Chief Executive, NHS Employers

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership: the development and effective implementation of strategic plans and goals, aligning operations with mission and vision to represent and support NHS organisations. Lead the senior leadership team and wider leadership team to set clear direction, high quality delivery and service improvement.
• Leading People: ensuring a fair, productive and high impact culture across NHS Employers teams in line with the values of the organisation, supporting individual development and collaboration across teams
• Improvement & Thought Leadership: Act as a thought leader influencing health and employment policy, fostering strategic partnerships and supporting members in improving the sourcing, management and development of their people, in the service of more equitable and healthier communities
• Policy Oversight : ensure the effectiveness of the NHS Employers Policy Board, supporting its chair, seeking its advice and maximising its impact on the work of NHS Employers and DHSC/NHS England.
• Strategic Communications: ensure the provision of effective strategic communications activity and advice across NHS Employers
• Manage complexity : meet the obligations to the DHSC whilst also maintaining the independent voice of NHS Employers; ensure the strong identity and brand of NHS Employers whilst also supporting the collective success of the NHS Confederation
• Social Partnership: lead effective partnership working with trade unions; undertake the role as the management side Chair for the national Social Partnership Forum (SPF) working collaboratively with the staff-side Chair and advising the Ministerial Chair and officials in the proper functioning of the SPF
• Operational Management: hold Directors to account for ensuring programs and teams function efficiently and that contracts and programmes are delivered. Delegate responsibilities while providing clear guidance and expectations and ensuring prioritisation, review and learning.
• Financial Accountability: With the support of the SLT and Director of Finance, lead effective financial planning and resource allocation processes to ensure the financial health and growth of NHS Employers. Ensure compliance with applicable policies and transparency in reporting, reporting performance to the Board of Trustees and relevant sub-committees.
• Business Development: Provide leadership in fundraising and investment efforts, cultivating relationships with stakeholders to secure contract income, generating margin to support independent policy work that benefits members
• Governance: Support the Group Chief Executive and Board of Trustees in the effective management and governance of the charity. Ensure effective liaison between the Group Executive Team and SLT, facilitating communication and ensuring that decisions and policies are effectively, consistently and fairly implemented
• Risk Management: Manage potential risks to the organization, developing strategies to mitigate them ensuring that NHS Employers (and the wider group) remain financially, reputationally and operationally sound
• Communication and Advocacy: advocate for employers in the NHS, representing their interests to government, regulators, trade unions, parliament, other stakeholders, the media, and the public.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain positive relationships with members, the DHSC, external partners, regulators, media, and other stakeholders to enhance impact of, and support for, NHS Employers and the needs of our members.
• Continuous Improvement and Evaluation: Ensure all programs and teams deliver and report against agreed quality standards, seeking out improvements in ways of working and delivery, maximising their impact and efficiency

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Proven leadership at executive or equivalent level in a complex environment.
• Able to define and articulate a clear direction, translating mission and vision into clearly
• understood deliverables
• Demonstrates values of inclusive leadership, committed to delivery with people,
• focused on their development and resolute in ensuring fairness, equity, diversity and
• inclusion
• A track record of effective financial stewardship
• Good understanding of people management and employment issues, including in the
• NHS, as well as key policy for the wider health and care system.
• Committed to the value and benefits of social partnership and collective bargaining
• with trade unions; able to evidence a principled and skilled approach to employment
• relations
• Ability to credibly engage with a broad range of stakeholders, skilled in balancing
• competing interests and building coalitions to improve outcomes
• Demonstrable experience of developing leadership capacity within others
• Effective communicator, advocate and ambassador, with the potential to be credible
• in high-profile settings.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Employers

Address

2

The Calls

Leeds

West Yorkshire

LS2 7JU

Employer's website

https://www.nhsemployers.org (Opens in a new tab)