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Here at South Central Ambulance Service, our mission is to deliver the right care, first time, every time alongside the vision to be an outstanding team, delivering world leading outcomes through innovation and partnership.

Our Chief Governance Officer role is a challenging yet rewarding opportunity where you will need to be an exceptional and highly skilled senior leader who will be a key member of the Executive Management team. 

Combining the roles of Director of Corporate Governance and Company Secretary, you will need have experience working at a similar level and possess the specialist knowledge and depth of experience to deliver, and embed, a structured approach to corporate governance, Trust-wide. You will also ensure that the Trust complies with relevant legislation and operates in accordance with the organisations CQC provider licence at all times.

The Chief Governance Officer will be required to have a strong and visible presence across the Trust and will need to ensure that governance, risk, legal and our health and safety across the Trust are positive, proactive and influential in contributions to the Trust’s strategic and operational planning processes moving forward.

The role will be primarily based from Northern House in Bicester, Oxfordshire - 2/3 days per week with the other days being home working. There will be an expectation for the post holder to travel to other SCAS locations as and when required.

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Managing a team is a core responsibility of the role as the Governance team supports all meetings of the Board and its five assurance committees, along with servicing the Council of Governors and its sub-committees.  

Risk management is a significant area of focus for this post as the Trust develops and embeds its Board Assurance Framework and Corporate Risk Register.

You will need excellent communication and people skills as you will be required to communicate with a variety of stakeholders both internally and externally to ensure sound governance of the Trust along with, efficiency, effectiveness, integrity and strong business focus for the organisation.

You will be required to provide professional advice and guidance to the Board of Directors and the Council of Governors, and to act as the principal advisor to the Chair and Chief Executive on all matters relating to governance, statutory compliance, regulation and legal aspects.

You will lead by example, always modelling and upholding the right behaviours.

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Benefits we offer:

• Expert training and support from our dedicated in-house education team.
• Holiday entitlement is 27 days rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years, plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time).
• Enrolment into the NHS Pension Scheme.
• Access to continual professional development and opportunities within SCAS and the NHS.
• Occupational Health support along with an Employee Assistance Programme.
• NHS Discounts in over 200+ stores including Holidays, Days out, Car insurance, Restaurants and Clothing.

About Us

South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of emergency, urgent care and non-emergency healthcare services, along with commercial logistics services.

The Trust delivers most of these services to the populations of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire and Oxfordshire as well as non-emergency patient transport services in  Sussex.

We serve a population of over 7 million and answer over 500,000 urgent calls a year. We employ 4,551 staff who, together with over 1,100 volunteers, enable us to operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Please be advised that South Central Ambulance Service reserves the right to close this campaign earlier than the advertised closing date.