Role: Board member

Location: Board meetings operate on a hybrid basis, including onsite meetings and occasional engagement with Advance colleagues and customers.

Remuneration: £5,000 p.a.

Joining Advance provides an opportunity to have a real impact, ensuring that we maintain high standards of governance with appropriate scrutiny and challenge, and helping us to develop our services to be the best high-performing organisation we can be, ultimately benefitting vulnerable people that need more choice and more opportunities. It’s a great time to join us as we seek to make a real difference to people’s lives and to deliver our 2026-29 Strategic Plan.

Advance is a leading national provider of homes and support for people with a disability or mental health condition. We operate over a large geographical area across the Midlands, London, South East and South West and have offices in Witney (Oxfordshire), London, Leicester and Truro. Our vision is to transform people’s lives by providing the best quality housing and support services.

We have identified that it is important for our new Board member to have skills and experience in housing operations and the provision of related specialist services.

If you are interested in joining us to support us to continue to make a real difference and to help to shape our plans, we look forward to receiving an application from you.

Advance values diversity and proactively seeks to achieve diversity within our Board and Committees to support good governance, and we welcome applications from people with a wide range of backgrounds including lived experience.

If you decide to apply, please:

  • Provide an up-to-date CV which includes your contact details, education and vocational qualifications, any memberships of professional bodies, relevant career history including any non-executive experience, past and/or current.
  • Write a brief supporting statement setting out why you are applying, drawing out of your CV any relevant experience that equips you for the role and why you think you might be the best candidate for Advance – the information in your statement and the way it is presented will form a key part of the shortlisting process.
  • Provide the names of two professional referees (we will only make contact if you are successful).
  • Complete the Equality and Diversity Monitoring form.
  • Let us know if you cannot make the published interview date.

If you are interested in the role we will be delighted to talk to you, please contact our consultant Sue Manning direct at sue@foresthr.co.uk and we hope that you decide to apply!

Closing date: noon, Wednesday 18th November 2026.

Interview date:  In person at the Advance offices in Witney, Wednesday 2nd December 2026.

Recruitment Information Pack

Equality and Diversity Monitoring Form