Chief Executive Officer - Royal Free Hospital

at  Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

A voting member of the Board, the CEO of the Royal Free Hospital, will contribute fully to the development of strategy and policy as well as the delivery of statutory and corporate responsibilities across the Royal Free Hospital site and the wider group. Responsible for leading the Royal Free Hospital, ensuring the delivery of both the group and local strategy, providing the highest quality clinical care, the CEO will support, through this work, the Royal Free Group’s governing objectives to achieve optimum patient care, outcomes and experience, and efficient use of resources.
The Hospital CEO will lead a strong site executive team, each of whom has a critical role in enabling transformation across the hospital and the wider group, including local executive HR and Finance colleagues, bringing together the whole group as a cohesive, motivated, high performing site leadership team. The successful candidate will develop and ensure the visibility of leadership, deploying strategic joined up thinking across the Royal Free Hospital to motivate staff and deliver excellent patient care efficiently and effectively.
As well as their leadership role within the hospital, the CEO will hold important leadership responsibilities for developing and managing external stakeholder relationships and promoting the hospital and wider group externally within the Integrated Care System, taking the leadership role with local authorities and Trust governors for the local Place strategy and delivery.
Key Responsibilities of Job Holder
Lead the strategic and operational day to day activities of the Royal Free Hospital and its services (some of which are delivered across the wider Group and region), including fully managed networks and the hospital’s specialised (tertiary) services, ensuring they are run effectively and to budget;
Develop and mentor a cohesive site leadership team, who are visible across the Royal Free Hospital, driving a supportive and inclusive culture of accountability and improvement;
Take a Place based leadership role in developing and nurturing external stakeholder relationships with local healthcare and social care providers, local authorities and the ICS strengthening collaborative working to improve patient outcomes and experience;
Ensure the Royal Free Hospital Site complies with all quality, governance and statutory requirements;
Meaningfully contribute at Group Board to drive improvements and efficiency and deliver on the Group’s strategic objectives.
Please refer to the attached candidate brief for full details about the role.
A historic teaching hospital which has served communities in North London and its surrounds since its foundation in 1828, the Royal Free London combines world class medical expertise with local and friendly care, as it strives to tackle health inequalities in this vibrant part of the capital.
Operating across three hospital sites, the Royal Free Group is one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country, treating approximately 1.6m patients every year. With a strong reputation for innovation, high performance and partnership-building, the Trust closely collaborates with partners across the local provider landscape, as well as performing a significant role within UCL Partners, the UCL Health Alliance, and in the North Central London ICS.
Royal Free London’s mission is to be world class in innovative healthcare services, ground-breaking clinical research, and future-focused teaching, ultimately combining world-leading expertise with local care. We are now looking for a talented executive leader to be responsible for the development of the Royal Free’s strategy, its people, its partnerships, its services and ways of working, and for the delivery of its services at the Royal Free Hospital site in Hampstead.
For full details about the role and responsibilities, please see the attached Candidate Information Pack.
The pack includes job summary, person specification, application and selection process, and contact details.
The MBS Group are acting as The Royal Free’s advisors on this appointment. To apply, please send a covering letter, a CV, and a completed Equality Monitoring Form to royalfreelondon@thembsgroup.co.uk by noon on Friday 10th May 2024

Please refer the Job description for details