Trustee for Tiny Tickers

Vacancy reference:

July 2012 2

Sector:

Health

Organisation name:

Tiny Tickers

Date added:

02/07/2012 - 13:19

Vacancy type:

Trustee

Location:

National

Vacancy background:

Tiny Tickers, the heart baby charity, exists to improve the detection, diagnosis and care of babies with heart conditions before birth and in their first year of life.

5,000 babies in the UK are born each year with congenital heart disease (CHD). Half of these babies will have major CHD requiring surgery or a procedure in the first year of life. On average, only a third of babies with major CHD are diagnosed before birth. The rest are missed.

Early detection of heart conditions leads to better care during pregnancy and means that birth can be planned to take place at the right time and in the right place. The need for delayed, emergency treatment, which can lead to greater illness and poorer outcomes, is reduced.

Our mission is to give every baby with congenital heart disease the best possible chance in life. Our achievements over the past 10 years include training two thirds of maternity hospitals in England and Wales, improving national standards and protocols, and increasing the average antenatal detection rate of CHD from 25% to 37%. But there is still so much more to do and whilst babies are not surviving due to missed congenital heart disease we won’t stop.

How we help:

· Influencing national standards to improve detection, diagnosis and care by working closely with bodies such as the Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme (FASP) and the Newborn & Infant Physical Examination programme (NIPE)

· Training to improve screening in hospitals, especially at the routine ultrasound anomaly scan

· Raising awareness to inform the public and health professionals about congenital heart disease

· Research to increase understanding of prenatal cardiovascular disease and its impact

· Collaborating with charities, professionals, businesses and supporters to make this a reality

Organisational information:

In 2011/12 we had annual income of approx £120,000 and annual expenditure of approx £110,000 and enough reserves to cover 2-3 months of running costs. You can find our annual accounts on the Charity Commission website.

Primary duties:

Trustee role description

We are looking for Trustees who have experience of health campaigning (either public affairs or public facing eg PR) and those with significant business experience and a willingness to help us broaden our network of corporate contacts.

The statutory duties of a trustee

1. To ensure that the organisation complies with its governing document, charity law, company law and any other relevant legislation or regulations

2. To ensure that the organisation pursues its objects as defined in its governing document

3. To ensure the organisation uses its resources exclusively in pursuance of its objects: the organisation must not spend money on activities which are not included in its own objects, no matter how worthwhile or charitable those activities are

4. To contribute actively to the board of trustees’ role in giving firm strategic direction to the organisation, setting overall policy, defining goals and setting targets and evaluating performance against agreed targets

5. To safeguard the good name and values of the organisation.

6. To ensure the effective and efficient administration of the organisation

7. To ensure the financial stability of the organisation

8. To protect and manage the property of the charity and to ensure the proper investment of the charity’s funds

9. If the organisation employs staff, to appoint the chief executive officer and monitor his/her performance

Other duties

In addition to the above statutory duties, each trustee should use any specific skills, knowledge or experience they have to help the board of trustees reach sound decisions. This may involve:

• Scrutinising board papers

• Leading discussions

• Focusing on key issues

• Providing guidance on new initiatives

· Supporting fundraising activities

• Other issues in which the trustee has special expertise

Required qualifications:

Additional information:

If you would like to apply to be a Trustee please complete the brief application form and email it with your CV to Carla Miller, CEO on carlamiller@tinytickers.org by Friday 6 July 2012. Interviews will be held soon after that. If you would like an informal chat about the organisation do feel free to contact Carla by email to arrange a call (please be aware that Carla is away and not on email 22 June – 1 July).We’re really looking forward to hearing from you and hope that you will want to join us on this next exciting stage of our development.

APPLICATION TO JOIN THE TINY TICKERS BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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1. Why do you want to join Tiny Tickers as an organisation?

2. What experience and expertise would you bring to the Board of Trustees at Tiny Tickers? (Please refer to the person specification.)

Please email to carlamiller@tinytickers.org by 6 July along with your CV.

Thank you for taking the time to complete this application form.

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