Person specification
About the role
The Chief Executive will provide outstanding leadership to the Trust, working with the Chair, Board, Executive Team, colleagues, patients, families, carers, partners and communities to deliver the Trust’s vision and strategic priorities.
This is a pivotal leadership role at a time of significant opportunity and transformation across health and social care. The successful candidate will bring a strong commitment to improving the lives of people who use mental health, learning disability, autism and physical health services, tackling health inequalities and ensuring that people receive safe, compassionate, high-quality care.
We are seeking a values-driven, inclusive and inspirational leader who can combine strategic ambition with a highly visible and authentic leadership style.
You will be someone who develops people, builds strong teams and creates the conditions in which colleagues can thrive, innovate and deliver their very best work.
You will lead the Trust’s transformation towards a new model of care, embedding a culture of continuous learning and improvement and ensuring that our resources, systems and ways of working are aligned to our Quadruple Aim mission.
As a senior leader within the NHS and wider health and care system, you will also play a significant role in shaping integrated approaches to improving health and wellbeing across our communities. You will build trusted relationships across organisational boundaries and use your influence, judgement and political acumen to achieve better outcomes for patients and communities.
Person specification
- Board-level role in a complex NHS or health and care organisation.
- A visible, authentic and values-led leadership style.
- Demonstrable ability to inspire confidence, create followership and lead through complexity and change.
- High levels of emotional intelligence, self-awareness and personal integrity.
- Evidence of leading with compassion while maintaining clear accountability and high performance.
- Demonstrable commitment to equality, diversity, inclusion and social justice.
Ability to build a culture of openness, trust, learning and psychological safety.
- Proven track record of developing high-performing Executive Teams and senior leadership teams.
- Evidence of developing leadership capability and succession across an organisation.
- Experience of successfully leading cultural change.
- Demonstrable commitment to talent development and creating opportunities for people from diverse backgrounds.
- Experience of engaging and empowering staff to contribute to organisational improvement.
- Understanding of effective co-production and meaningful involvement of patients, families, carers and communities.
- Significant experience of leading large-scale organisational transformation and improvement.
- A strong understanding of improvement science, quality improvement or comparable systematic approaches to organisational learning.
- Demonstrable evidence of delivering sustained improvements in quality, outcomes, productivity or patient experience.
- Experience of creating an improvement culture in which staff are empowered to identify and solve problems.
- Ability to translate strategic ambition into practical programmes of change with measurable outcomes.
- Experience of leading transformation while maintaining safe and effective day-to-day services.
- Deep understanding of the NHS and wider health and social care environment.
- Significant understanding of mental health, learning disability and/or autism services and the needs of the populations they serve.
- Ability to develop and communicate a compelling strategic vision.
- Experience of leading an organisation through significant change, uncertainty and complexity.
- Strong understanding of population health, health inequalities and the wider determinants of health.
- Ability to balance short-term operational pressures with long-term strategic transformation.
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to make sound judgements based on complex and sometimes incomplete information.
- Significant experience of working successfully across organisational boundaries.
- Proven ability to build and sustain effective relationships with senior stakeholders.
- Strong influencing, negotiating and political skills.
- Gravitas and credibility with Boards, clinicians, professional leaders, regulators, politicians and system partners.
- Ability to operate effectively in environments where there are competing priorities, interests and perspectives.
- Evidence of achieving outcomes through collaboration and influence rather than hierarchy alone.
- Experience of developing integrated or partnership approaches to health and care.
- Strong understanding of corporate, clinical and organisational governance.
- Experience of working effectively with a Board and Chair.
- Significant experience of financial and resource management at organisational level.
- Ability to understand complex financial, operational, workforce and performance information and use it to drive decisions.
- Experience of managing significant organisational risk.
- Strong understanding of regulatory and accountability requirements within the NHS.
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