Job summary
This is an exciting time to join the team at King's Health Partners (KHP) in this newly created role as Chief of Staff. The post holder will support the KHP Executive in their oversight across the full breadth of the portfolio. The post holder will take a significant leadership role in the implementation of the KHP 2030 strategy, launched in 2025 and supported through a new operating model. The role will sit on the Executive and be a member of the senior leadership team and will provide expert advice, management and organisational support to the Executive Director and the executive team. They will also manage corporate affairs and the communications and business support functions. The role will also work closely with the Director of Strategic Delivery, Health and Life Sciences at King's College London to ensure strong links to our university partner.
Main duties of the job
The role is highly autonomous. You will therefore require the highest level of interpersonal, communication and influencing skills, both within and external to the partnership, working across a complex system.
You should have a successful track record of delivering effective corporate services in a large, multifaceted environment including governance, staff management, financial management and change management.
Evidence of delivering successful strategic and operational performance management and clearly demonstrating improvement in the quality of service delivery at a strategic level; including business case preparation, service initiation, and the development and monitoring of outcome and output measures to support the KHP Impact Framework.
You should have extensive experience of delivering change and performance with and through management teams, by engaging them in the strategic direction and delivery plans, establishing clear work priorities with them, delegating effectively, ensuring a capability to deliver, monitoring performance and giving feedback.
You should have a comprehensive of the changing NHS and university environments and the challenges they face, as well as the interfaces between them.
You should have strong and inclusive leadership and interpersonal skills and authority with experience across organisational boundaries.
You will need to have extensive experience of budget management and have highly developed people management skills.
About us
King's Health Partners is an Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) where world class research, education and clinical practice are brought together for the benefit of patients. Our partnership brings together three NHS Foundation Trusts (Guy's & St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley) and a university, King's College London.
The KHP team is made up of employees from our four partner organisations and you will be required to understand both NHS and university policies and practices. We have a strong commitment to both professional development (and run an active programme for our staff to upskill), and to our core principles of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion, Patient and Public Engagement and Mind and Body integration.
Working arrangements are hybrid - due to the nature of the role, significant on site presence at our various partner sites is expected.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Programme management of the Executive teams strategic agenda
- Day to day management and organisation for the Executive Director and Executive/Senior team
- Overseeing the corporate affairs and communications function
- Overseeing the management and coordination of the Senior Leadership Team
- Managing key external collaborative relationships
- Key advisor to the Executive Director and executive team
- Working closely with the Director of Strategic Delivery, Health and Life Sciences in Kings College London, ensuring strong links are developed and maintained across all faculties of the University
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Programme management of the Executive teams strategic agenda
- Day to day management and organisation for the Executive Director and Executive/Senior team
- Overseeing the corporate affairs and communications function
- Overseeing the management and coordination of the Senior Leadership Team
- Managing key external collaborative relationships
- Key advisor to the Executive Director and executive team
- Working closely with the Director of Strategic Delivery, Health and Life Sciences in Kings College London, ensuring strong links are developed and maintained across all faculties of the University
Person Specification
Skills
Essential
- Strong organisational ability and well- developed resource and staff management skills: able to forecast, plan, develop and manage unit capability in line with business plan and organisational vision.
- Strong leadership, communication and interpersonal skills and authority; able to successfully foster and manage inter-relationships across organisational boundaries.
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of delivering change and performance with and through management teams and an understanding of the university/education sector and interfaces with the NHS, ideally, with experience of working in both the education and health sectors.
- Extensive experience of NHS regulatory processes, governance and strategic programme reporting, with experience of developing governance models, continuous business planning and programme/project management programmes resulting in positive value for money outcomes.
- Extensive experience of managing staff with highly developed people management skills and an extensive knowledge of people management policies and procedures in action.
- Demonstrates experience of competencies to analyse and synthesize budgets.
Qualifications
Essential
- Extensive professional knowledge acquired through degree and supplemented by specialist training, to doctorate or equivalent level. MBA, management qualification or equivalent experience.
- Successful track record of delivering effective corporate services in a large, multifaceted environment including staff management, financial management and change management.
Person Specification
Skills
Essential
- Strong organisational ability and well- developed resource and staff management skills: able to forecast, plan, develop and manage unit capability in line with business plan and organisational vision.
- Strong leadership, communication and interpersonal skills and authority; able to successfully foster and manage inter-relationships across organisational boundaries.
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of delivering change and performance with and through management teams and an understanding of the university/education sector and interfaces with the NHS, ideally, with experience of working in both the education and health sectors.
- Extensive experience of NHS regulatory processes, governance and strategic programme reporting, with experience of developing governance models, continuous business planning and programme/project management programmes resulting in positive value for money outcomes.
- Extensive experience of managing staff with highly developed people management skills and an extensive knowledge of people management policies and procedures in action.
- Demonstrates experience of competencies to analyse and synthesize budgets.
Qualifications
Essential
- Extensive professional knowledge acquired through degree and supplemented by specialist training, to doctorate or equivalent level. MBA, management qualification or equivalent experience.
- Successful track record of delivering effective corporate services in a large, multifaceted environment including staff management, financial management and change management.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
