Corporate Governance Officer

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust; Oxford; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Corporate Governance Officer to deliver comprehensive secretariat support to the Board, its Committees and the Council of Governors. The role sits in the Corporate Affairs Directorate at headquarters in Oxford, working with senior leads to drive governance, risk management and secretariat functions.

You will coordinate meetings, prepare minutes, maintain registers and provide advisory support to the Chair and senior governance leads.

Qualifications

• Provide a professional secretariat service to designated Board Committees, the Council of Governors and other senior governance meetings, ensuring meetings are effectively planned, administered and documented.
• Develop and maintain annual meeting schedules, workplans, agendas and action trackers to support delivery of the Trust's governance and assurance processes.
• Attend meetings and prepare accurate, concise minutes and records of decisions, ensuring actions are monitored and completed.
• Maintain governance records and registers, including registers of interests, gifts and hospitality, use of seal and other statutory records.
• Provide high-quality administrative and advisory support to the Chair, Non-Executive Directors and senior governance leads as required.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and support committee meetings, events and collate reports across the annual business cycle.
• Prepare committee workplans, minutes and action logs.
• Support governance risk management and secretariat functions.

Job description

We are recruiting for a Corporate Governance Officer to join our team at Oxford Health and deliver comprehensive secretariat support to the Board of Directors, its Committees and to the Council of Governors. We are looking for a person with a strong interest in Corporate Governance.

You will be based within our Corporate Affairs Directorate at our headquarters in Oxford, working closely with another Corporate Governance Officer and senior leads in the directorate. You will be supporting our Board and senior team to deliver our objectives in corporate governance, risk management and committee and secretariat functions. You will use your significant organisational and communication skills to coordinate and support committee meetings, events and collate reports across the annual business cycle. Key written deliverables will include committee workplans, minutes and action logs, committee documents e.g. terms of reference and committee annual reports.

You will be working with a variety of senior stakeholders across the Trust including the Board of Directors therefore you will need to be confident working with others and have discretion, tact and diplomacy skills to navigate sensitive and complex information.

If you have experience in corporate governance or related roles, we would like to hear from you.

• Provide a professional secretariat service to designated Board Committees, the Council of Governors and other senior level governance meetings, ensuring meetings are effectively planned, administered and documented.
• Develop and maintain annual meeting schedules, workplans, agendas and action trackers to support delivery of the Trust's governance and assurance processes.
• Attend meetings and prepare accurate, concise minutes and records of decisions, ensuring actions are monitored and completed.
• Maintain corporate registers and governance records, including registers of interests, gifts and hospitality, use of seal and other statutory records.
• Provide high-quality administrative and advisory support to the Chair, Non-Executive Directors and senior governance leads as required.

Oxford Health delivers physical, mental health and social care services across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our vision is "Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team", and our values are Caring, Safe and Excellent.

We are proud to offer a supportive working environment with opportunities for career progression, learning and development, generous annual leave, pension benefits, wellbeing initiatives and staff networks

Please note that this role will require us to undertake a DBS check as a part of your onboarding.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Hannah Smith Job title: Assistant Trust Secretary Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01865 902 854

At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.

Therefore, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application.