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Corporate Governance Officer
The closing date is 19 October 2025
The postholder will work as part of the Corporate Governance Team, led by the Company Secretary to establish, develop and maintain arrangements and procedures for the sound corporate governance of the Trust.
Predominantly this role will support the Assistant Company Secretary in ensuring that the Trust Board, Council of Governors and Foundation Trust Membership works effectively and efficiently within the constitutional framework of the Foundation Trust.
The post holder will promote the highest standards of good corporate governance and seek to identify opportunities for continuing improvement. The post holder will be required to work on identified projects to develop and implement good governance practice and processes across the service.
Main duties of the job
The post requires the use of excellent organisational, time management and prioritisation skills along with highly developed communication and formal minute-taking skills. The ability to exercise initiative and to deal with multiple tasks is essential; whilst many tasks are regular and pre-programmed there are unplanned requirements to be met in often tight and challenging timescales.
The post holder will establish and maintain proactive communication with colleagues at all levels, within and outside the organisation and will be required to maintain the highest standards of confidentiality at all times.
The post holder also provides personal assistant functions to the Trust's non-executive directors and cross-cover within the corporate governance team.
The post holder will provide admin support to the Board and/or its sub-Committees, including securing room bookings, drafting agendas and compiling and circulating paper packs. Accurate formal minutes will need to be produced, and action plans and bring forward systems kept updated.
Other tasks involved with the role include supporting a Board service visits programme, maintaining registers such as declarations of interests and hospitality, and maintaining the corporate governance web presence.
About us
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
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Job responsibilities
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
* Educated to GCSE Advanced Level or equivalent, or able to demonstrate equivalent experience
* Advanced IT skills
Knowledge & Experience
* Demonstrable experience of working effectively with a Council of Governors and Board of Directors
* Demonstrable experience of using Microsoft Office suite to a professional standard
* Demonstrable experience of engaging with members of the public for the purpose of membership and election recruitment campaigns and publicising conferences
Skills & Abilities
* Proven ability to communicate appropriately and build effective working relationships at all levels.
* Proven ability to produce well-presented clear and accurate documentation other than minutes.
* Ability to organise and prioritise own workload in line with specified deadlines.
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.
Employer name
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
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