Deputy Chief Executive Officer – Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Job Description
Job title: Deputy Chief Executive Officer – Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Company: Odgers Berndtson
Job description: Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) is an internationally renowned organisation. We provide services as a local hospital for people in Cambridge, South and East Cambridgeshire, and as a specialist hospital for a much wider population. As an academic medical centre, we work across 75 medical and surgical specialties, with corporate and support teams – and health, care, academic and industry partners – to deliver care, learning and research. Our location in Cambridge, as part of an innovation ecosystem, unlocks huge opportunity to go further. As the largest centre of life science and medical research in Europe, we aspire to continue developing the cross industry partnerships that further improve outcomes for patients while powering economic growth. Our workforce is a community of twelve thousand people and together with our partners, we are passionate about delivering expert care for our patients and improving people’s lives.
As the NHS continues to face enormous pressure, we face our own set of challenges and opportunities. The creation of this role of Deputy Chief Executive Officer is one of a number of steps we are taking to face the next phase in our development. Alongside deputising for the Chief Executive, the postholder will lead a diverse and dynamic portfolio of work both within the Trust and across the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough health and care system and the East of England. Alongside leading on cross-cutting internal programmes, the successful candidate will be the executive lead for and represent the trust in external partnerships with the Integrated Care System, and wider regional networks and forums, and lead on the trust’s performance and business intelligence functions.
This is a unique leadership opportunity in a progressive and pioneering organisation and the successful candidate will bring substantial senior leadership experience, alongside the ability to influence and impact change in large and complex environments. They will be a strategic thinker with highly developed influencing, persuasion and negotiation skills, with the ability to bring about change and develop services in a multi-stakeholder environment and with high levels of self-awareness.
We value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We invite applications from all sections of the community regardless of race, religion, disability, gender, sexual orientation or age.
Closing date for applications – Wednesday 7th February 2024
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Location: United Kingdom