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Executive Director
Grade
Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Flexible working
48 hours per week
Job ref
391-RFL-6246795
Employer
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal Free Hospital
Town
Hampstead
Salary
Dependant on experience
Closing
09/05/2024 23:59

Employer heading

NHS

Chief Executive Officer - Royal Free Hospital

Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM

Our trust has around 10,000 staff serving 1.6 million patients. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital and more than 30 services in the community.  This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.

Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.

Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

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Job overview

A voting member of the Board, the CEO of the Royal Free Hospital, will contribute fully to the development of strategy and policy as well as the delivery of statutory and corporate responsibilities across the Royal Free Hospital site and the wider group. Responsible for leading the Royal Free Hospital, ensuring the delivery of both the group and local strategy, providing the highest quality clinical care, the CEO will support, through this work, the Royal Free Group’s governing objectives to achieve optimum patient care, outcomes and experience, and efficient use of resources.

The Hospital CEO will lead a strong site executive team, each of whom has a critical role in enabling transformation across the hospital and the wider group, including local executive HR and Finance colleagues, bringing together the whole group as a cohesive, motivated, high performing site leadership team. The successful candidate will develop and ensure the visibility of leadership, deploying strategic joined up thinking across the Royal Free Hospital to motivate staff and deliver excellent patient care efficiently and effectively.

As well as their leadership role within the hospital, the CEO will hold important leadership responsibilities for developing and managing external stakeholder relationships and promoting the hospital and wider group externally within the Integrated Care System, taking the leadership role with local authorities and Trust governors for the local Place strategy and delivery. 

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities of Job Holder

  • Lead the strategic and operational day to day activities of the Royal Free Hospital and its services (some of which are delivered across the wider Group and region), including fully managed networks and the hospital’s specialised (tertiary) services, ensuring they are run effectively and to budget;
  • Develop and mentor a cohesive site leadership team, who are visible across the Royal Free Hospital, driving a supportive and inclusive culture of accountability and improvement;
  • Take a Place based leadership role in developing and nurturing external stakeholder relationships with local healthcare and social care providers, local authorities and the ICS strengthening collaborative working to improve patient outcomes and experience;
  • Ensure the Royal Free Hospital Site complies with all quality, governance and statutory requirements;
  • Meaningfully contribute at Group Board to drive improvements and efficiency and deliver on the Group’s strategic objectives.

Please refer to the attached candidate brief for full details about the role.

Working for our organisation

A historic teaching hospital which has served communities in North London and its surrounds since its foundation in 1828, the Royal Free London combines world class medical expertise with local and friendly care, as it strives to tackle health inequalities in this vibrant part of the capital.

 

Operating across three hospital sites, the Royal Free Group is one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country, treating approximately 1.6m patients every year. With a strong reputation for innovation, high performance and partnership-building, the Trust closely collaborates with partners across the local provider landscape, as well as performing a significant role within UCL Partners, the UCL Health Alliance, and in the North Central London ICS. 

 

Royal Free London’s mission is to be world class in innovative healthcare services, ground-breaking clinical research, and future-focused teaching, ultimately combining world-leading expertise with local care. We are now looking for a talented executive leader to be responsible for the development of the Royal Free’s strategy, its people, its partnerships, its services and ways of working, and for the delivery of its services at the Royal Free Hospital site in Hampstead.

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full details about the role and responsibilities,  please see the attached Candidate Information Pack.

The pack includes job summary, person specification,  application and selection process,  and contact details.

The MBS Group are acting as The Royal Free’s advisors on this appointment. To apply, please send a covering letter, a CV, and a completed Equality Monitoring Form to [email protected] by noon on Friday 10th May 2024.

Person specification

Royal Free World Class Values

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrable ability to meet the Royal Free Group’s values: • Positively welcoming • Actively respectful • Clearly communicating • Visibly reassuring

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Board level experience in providing HR and OD advice in an acute healthcare organisation or comparable healthcare or services setting
  • Experience of developing and delivering HR and OD strategies
  • Experience of leading wide-ranging cultural change programmes
  • Evidence of successfully developing and supporting workforce transformation in a large, multi-disciplinary organisation
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of working in a teaching hospital environment, Foundation Trust and/or multisite environment
  • Experience of working in a shared services environment
  • Experience of leading a merger or integration, or equivalent, similar in size and significance
  • Significant experience of personal achievement in developing HR and OD services

Personal Attributes

Essential criteria
  • Strategic thinker
  • Excellent interpersonal, communication and leadership skills
  • Able to lead and motivate others, strong influencing and negotiation skills
  • Ability to cope with complex organisational issues and able to relate to a wide spectrum of NHS professionals
  • Detailed knowledge and understanding of Employment Legislation, best HR practices and Workforce planning
  • Able to assess priorities and make decisions, quick to grasp a point, able to "think on feet", influence, persuade, give leadership and direction
  • Knowledge and understanding of key NHS issues, including at a national level and has ability to establish local policy drivers
Desirable criteria
  • Service improvement and redesign techniques
  • Relates immediate situations to trends and pressures

Education & professional Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Chartered Member of CIPD
Desirable criteria
  • Educated to Masters Degree or equivalent level management qualification
  • Postgraduate management / leadership/ organisational development qualification e.g. MSc, MBA Chartered FCIPD

Other

Essential criteria
  • Meets the requirement for fit and proper persons

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Nursing TimesApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleDisability confident employerTimewise PartnerCare Quality Commission - Requires improvementEnei MemberArmed Forces Covenant

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Tori Birkenshaw
Job title
Project Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07535 270 409

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