Board Member

Advance Housing and Support Ltd; Witney; Hybrid; GBP 4,300 - 5,800; Full time

Job summary

Advance Housing & Support Ltd is seeking a Board Member to contribute to strong governance and strategic oversight. Board activities operate on a hybrid basis, with onsite meetings and occasional engagement with Advance colleagues and customers across the organisation.

The role supports delivering the 2026-29 Strategic Plan and improving housing and support services for people with disabilities and mental health conditions. Remuneration is £5,000 per annum, and closing date is 18 November 2026.

Responsibilities

• Maintain high governance standards with appropriate scrutiny and challenge.
• Help develop services to be a high-performing organisation that benefits vulnerable people.
• Engage with Advance colleagues and customers as needed during board activities.

Job description

Position: Board Member

Location: Board meetings operate on a hybrid basis, including onsite meetings and occasional engagement with Advance colleagues and customers.

Remuneration: £5,000 p.a.

We regret to inform you that Advance is unable to accept any sponsorship requirements.

About the Role:

Joining Advance provides an opportunity to have a real impact, ensuring that we maintain high standards of governance with appropriate scrutiny and challenge, and helping us to develop our services to be the best high-performing organisation we can be, ultimately benefitting vulnerable people that need more choice and more opportunities. It’s a great time to join us as we seek to make a real difference to people’s lives and to deliver our 2026-29 Strategic Plan.

Advance is a leading national provider of homes and support for people with a disability or mental health condition. We operate over a large geographical area across the Midlands, London, South East and South West and have offices in Witney (Oxfordshire), London, Leicester and Truro. Our vision is to transform people’s lives by providing the best quality housing and support services.

We have identified that it is important for our new Board member to have skills and experience in housing operations and the provision of related specialist services.

Advance values diversity and proactively seeks to achieve diversity within our Board and Committees to support good governance, and we welcome applications from people with a wide range of backgrounds including lived experience.

A copy of our Recruitment Information Pack and Equality and Diversity Monitoring Form can be downloaded from Forest HR website.

Closing date: noon, Wednesday 18th November 2026

About the organisation:

Advance is a national, not-for-profit provider of housing and support services for people with disabilities and mental health conditions. Our vision is to transform lives; providing the best quality housing and support services so that people can live the lives they choose, achieve their personal goals, feel valued and know their voices are heard.

We recognise that our people are our greatest asset and we’re passionate about making Advance a great place to work. We invest in our staff, providing the training and support you need to succeed in your role, gain industry-recognised qualifications and realise your career aspirations.

We are an equal opportunities employer who values its staff and the difference they make to their customers. There is no place for racism or discrimination of any kind in Advance. As an organisation, we will not tolerate it. We are firmly committed to recruiting the best colleagues regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation and to supporting customers from similarly diverse backgrounds.

All newly appointed staff receive an induction, during which they will learn about our PRIDE values, our expectations of how they should treat our customers and our commitments in relation to how they will be treated as a member of staff.

Safeguarding:

At Advance, Safeguarding is embedded in our organisational culture — it’s reflected in our values, our behaviours, and the way we work together. We believe that creating a safe environment is not just about compliance, but about cultivating trust, openness, and accountability at every level.

As the organisation’s Safeguarding Lead, Ryan Brummitt, Executive Director of Support, oversees our safeguarding arrangements and ensures that concerns are acted upon quickly, sensitively and in line with national legislation and local safeguarding procedures.

We believe that safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility. Whether you are a customer, family member, colleague or partner organisation, if you have any concerns about the welfare or safety of someone we support — or of any member of our team — please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

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Together, we can ensure that Advance remains a safe, supportive and inclusive organisation for all.

We value diversity and therefore welcome applications from everyone interested in working at Advance. We are a Disability Confident Leader.

Advance Housing & Support Ltd reserves the right to close this job once sufficient applications have been received.