Chair of Finance, Audit and Risk Committee

About the role

We are looking for a new Chair of our Finance, Audit and Risk Committee to join a board that has a genuinely open and engaged relationship with our executive team. This role is for someone who enjoys meaningful dialogue, who asks the questions that need to be asked and who is both supportive and challenging in equal measure. Our current Chair of the committee is stepping down from chairing the committee this year.

Our Finance, Audit and Risk committee provides oversight and scrutiny of our financial health, audit processes and risk management framework. As Chair, you will work closely with our Director of Finance and Resources and the wider executive team, helping to ensure we remain financially resilient at a time when funding pressures across the social care sector are very real. We need trustees who understand that context and can help us navigate it with both rigour and humanity.

You will bring genuine financial expertise, whether as a finance director, chief financial officer, chief operating officer or similar, alongside a real interest in the social care sector and what it means to provide high‑quality support to people with complex needs. You will not necessarily have chaired a committee before. What matters far more is that you have experience and understanding to contribute, the confidence to ask probing questions and the willingness to make this a genuine priority.

We are looking for a Trustee who will be engaged and build relationships across the Board and team. You will be practical, enjoy working in dialogue with others, be genuinely curious about our organisation, our people, our challenges and our ambitions and have the capacity to make a real difference.

Our Board meetings take place quarterly in person at our offices in Reigate, Surrey. This is usually at 6 p.m. There is also an annual governance day in November, a collaborative event that brings together staff, Trustees and the people we support to review strategy and shape priorities together. Our Finance, Audit and Risk Committee meets four times a year virtually at 5.30 p.m. We anticipate the time commitment to be approximately a day a month on average, including meetings, preparation, ad hoc conversations and attending events and visiting services throughout the year.

We actively welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and particularly encourage candidates from underrepresented communities on our Board.