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DIRECTOR Trustee - Prospectus
DIRECTOR
               FEBRUARY 2019

Trustee
MARCH 2019
DIRECTOR Trustee - Prospectus
CONTENTS

        1     Welcome Letter
        2     Introduction
        4     Strategy
        6     Our Impact
        8     Role Overview
        10    Person Specification
        13    How to Apply

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DIRECTOR Trustee - Prospectus
Welcome

Dear candidate,

Thank you for your interest in joining the         So how do we work as a board, and as a
board of the Imperial Health Charity.              charity?

So why read on?                                    We work through a spirit of partnership
                                                   and team work between the charity and
Imperial Health Charity exists to help the         the Trust. Whilst remaining genuinely
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and          independent, we ensure we get the very
its hospitals do more through grants, arts,        best value from our funds by also having
volunteering and fundraising. We fund              the strong links that allow us to think big,
major redevelopments, medical equipment            keep it simple and act fast in support of our
research and innovation as well as helping         beneficiaries and stakeholders. As you will
patients and their families directly at times      see from the following Trustee description,
of extreme difficulty. Fundraising through         we are looking for an exceptional individual
major appeals and community and staff              to join our board, and help the Charity
events enables us to deliver our grants,           deliver on its future strategy.
arts and volunteering programmes and
continue our essential work.                       Apart from all the obvious qualities and
                                                   skills we lay out further in this document,
It’s also worth making the point that              the one element I would emphasise above
our hospitals serve far wider than the             all else we seek, is that of a trustee who
population of north west London. The               cares. Cares through understanding the
Trust’s clinical care is underpinned by a          future demands our beneficiaries will have;
strong research and education partnership          cares through understanding the pressures
with Imperial College, helping to ensure           on the hospital trust itself; and cares
many of its specialist services are at the         through understanding about ensuring the
leading edge of practice worldwide. The            Charity really does make a difference with
Charity, working with the Trust’s amazing          every penny we spend.
staff, really does make a positive difference
to people’s lives at a time when they are          If you would like to join the dedicated team
hurt, frightened or concerned for family           of trustees, are interested in supporting
and friends. Increasingly, we have also            some of the most well-known hospitals in
been enabling new ways of working with             the country, and believe you have the time
patients and local communities that                and energy to commit to our work – we’d
improve health and care.                           love to hear from you.

We are looking for a Trustee with a strong
background in public health to join the            David Crundwell
board of the charity, and help take us to the      Chair, Imperial Health Charity
next stage of our growth and our support
for the great hospitals and staff we work
with.

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Our Vision
     Introduction                                    By 2022, Imperial Health Charity
                                                     will have enhanced its role as a
     Imperial Health Charity is a registered
                                                     key enabler of improvement and
     charity and a company limited by
                                                     transformation in health and care
     guarantee, formed in 2016 as the successor
                                                     for London, whilst influencing
     to Imperial College Healthcare Charity.
                                                     development nationally.
     It exists primarily to support the work of
     the five hospitals of the Imperial College
     Healthcare NHS Trust - Charing Cross,
     Hammersmith, Queen Charlotte’s &
     Chelsea, St Mary’s and the Western Eye -
     and by extension, the wider health needs
     of the communities they serve in north and
     west London.

     The charity funds major projects, research,
     equipment and programmes supporting
     patients and staff that help to improve
     the efficiency and effectiveness of the
     hospitals, enhance their environment,
     improve patient care and extend clinical
     understanding, above and beyond what
     the NHS can do on its own, as well as
     managing the hospitals’ arts collection and
     volunteering programme.

     This strategy covers the period from April
     2019 to the end of March 2022 and builds
     on the charity’s previous work, reflecting
     the charity’s principal aims of supporting
     patients, families, staff and visitors to the
     hospitals, as well as investing in innovation
     in healthcare.

     Key recent initiatives undertaken by the
     charity and its predecessor body have
     included:
     •   A major investment of £15 million in
         capital projects across the Trust

     •   Taking on the management of and
         making significant investments in
         the NHS Trust’s hospital volunteering
         programme

     •   Funding the development and
         implementation of the Care Information
         Exchange, central to integrating
         healthcare in North West London.

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Our strategy: 2019-2022
    Our focus over the next three years will be to:
    •   Improve patient experience and help to deliver true patient-
        centred care

    •   Develop the careers and enhance the wellbeing of Trust staff

    •   Enable innovation in health and care within the Trust and the
        wider health system.

    We will do this through our grants, arts and volunteering
    programmes, enabled by: income generation through our investment
    and fundraising activities; raising our profile within the hospitals
    and wider community; defining the impact that our work has; and
    developing our charity staff team in order to deliver our work.
    Thematic elements of the strategy will be developed in partnership
    with the Trust’s executive and clinical leadership, in line with our
    ambition to act as a catalyst for transformative change, improving
    care for the local population, whilst leveraging our investment to
    achieve the maximum impact.

    Much of our day-to-day work will remain the same. We have
    worked hard over the last four years to establish ourselves with
    the Trust and we have expanded our activities and staff team as
    a result. However, we are ambitious and this strategy reflects our
    desire to do even more.

    We have identified a need for an enhanced programme of grant
    funding, developed in partnership with the Trust to achieve
    the maximum impact, and will launch a more comprehensive
    evaluation framework alongside this, and across all of our work.

    Through this strategy, over the next three years, we are putting
    people at the centre of what we do. With patients at the
    forefront, we are increasing our efforts to improve the experience
    for everyone who visits our hospitals, which we believe leads
    to better outcomes for their health and wellbeing. We are also
    continuing to invest in clinical innovation.

    We are focusing on how we champion our NHS staff through
    new development opportunities, giving them more autonomy
    to improve patient care and continuing our enrichment offer for
    staff outside of work.

    Lastly, we want to work more widely than just in our hospitals.
    We want to fund and collaborate with the Trust, with NHS
    charities nationally and with other public, private and voluntary
    sector partners to make a real difference to health and care on a
    larger scale.

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Our Impact
     In the last year we’ve awarded £2.8             ‘Transforming the hospital
     million to fund a range of exciting             environment’
     healthcare projects at Imperial College         Our impact in numbers:
     Healthcare NHS Trust. By funding major
     redevelopments, we are helping to
     transform the hospital environment
     for patients and staff. Elsewhere we’ve
                                                                £7.2 million
                                                     Awarded over three years to fund the outpatients
     invested in big ideas and innovations that
                                                     refurbishment project
     will enhance healthcare for years to come,
     while giving out more than £100,000 to
     support patients and their families at
     times of financial crisis. Beyond our grants
                                                               20
                                                     Beds for frail and elderly patients on the Thistlethwayte
     programme, we are also developing new
                                                     ward
     and dynamic ways to help our hospitals do
     more.

     We’re proud to support the arts in
                                                                200
                                                     More children to be treated per year in intensive care
     healthcare through our museum-
                                                     at St Mary’s
     accredited art collection and engagement
     programme. In brightening wards and
     waiting areas, and offering a range of
     creative workshops, we’re continuing to
     have a profound and lasting impact on our
                                                            £5000
                                                     Awarded to improve staff room facilities for A&E staff
     patients’ health and wellbeing.
     Meanwhile we’ve significantly expanded
     our volunteering programme, building an
     active, engaged and dedicated volunteer         ‘Driving innovation in healthcare’
     community that helps to create a warm
                                                     Our impact in numbers:
     and welcoming environment for our
     visitors.
                                                             50+
     Finding new and exciting avenues for our
                                                     Patients attended regular clinics for genetic visual
     fundraising work has also been a key factor
                                                     impairment at the Western Eye Hospital
     in our progress this year. By building links
     with major donors, engaging with grateful
     patients and adopting a dynamic approach               109
     to community fundraising, we’ve raised          Emergency admissions avoided at St Mary’s Hospital
     more than ever before – reaching the £2         due to the PATCH programme
     million target for our More Smiles Appeal
     along the way.
                                                             33%
                                                     Reduction in average length of hospital stay for cancer
                                                     patients supported by the PREPARE for Surgery
                                                     programme

                                                             725,000
                                                     Patient records created through the Care Information
                                                     Exchange

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‘Supporting the arts in
healthcare’                                                ‘Investing in the future’
Our impact in numbers:                                     Our impact in numbers:

           3500                                                      £100,000
Members of the Staff Arts Club, offering NHS
                                                           Awarded for staff training and recognition
staff free access to galleries and exhibitions

          15                                                         97%
Length in metres of the Jo Bruton wallpaper                Of hospital staff who attended a Schwartz
artwork installed at Charing Cross                         Round discussion event would recommend
                                                           to a colleague

          130                                                      7
Art installations to brighten the hospital environment
                                                           Research fellowships awarded

         250+                                                      900+
Creative workshops provided for patients across the
Trust                                                      Downloads of a mobile app supporting new parents

‘Building a volunteer                                      Facts and Figures
community’
Our impact in numbers:

                                                            £2.7 million
         249                                               Total voluntary income

Volunteers supported our hospitals during the year
                                                            £1.5 million
                                                           Total fundraised income

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New hospital teams working with volunteers                  £2.8 million
                                                            Value of grants awarded to the Trust

            86                                              175
New volunteers appointed                                    Grants awarded to the Trust

                                                            £336,180
        25,670                                              Value of research fellowships awarded
Hours contributed by our volunteers

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Role Overview
    Trustee, Imperial Health Charity
    Appointment term
    Initially three years, with the possibility of one or
    (exceptionally) two further three-year terms to be
    served.

    Frequency of meetings
    Four a year, plus being a member of one or more sub-
    committees.

    Remuneration
    None; out-of-pocket expenses for attending meetings
    will be covered.

    The Charity
    Imperial Health Charity supports the work of the five
    hospitals of the Imperial College Healthcare NHS
    Trust – St Mary’s, Hammersmith, Charing Cross, Queen
    Charlotte’s maternity hospital and the Western Eye
    Hospital.

    The Charity raises funds for general purposes and
    one-off appeals; manages assets (including property)
    of c£90million; gives grants towards capital projects,
    to benefit patient experience, to fund research and
    to support staff; manages, exhibits and promotes an
    Arts Council England accredited collection of more
    than 2,000 works of art and runs an extensive arts
    engagement programme with patients and staff; and
    from April 2016 took over the management of the
    volunteer service for the NHS Trust and its
    hospitals.

    The Charity is also closely involved with the potential
    major capital redevelopment of some of the Hospital
    sites, both as a landowner and to run fundraising
    appeals.

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Governance
On 1 April 2016, the Charity became a fully independent
registered charity and company limited by guarantee,
having since its formation in 2009 been an ‘NHS
Charity’ subject to certain conditions as being part of
the Department of Health.

The Charity’s Board comprises nine Trustees: six
independent members and three representing the
NHS Trust. The Chair has to be one of the independent
Trustees.

The representatives of the NHS Trust are the Medical
Director, the Director of Communications and one non-
executive member of the NHS Trust Board. Trustees
serve for a three-year term and can serve no more than
three consecutive terms.

The Trustees of the Charity delegate the day-to-day
management of the Charity to its Chief Executive, Ian
Lush, along with his senior management team and
staff – 29 in all. Trustees are responsible for fiduciary
and financial oversight and for agreeing the strategy
of the Charity. There are sub-committees reporting to
the main Trustee Board on the Charity’s grants, arts,
finances and investments, and Trustees are expected
to join one or more of these. The Board is chaired by
David Crundwell.

The Charity works closely with the NHS Trust and
takes full account of its overall objectives and strategic
direction. The Charity is, nonetheless, independent in
its decision-making and faces some difficult choices
in allocating its resources effectively. Trustees play
a key role in ensuring that this is done in a timely,
transparent and efficient manner, and that the impact
of its fund-raising and grant-giving is measured
systematically. The Charity also works in partnership
with other charities and voluntary organisations to
maximise its impact.

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Person Specification
     Candidates interested in applying to become
     a Trustee of Imperial Health Charity should be
     able to demonstrate knowledge and ideally
     experience in the following key areas:

     •   Membership of other boards or committees
         at a similar level

     •   Professional experience in public health and/
         or epidemiology

     •   Charity governance

     It would be helpful if applicants had a
     connection to the area, the Trust, the Medical
     School and/or research partners and were aware
     of the local demographics. Applicants do not
     need to live in the area served by the Trust.

     The time commitment expected for the role of
     Trustee of the Imperial Health Charity will be
     around 12 days per year of which approximately
     half would consist of meetings. The remaining
     time would consist of preparation, background
     reading and reviewing papers such as grant
     applications. Most of the meetings take place
     at the Charity’s offices on Edgware Road,
     equidistant from St Mary’s and the Western Eye
     hospitals, plus occasional evening events such
     as private views of art exhibitions.

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2019/20 Board Quarterly
Meeting Schedule
 Meeting             Date                     Attendees

 Board of     Monday 17 June 2019      Board of Trustees, CEO, SMT
 Trustees         17:00 to 19:30

 Board of   Monday 16 September 2019   Board of Trustees, CEO, SMT
 Trustees         17:00 to 19:30

 Board of   Monday 9 December 2019     Board of Trustees, CEO, SMT
 Trustees         17:00 to 19:30

 Board of     Monday 9 March 2019      Board of Trustees, CEO, SMT
 Trustees         17:00 to 19:30

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How to Apply
To apply in confidence to become a
Trustee at Imperial Health College, please
submit a copy of your CV together with
a supporting statement. Please ensure
that your application fully addresses
the requirements for the role. Please let
us know if you will require any special
provision as a result of any disability
should you be called for interview. Finally,
please ensure that you have included your
telephone numbers, as well as any dates
when you will not be available or might
have difficulty with the indicative timetable.

Applications should be made via the
Prospectus website at:

Recruitment Timetable

Closing Date:
1st April 2019

Prospectus interviews:
w/c 22nd April 2019

Imperial Health Charity Interviews:
13th May 2019

Queries

If you have any queries on any aspect of
the appointment process, need additional
information or wish to have an informal
discussion, please contact Jess Stockford
or James Wilkinson on +44 207 691 1920 or
email:
jessica.stockford@prospect-us.co.uk
james.wilkinson@prospect-us.co.uk

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