Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Head of Fundraising

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Job summary

This is an extraordinarily exciting time to join the Trust. We are in the middle of a comprehensive upgrade and transformation of the buildings and services through which we deliver care, ensuring that these new facilities incorporate the very latest insight technology and comfort for the users of our services. This ambitious capital programme is important, and we hope that fundraising can contribute to these facilities being even more outstanding than we currently plan. There is also a wealth of other services and support within our community that we would like to provide, and where we believe a fundraising function can help to deliver excellence for the communities we serve.

Among these services is a more comprehensive approach to children's and young people's mental health, widely seen as an area of significant unmet need across the whole of the UK. At the other end of the age range, we want the care and support we offer to those with dementia to be exemplary, and we want to develop research active elements of our work, particularly in evaluating different types of community interventions to understand the difference they can make on the wellbeing of our service users.

Main duties of the job

The primary purpose of this new role is to build a successful fundraising function to deliver results over the short, medium and long-term. The successful applicant will lead the introduction of fundraising, working to develop the tools and language to make it successful, as well as starting to drive the internal cultural change and understanding of Surrey andBorders as a charitable cause.

They will set direction and build strategy, but will also beresponsible for implementation, for 'doing' as well as 'managing' in the first instance. It is expected that in time the postholder will also be responsible for leading grant-making, and that in the medium term the Trust will establish an independent Hospital Charity whose governance will be the responsibility of the post-holder.

About us

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Date posted

08 April 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£52,963 to £59,360 a year including 5% fringe per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

325-6173658-CORP

Job locations

18 Mole Business Park

Randalls Road

Leatherhead

KT22 7AD

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please review the job description and specification for further details about the role and the responsibilities.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please review the job description and specification for further details about the role and the responsibilities.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Master's degree, or equivalent experience
Further training and/or qualification in aspects of fundraising/marketing

Experience

Essential

Significant experience of achieving high fundraising performance, in a major donor setting in an NHS environment, charity, university or other relevant setting.
Experience/ability to engage with stakeholders/donors both individuals and organisations
Event management experience
Budgetary and financial control experience
Experience of using a variety of fundraising techniques to raise substantial sums
Experience of delivering against targets under pressure

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Master's degree, or equivalent experience
Further training and/or qualification in aspects of fundraising/marketing

Experience

Essential

Significant experience of achieving high fundraising performance, in a major donor setting in an NHS environment, charity, university or other relevant setting.
Experience/ability to engage with stakeholders/donors both individuals and organisations
Event management experience
Budgetary and financial control experience
Experience of using a variety of fundraising techniques to raise substantial sums
Experience of delivering against targets under pressure

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.