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Trustee Role Profile
Strategic Leadership
- Provide strategic leadership to the charity, ensuring that Home-Start UK and the Home-Start network can maximise its impact for the families it serves.
- Help to ensure Home-Start UK is a prominent part of the landscape of support for family and children and is at the forefront of policy and practice affecting families, children and young people.
- Understand and promote equity, equality, diversity and inclusion and help advance our commitment to progress further.
- Build effective relationships with other trustees and staff to provide challenge, support and counsel to the charity in achieving the organisation’s mission.
Governance
- Work with the Chair of Trustees and other trustees to support the Board to fulfil its duties and responsibilities to ensure the sound health of the charity, with robust systems in place to ensure financial accountability and integrity.
- Contribute to a healthy culture of challenge, scrutiny and support among the Board, that governance arrangements and meetings are working effectively.
- Support the Board in regular review of major risks and associated opportunities and ensure that robust systems are in place including in relation to the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults.
Relationships
- Act as a trusted ambassador for the charity, with external stakeholders and influencers including representing the charity at events and in generating income as required.
- Build strong and trusted relationships with the wider Home-Start network and with strategic partners and funders that can support greater impact for families.
- Be prepared to act as a spokesperson for the charity and to act as senior point of referral for problem-solving and disputes.
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Person specification
Candidate should bring expertise in at least one of the following areas:
- Safeguarding Lead Trustee: The successful candidate will bring substantial safeguarding experience, ideally gained within children’s services, family support, or early years settings. They will have a strong understanding of safeguarding governance, assurance, and organisational culture, enabling them to provide effective support and constructive challenge to both the Board and senior leadership team. Knowledge of safeguarding policy and practice across the four nations of the UK would be an advantage.
- Fundraising and marketing: Expertise in fundraising and marketing.
- Digitalisation of services: Experience in digitalisation of services and in use of data and impact measurement.
- Financial and commercial expertise: Financial and commercial expertise with a view to succession planning to replace trustees on our Finance Committee who will leave us at the end of 2027, including a Treasurer designate who should be financially qualified.
- Leading a federated charity: Experience of leading a federated charity.
We value the voice of lived experience on our Board and would welcome applications from people with direct experience of receiving Home Start support or being a volunteer delivering it. Previous experience of being a trustee is welcome but not necessary - we can provide a supportive environment for those wishing to gain their first trustee role. Trustees will be required to have a basic DBS check and must not be disqualified to act as a trustee under the Charity Commission’s requirements.
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Skills and attributes
Whatever their specialist skills and knowledge, all candidates should be able to demonstrate the following attributes:
- Sound judgement and integrity; demonstrates capacity for self-reflection and is a clear and independent thinker.
- Highly effective relationship and alliance building abilities, comfortable in an ambassadorial role - with the ability to inspire and motivate staff, volunteers and stakeholders and bring people together.
- Outstanding interpersonal skills with high emotional intelligence and the personal impact, influence and credibility to represent a significant, national organisation.
- Insightful on and committed to inclusion; someone who can act as an ambassador for diversity across the network and a deep personal commitment to supporting families of every kind in all communities with the different issues they face.
- Team player who enjoys working with others and fosters a collaborative culture.
- An interest in good governance and the discipline of Board leadership and management.
- The ability to participate effectively in meetings to hold to account the organisation’s executive and other Board colleagues, and the ability to balance conflicting factors and make objective decisions.
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