Chief Executive Imperial College Health Partners

Chief Executive Imperial College Health Partners

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Imperial College Health Partners (ICHP) - the Health Innovation Network (HIN) for North West London - is recruiting an entrepreneurial Chief Executive with senior clinical leadership and medical director experience to lead our diverse partnership organisation.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a purpose-driven organisation that's creating better health outcomes and impact for our population in NW London and beyond.

Main duties of the job

As Chief Executive of ICHP, you will:

• Provide entrepreneurial leadership for the organisation and ensure that it meets its purpose by leading a programme of work on behalf of our Members and other clients.
• Provide senior clinical leadership to the organisation and the work it undertakes.
• Work closely with medical and other clinical counterparts in the NWL ICB and NHS providers and with Imperial at both a strategic and operational level to evaluate and deliver innovation to the NWL population of approximately 2.7 million.
• Explore opportunities for additional income generation from existing businesses such as Discover Now/London SDE.
• Be the external ambassador for the organisation and feel comfortable working with a range of senior stakeholders in London and nationally.
• Be a model for behaviours that reflect our organisational values of collaboration, courage, quality, and impact.
• Show a commitment to learning, self-reflection, appraisal, and development.
• Operate in an environment of significant complexity and ambiguity, taking time to understand the context of the operating environment and demonstrating good judgement.
• Be accountable for the sound financial running of ICHP, reporting to the Chair and Board.
• Ensure grant programmes are delivered according to the requirements.

About us

Imperial College Health Partners (ICHP) is a partnership organisation bringing together NHS providers of healthcare services, across our local Integrated Care System (ICS) and universities across North West London. We have been designated by NHS England as the health innovation network (HIN) for North West London.

Job responsibilities

You will be working across a highly complex set of relationships, challenges, and innovations to contribute to service transformation. You will have experience in leading teams and appetite to build your organisational leadership experience. In particular, the Chief Executive role is expected to:

• Lead the overall organisational development in terms of culture, operating model, and people of ICHP to ensure it has the capacity and capability to fulfill its purpose.
• Role model behaviours that live our organisational values of collaboration, courage, quality, and impact; and encourage similar behaviours in colleagues and line reports.
• Show a commitment to learning, self-reflection, appraisal, and development.
• Operate in an environment of significant complexity and ambiguity, taking time to understand the context of the operating environment and demonstrating good judgement.
• Be the external ambassador of the organisation and feel comfortable working across a range of senior stakeholders in London and nationally.
• Provide clinical leadership to the organisation and the work it undertakes.
• Ensure grant programmes are delivered according to the requirements.

Person Specification

Skills and Experience

• Proven experience of establishing and leading on national strategic work in relation to policy development, operations, and systems.
• Significant leadership experience of teams and/or organisations.
• Ability to prioritise workload effectively within a fast-paced and pressured environment, and work to strict deadlines using a systematic approach.
• Competent at working with quantitative and qualitative data to deliver relevant, robust, and action-oriented conclusions.
• Advanced level of working with Microsoft Office to produce reports, letters, presentations, spreadsheets and email correspondence.
• Excellent written and communication skills with the confidence to present and communicate effectively with different audiences.
• Ability to work as part of a team and establish and maintain good working relationships.
• Well-organised, able to prioritise, and flexible to emergence of issues in a rapidly changing, dynamic environment.
• Ability to build trusted stakeholder relationships and wide support networks in a political context.
• Ability to lead people with vision and integrity, demonstrating the courage to do the right thing.

Knowledge and experience

• Experience of working at a senior level in health service, local authority, academic, or related field.
• Medical qualification and experience of working in a clinical leadership role.
• Overview knowledge and understanding of the NHS, including the funding and organisational realities.
• Experience in delivering complex healthcare-related improvement projects and programmes.
• Knowledge of health research methods, and systems thinking.
• Experience in managing budgets.
• Track record of advising Boards on corporate responsibility and liability.

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.