About this role
Job summary
Part time - 30hrs per week
This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing NHS charity at a pivotal time and play a leading role in helping us make a real difference to patients, families and staff across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
Head to Toe is the charity of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT). We provide additional support and services that enhance the outstanding work of NHS colleagues delivering physical health, mental health and social care services throughout the region.
Working in partnership with frontline healthcare teams, we fund innovative projects, initiatives and services that improve patient experience, wellbeing and outcomes. Our mission is to enhance the lives of patients, service users and staff by providing resources and opportunities beyond what can be funded through core NHS budgets.
We are now seeking an experienced charity leader to join us as Interim Head of Charity (Maternity Cover) and help drive the next phase of our development.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing NHS charity at a pivotal time and play a key role in helping us make a real difference to patients, families, and staff.
Main duties of the job
As Interim Head of Charity (Maternity Cover), you will provide strategic and operational leadership for Head to Toe, ensuring the charity delivers maximum benefit for patients, service users and staff while maintaining the highest standards of governance, accountability and impact.
Reporting to the Head to Toe Charity Committee, as a Sub-Committee of the Trust's Board, and working closely with the Trust's Executive Team, you will act as the charity's lead ambassador, building strong relationships with stakeholders, supporters and partners, while raising the profile of the charity across the Trust and wider community.
You will lead a small, dedicated team and oversee all aspects of the charity's fundraising, grant-making, communications, governance and financial management.
This is a unique opportunity to lead a charity at the heart of local healthcare, helping to improve lives across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough every day. As Interim Head of Charity, you will have the chance to shape strategy, grow support, strengthen partnerships and deliver lasting impact for patients, families and staff across our communities.
About us
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead fulfilling lives.
Our clinical teams deliver a wide range of NHS services across inpatient, primary care and community settings, including children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, and research and development.
To achieve our goals, we recruit high calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities' employer, we welcome applications from all sections of the community, particularly under represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
All appointments for new employees to CPFT are subject to the successful completion of a probationary period.
Please note we reserve the right to close adverts early should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all roles. If you apply for a post that does not attract sponsorship, your application will be withdrawn from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at https://www.cpft.nhs.uk
Job description Job responsibilities
Strategic Leadership and Development
Provide strategic and operational leadership for Head to Toe Charity, ensuring delivery of its vision, objectives and long-term sustainability. Advise the Board of Directors and Executive Team on charity-related matters and emerging opportunities. Develop and deliver strategic and operational plans that strengthen the charity's impact, profile and financial sustainability. Build strong relationships across CPFT to embed the charity within the Trust's culture, priorities and values.
Fundraising and Income Generation
Lead the development and delivery of ambitious fundraising and income generation strategies to support services and projects beyond NHS core funding. Grow support from individuals, community groups, businesses, major donors and high-net-worth individuals. Develop and maintain successful relationships with grant-making trusts and foundations, securing funding for priority projects and initiatives. Identify and develop new income streams, partnerships and philanthropic opportunities. Oversee fundraising campaigns, events, appeals and supporter stewardship, ensuring excellent donor experiences and long-term engagement. Use data, insight and performance reporting to drive fundraising growth and inform decision-making.
Charity Impact and Grant Making
Ensure charitable funds are invested effectively to maximise benefit for patients, service users and staff. Lead a transparent, proactive and equitable grant-making programme aligned to organisational priorities. Support staff in developing high-quality funding applications and accessing charitable funding opportunities. Monitor, evaluate and report on funded projects, supporting teams to deliver agreed outcomes and develop sustainable plans beyond charitable investment. Use evidence, insight and stakeholder feedback to inform funding priorities and demonstrate the charity's impact.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications Essential
Educated to degree level (or qualification of similar standing) OR equivalent level of work experience including practical knowledge of the operations of NHS charities. Evidence of continuous professional development.
Desirable
Qualifications or experience in Public Relations and/or Marketing.
Experience Essential
Significant recent and relevant charity experience. Demonstrable track record of leading, developing and retaining a team of dedicated staff within a complex organisation, with accountability to multiple stakeholders. Demonstrable track record of income generation at a senior level. Demonstrable experience and working knowledge of excellent donor care and stewardship and/or customer service. Experience of working with and supporting third party fundraisers and volunteers, managing and monitoring fundraising campaigns, events and appeals.
Desirable
Experience of working in a healthcare charity or similar.
Skills & Abilities Essential
High level of report writing and presentation skills to convey complex information at senior level, including executive, staff and public groups. Strong communication skills and high level of skill in stakeholder engagement with leading clinicians and professionals, staff, the public and internal/external stakeholders. Experience of market segmentation, donor development, designing, implementing and evaluating fundraising appeals, PR, engagement and marketing strategies. Budgetary management skills.
Desirable
Excellent strategic financial planning and awareness skills.
Knowledge & Understanding Essential
Knowledge/experience of the NHS or healthcare sector. Highly developed in-depth specialist knowledge and experience in several disciplines within a charity setting. Fully conversant and up to date with best practice and law in charitable fundraising, fundraising and information governance legislation and codes of practice.
Desirable
Working knowledge of database management at a high level and with the ability to train others.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Employer details Employer name Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Address Elizabeth House
Fulbourn, Cambridge
Cambridge
CB21 5EF
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)