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Thank you for your interest in the Chief Executive Officer role at Pembrokeshire and Carmarthen Mind. We wish you every success with your application and throughout the recruitment process.

Please demonstrate your ability to meet the person specification by explaining how your experience, training and/or qualifications have helped you develop the knowledge and skills required for this role.

Please see CEO Job Pack for full Job Description and Person Specification.

Successful candidates will be appointed on merit.

If you have any questions about your application or the recruitment process, please contact recruitment@pcmind.org.uk.

We would also like to remind you that you will need an existing right to work in the UK for us to progress your application.

This role requires a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

At Pembrokeshire and Carmarthen Mind, we consider all applications on the basis of merit and want every candidate to feel able to demonstrate their full potential.

If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage of the selection process, please let us know so we can ensure the process is accessible to you.

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1. As CEO you will be working with an effective established team and supportive board of trustees, how will you be the bridge between these two groups?

2. As CEO an element of your role will be operational oversight, what sort of methods would you envisage using to ensure the smooth running of the organisation?

3. A large part of our current funding is made up of health board and local authority contracts. As CEO, you will work on diversifying income streams to ensure overall organisational sustainability. Can you describe a time when you identified improvements to an organisation's financial sustainability? What actions did you take, what challenges did you encounter, and what measurable outcomes were achieved?

4. As CEO you will be responsible for informing the board on internal and external strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. How might you monitor these and use this information to inform future planning?

5. Our staff, volunteers and clients have told us that they want a CEO who is visible, approachable and genuinely listens to people at every level. Tell us about a time when you have led a team through significant change while maintaining or strengthening a positive organisational culture. What did you do to ensure people felt listened to, supported and empowered?

6. Tell us about a significant external relationship or partnership that you have developed with a funder, commissioner, government body, donor or other stakeholder. How did you establish trust and influence, what did the relationship achieve, and how would you approach representing Pembrokeshire and Carmarthen Mind locally, regionally and nationally?

7. As CEO you will need to embody our vision, mission, values and priorities. Why are these important to you? And how would you use these in your work for us?

8. Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire have unique communities, strengths, and challenges, and it’s important that our Chief Executive Officer understands and values the local context in which we work. Please demonstrate your existing connection to Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire. If you do not have an existing connection, please tell us what interests you about working within our region and how you would ensure you understand the needs and experiences of our local communities?

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