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DIRECTOR
FEBRUARY 2019
Trustee
MARCH 2019
CONTENTS
1 Welcome Letter
2 Introduction
4 Strategy
6 Our Impact
8 Role Overview
10 Person Specification
13 How to Apply
B TRUSTEE | IMPERIAL HEALTH CHARITY | MARCH 2019
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
6 TRUSTEE | IMPERIAL HEALTH CHARITY | MARCH 2019‘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
14
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
TRUSTEE | IMPERIAL HEALTH CHARITY | MARCH 2019 7Role 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.
8 TRUSTEE | IMPERIAL HEALTH CHARITY | MARCH 2019Governance
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.
TRUSTEE | IMPERIAL HEALTH CHARITY | MARCH 2019 9Person 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.
102019/20 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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