Music Services Trustee
• Volunteer Role • Contract
Applications Close May 18, 2025
Role Focus: Strategic NHS / Commissioning Expertise and Leadership
Nordoff and Robbins advocates for Music as Health & Social Care. For many years, Nordoff and Robbins Music Therapy has worked in NHS settings, including care homes and hospitals. Since 2018 alone we have worked in over 85 different NHS settings. But this work has not been strategically integrated in to care pathways and we want to change this.
We believe that Music Therapy should be an understood and prescribed part of health care pathways. This area of work has real potential to help us reach those in communities who would benefit from music therapy the most and whom would otherwise not have access.
What we need
As part of our new strategy, we are looking to invite people with some or all of the following strategic NHS/Commissioning skills on to our Board of Trustees.
- Significant & strategic understanding of integrated care boards (ICBs),
- Understanding of the NHS funding landscape e.g. commissioning and/or NHS Trusts , personal health budgets
- Strategic incentives within the NHS e.g. Joint Strategic Needs Assessments and Health and Wellbeing Strategies
- The evidence and data that is important to the NHS when taking decisions on care pathways choice
You will offer your expertise and guidance in a period of learning, testing and growth for us.
You will bring your knowledge of best practice at both localised and national levels to help the newly formed Business Development team (focused on Music Services and Delivery) achieve targets.
Trustees on the relevant Committees (in this case the role would also sit on the Music Services Committee – MSC) hold the delegated authority responsibility on behalf of the board. Complete Trustee duties and role expectations are detailed in our Trustee recruitment pack.