Chair - National Star
National Star is a vibrant national charity providing high quality education, personal development, care, accommodation and support services for young adults with complex disabilities and learning difficulties. At National Star, we’re driven by our vision for a world in which people with disabilities are able to realise their potential as equal and active citizens in control of their lives. This sits at the heart of everything we do, from the personalised and world-class learning we provide via National Star College to training, specialist services and our work in the wider community. All of this is underpinned by both our passion to enrich people’s lives and by our moral and statutory responsibilities.
Our Chair, Paul Styles is stepping down after a hugely successful term of ten years. During his tenure the charity has grown and developed, the work we do is more diverse than ever before. For more than 50 years we have supported people with complex disabilities, starting small we are now proud to work with more than 500 young people every year. Our new Chair will help us to ensure that we continue to evolve and grow, to support more young people and their families.
National Star is a complex organisation, with a turnover of c£36 million and more than 1,200 colleagues. We have multiple regulators in England and Wales, we are commercially strong but our margins are tight, so we have to ensure that everything we do is carefully monitored and evaluated. Every pound we spend must help us to deliver better outcomes for the people we support year after year. Social Care is an industry with many challenges and opportunities, our next Chair will help a strong Board and Leadership team to navigate the years ahead.
We are open-minded about your professional background. You are likely to have operated at a senior, strategic level in an organisation of significant scale. You will have been successful at Board level, understanding and believing in the value of good governance and the impact it can have on the success of an organisation. Knowledge of charity governance gained in either an exec or non-exec capacity would be undoubtably helpful, as would some understanding of the challenges faced by people with complex disabilities and their families. This could be from your professional or personal lived experience.
Most importantly, you will share our values and commitment for providing high quality, person centred support and learning. You will be driven to use the skills and experience you have developed both professionally and personally to play a key role in the leadership of National Star. You will lead a talented and stable Board and Executive Team to help us to continue to ensure that the people we support are at the heart of all the decisions we make.
To reflect our ambition and commitment to be more representative at Board level, we particularly encourage and welcome applications from people with a disability, people from minority ethnic backgrounds, and people from the LGBTQ+ community.
For more information on the role, please click here, or for an informal, confidential discussion with our recruitment partners at VBS, please contact Rob Hilyer on 07952 316 654, or by email at nationalstar@vbsearch.co.uk
