Imara is a local charity working with children, young people and families affected by child sexual abuse/domestic abuse. We have a gap for a Safeguarding Trustee with knowledge, insight and experience to bring to the charity.
Imara has a strong culture of safeguarding across all areas of our work and practitioners work closely with professionals to escalate concerns and miminise risk for children and young people. We are looking for a Trustee who can support us to maintain a strong culture and grow understanding within the board of trustees.
The role is a fantastic opportunity for anyone wishing to grow their understanding of the charity sector, with specific attention to safeguarding and governance. You will benefit from working alongside a diverse and skilled group of professionals within the board of trustees, the senior leadership team and our wider stakeholders, as well as being offered opportunities for training and growing your experience and understanding of trauma, therapeutic approaches and the criminal justice process.
You do not need to have previous experience of being a Trustee, training and mentoring will be provided as we are keen to support diversity within our team.
You will support the CEO and the senior leadership team who lead on safeguarding, offering support to review and monitor the effectiveness of the operational aspects of safeguarding, to inform strategic approaches and support the culture of safeguarding across the whole organisation. We are also keen to help our commissioners and funders to understand the demands of effective safeguarding on practitioners and its impact on our delivery.
You will be offered opportunities to work alongside the team at the Imara office, to take part in our annual strategy day and to attend training for your role as a volunteer.
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Imara's ethos and values are at the heart of our charity. Our website demonstrates the playful, creative approach we bring to the work, recognising that this best is the best fit for the needs of children, young people and families.
As a trustee you can have an enormous impact on the work of a valued and specialist charity, as well as growing your own skills and experience in a meaningful field of work, making friends and being actively involved across the whole charity.
When the team have good involved and active support and governance from Trustees it allows us to be more responsive to the needs of the families we work with and to provide the value added that enables us to offer additional creative activities; group work; a quality environment, toys and art materials; so that clients feel cherished and valued and begin to believe that they are important and precious. Low self esteem, shame and stigma and powerlessness are all sequelae of child sexual abuse and we want to kick those things out, because they don't belong with the child or young person.
We will ask you to complete a skills audit, a CV and a letter of interest. If successful you will need to provide two references and will require a basic DBS (we will arrange this). You will be invited for interview with a small group of trustees and the CEO. We will ask you to join a board meeting to meet with the trustees and the CEO. We will provide an information pack for new trustees, induction and initial training.
