the society
- To ensure the financial stability of the society.
- To protect and manage the property of the society and to ensure the proper investment of the society’s funds.
- To appoint the Chief Executive Officer (if applicable) and monitor his or her performance
What difference will you make?
This is an opportunity to make a meaningful difference in your local community, helping ensure older people receive compassionate, high-quality care. You will work with a small but committed board and staff team, seeing the direct impact of your leadership.
https://www.kingslangleycarehome.org.uk/
