Clinical Trustee and Digital Trustee
Overall role
To share the Board’s collective responsibility for the effective governance of Prostate Cancer UK, setting its strategic direction and major policies in accordance with the charity’s objects, vision, mission and values.
Specific duties
Leadership and strategic direction
- To ensure that the charity’s strategic direction, policies and objectives are clearly established and kept under review, maintaining effective communications with the Chief Executive and senior staff.
- To debate and approve the charity’s annual plan and budget, ensuring that these are formulated within a sound financial framework.
- To consider the organisation as a whole, and its beneficiaries, in all discussion of strategic direction, planning and activity.
- To bring fresh thinking and new ideas to Board discussion, enhancing the charity’s fund-raising effectiveness and the delivery of its charitable services.
Ensuring policies and practices are in keeping with aims
- To ensure that adequate information and control systems are in place to inform the Board whether the charity is meeting its objectives and conforming to its policies.
Ensuring best practice
- To fulfil the Trustees’ legal and financial responsibilities, including as a Director of the Charitable Company, ensuring safeguarding, risk and compliance are appropriately managed.
- To maintain partnership and good relations with the Chief Executive, senior managerial staff, the wider staff team and volunteers.
- To contribute specific knowledge, skills, experience, interests and contacts to maximise the charity’s ability to raise income and to increase the scale and quality of the value it brings to its stakeholders.
- To be an active member of the Board and, as appropriate, any of its Sub Committees and Working Groups.
- To contribute to, and take part in, education and training provided for the benefit of Trustees.
- To fulfil other duties and assignments as may be requested from time to time by the Board.