Invitation to Apply: Academic Fellow to the Board Post (2025-2027)
22 November 2024
(Last updated: 22 Nov 2024 10:16)
Dear BASHH Member,
We are delighted to announce a new Academic Fellow to the Board post available to serve a two year term from the BASHH AGM in January 2025.
We are looking for an enthusiastic applicant with experience and established links in the field of Genitourinary Medicine and HIV research. This person will play a key role in ensuring that key developments and opportunities in research are fully considered and engaged with as part of strategic decision-making at BASHH board level.
As this is a new board position we are planning to seek approval from the members to update our byelaws at the next AGM to enable them to become a trustee to the board. The post will initially be appointed as a non-trustee (non-voting) co-opted position until this can be considered. If you would like to discuss the role in more detail with one of the BASHH officers please get in touch via admin@bashh.org.
BASHH is Your Specialty Association
It is largely run by Members and Fellows who offer their time, energy and expertise to keep BASHH intelligently developing, analysing and responding to the needs of all those interested in the specialty. BASHH must be relevant and responsive to the challenges we have been facing as regards national strategies, service provision, clinical guidelines and standards, provision of education and training, service innovation and digital health technologies. BASHH has strong links to partner organisations including, but not restricted to: BHIVA, RCP, UKHSA, FSRH, NAT – BASHH is in a strong position to influence and determine the future of our specialty.
Therefore, please give some time to be an active contributor to your specialty society, and a good way may be to consider standing for these posts. We will deliver our objectives most effectively when we have a full complement of positions filled by enthusiastic members ready to contribute to the running of a great organisation.
Completed nomination forms must be returned by 5pm on 6th December 2024 to: The British Association for Sexual Health & HIV (BASHH) c/o Executive Business Support, City Wharf, Davidson Road, Lichfield, Staffordshire, WS14 9DZ. Alternatively please forward an electronic copy to the BASHH secretariat at admin@bashh.org
BASHH Fellow to the Board Nomination Form
Guidance for Board Posts
Please submit a completed nomination form as well as a Trustee’s declaration form. If anyone would like further information about what these posts entail, please contact BASHH Secretariat or any of the other current post-holders.
The Trustee’s declaration form is needed because all elected posts on the Board will be Directors and Trustees of BASHH. Therefore, anyone applying for one of the Board posts needs to complete and return a Trustee’s declaration form with their nomination form. The duties of a Trustee are outlined in the document 'The Essential Trustee: what you need to know, what you need to do' (CC3). This document and further information is available on the Charity Commission website https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/charity-commission. The Trustee’s declaration form can be obtained by contacting the BASHH office at admin@bashh.org or by telephoning them on +44(0)1543 442 190.
Kind regards,
Dr Cara Saxon
BASHH General Secretary