Corporate Governance
What can Jill Dentith Consulting offer?
- Support clients to build and develop their corporate governance capacity
- Advice to organisations and individuals to help them understand the principles of good governance and how this can be turned into practice. This includes the appointment of boards and governing bodies, developing mechanisms to engage with communities, monitoring performance, ensuring internal and external accountability, developing a shared long term vision for services delivered through a robust strategic plan and monitored through the planning and delivery cycle
- Robust models of governance framework including the establishment of the legal entity and having a supporting committee and management framework which underpins the organisation which can be tailored to clients and legislative requirements
- Access to a range of decision making tools which are informed and transparent
- Organisational support to identify and manage corporate risks
- Support to establish and disestablish organisations within the correct legal frameworks
- Support to work through the complexities of standards of business conduct and managing conflicts of interest
What Jill Dentith Consulting can bring:
Jill has ten years experience as a Company Secretary in two large successful NHS organisations, the latter with a budget of over £1 billion. As Company Secretary she provided advice to Boards, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG) and Executive Teams on corporate matters. She has detailed experience of developing and implementing assurance processes including Board Assurance Frameworks, risk registers and Annual Governance Statements, formerly Statements on Internal Control.
Jill has a history of establishing and disestablishing large organisations efficiently and within the relevant legal parameters and timescales. This includes a track record of ensuring organisations work within the appropriate legal framework including drafting and reviewing Constitutions, Standing Orders, Schemes of Reservation and Delegation, Prime Financial Policies and Transfer Schemes. She has chairing skills and a history of ensuring meetings are conducted within the legal framework, minuted and actions taken.
As Chair of a CCG Audit Committee she is required to understand the assurance processes within which finance and corporate governance operates, obtain assurance that controls are in place and work effectively and where this is not the case challenge poor sources of assurance.
Other corporate responsibilities have included coordinating and arranging annual general meetings and annual reports, a detailed knowledge of the assessment and management of risk and health and safety and skills in managing customer services and reviewing quality issues, supporting complainants and staff, sharing learning and implementing change.