Trustees (x3)

Job Role: Trustees (x3)            
Company: Air Ambulance Kent Surrey Sussex
Location: Rochester, Kent 
Time commitment: 1 day a month 

Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex (KSS) is now in its 32nd year as an independent, award winning and world-leading, Air Ambulance charity at the forefront of Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) with a strong reputation for excellence nationally and internationally. 

Costing £15.4M annually to operate, our 24/7 life-saving service is only possible thanks the incredible generosity of the communities we serve who contribute 88% of our total income. We serve a population of 4.8 million people plus an annual transient population of 90 million, making us one of the busiest Air Ambulances in the UK, responding to over 2,500 incidents a year.

We are committed to realising our vision of an end to preventable loss of life from medical emergency and continuing to deliver our purpose of ensuring the best possible outcomes for patients across Kent, Surrey and Sussex.

We provide the highest possible care and with a CQC Outstanding rating on all five key lines of enquiry, we put the people who need us at the heart of everything we do. We continue to strive to improve the quality of service to our patients and have a research and innovation programme which helps us to adopt evidence-based practice and make service improvements.

Last year we embarked on the development of our new cultural and strategic framework ‘The KSS Way’, which outlines our vision for the future. To enable us to achieve this we are now looking to appoint four new Trustees to join and input into our high performing organisation and who will bring a new range of skills and perspectives to add to our board.

We are specifically looking for senior experience in the aviation industry, to support the development and evolution of our aviation model to meet the needs of our organisation as it further develops.

Alongside this we are also looking for someone with medical experience and a good understanding of clinical governance. We already have a Trustee with extensive clinical critical care experience so to complement this your experience could be as a trauma surgeon, an ED clinician, a paramedic or someone with a relevant research background.

Additionally, we would like to find a candidate with experience of developing income generation strategy or managing philanthropic giving and who can bring their understanding to inform how we can continue to build and extend our fundraising activity and meet our ambitious plans. 
We would also like to find someone with experience in charity law and/or charity governance and who can bolster our experience in relation to wider legal matters and risk management.

This is an exciting time to come onto our Board as KSS moves into an ambitious strategic phase to ensure we continue to provide a world-class, fast-response emergency medical care that continues to save lives. 
We welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities from Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic backgrounds, people from the LBGTQ+ community and people from different social-economic and educational backgrounds.

Closing date: Monday 17th January 2022

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