Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Chief Executive - Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

We are excited by the future potential for our organisation. Our new Chief Executive will provide leadership for our journey. The successful candidate will drive the delivery of our vision, inspiring transformation and consolidating the progress we have made. With considerable leadership experience, they will bring vision, and ambition together with proven capability to embrace the challenges we face. Ultimately, our new CEO must be able to motivate and inspire our teams to be the best they can be, bringing our organisation together to innovate, improve, transform and deliver the very highest standards of care to our patients and communities.

Main duties of the job

We have a compelling vision for the future that is focused on delivering the very best clinical outcomes. We are driven by our purpose to advance health and wellbeing as local, national and international leaders in clinical care, education, research and innovation. We challenge ourselves to push the boundaries to pioneer new approaches and make new discoveries that will advance clinical outcomes. From translational research and robotics through to the use of data and AI, we seek to focus the full breadth of our capability on delivering improvement.

About us

This is an outstanding opportunity to lead an innovative and progressive university teaching hospital with a national and international reputation.Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT) is an integrated healthcare organisation providing a full range of adult and children's specialist, elective, emergency and local community services. The Trust is among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts and comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care and clinical excellence. With over 23,600 staff, we are a leading centre of clinical research with a long history of innovation and medical firsts, enabling us to provide the latest and most advanced treatments. Together with our partners inKing's Health Partners, we form 1 of the UK's 8 Academic Health Science Centres. Our world famous teaching hospitals train the doctors, nurses and healthcare professionals of the future.GKT School of Medical Educationis our medical school, run jointly withKing's College LondonandKing's College Hospital.

Date posted

10 January 2025

Pay scheme

Very senior manager (VSM)

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

196-SMT1669

Job locations

Guy's & St. Thomas'

London

SE1 9RT

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the candidate brief for the detailed job description and main responsibilities of the role.

If you are excited by this opportunity and feel you have the professional and personal qualities to excel as our new Chief Executive, please see the candidate brief below containing application instructions, or contact us atdonna.fendick@odgersberndtson.com quoting the reference 93051.

The closing date for applications is Sunday 16th February 2025.

If you are unable to apply online please email:93051@odgersberndtson.com

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the candidate brief for the detailed job description and main responsibilities of the role.

The closing date for applications is Sunday 16th February 2025.

If you are unable to apply online please email:93051@odgersberndtson.com

Person Specification

Knowledge

Essential

Educated to degree level or with equivalent professional qualifications or equivalent experience.
Evidence of relevant continuous professional development.
Postgraduate management qualification is desirable.

Experience

Essential

Substantial senior leadership experience gained at board level in an organisation of scale and complexity.
Experience of developing and delivering successful organisational strategies in a context of complex stakeholder engagement
Experience of translating organisation strategy and vision into successful operational objectives and plans

Skills

Essential

Needs to be an inspiring, compassionate, and inclusive leader with vision and high emotional intelligence
Proven team building skills with the ability to deliver challenging agendas through effective delegation and a range of leadership styles
Ability to communicate ideas and to generate action and delivery through others
Please see Candidate Brief for full role requirements

Person Specification

Knowledge

Essential

Educated to degree level or with equivalent professional qualifications or equivalent experience.
Evidence of relevant continuous professional development.
Postgraduate management qualification is desirable.

Experience

Essential

Substantial senior leadership experience gained at board level in an organisation of scale and complexity.
Experience of developing and delivering successful organisational strategies in a context of complex stakeholder engagement
Experience of translating organisation strategy and vision into successful operational objectives and plans

Skills

Essential

Needs to be an inspiring, compassionate, and inclusive leader with vision and high emotional intelligence
Proven team building skills with the ability to deliver challenging agendas through effective delegation and a range of leadership styles
Ability to communicate ideas and to generate action and delivery through others
Please see Candidate Brief for full role requirements

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.