Chief Executive Officer

Alumni Global; England; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A major healthcare provider in South West London is seeking a Group Chief Executive to lead their transformative efforts. The candidate should have significant executive experience in a complex environment and a strong track record in the NHS. This role involves driving service quality and operational effectiveness while promoting an inclusive culture. You will report to the Group Chair and work closely with various stakeholders to ensure high standards of care and organizational success.

Qualifications

• Extensive senior executive experience in a large, complex organization.
• Proven track record as a Chief Executive in the NHS.
• Experience in delivering operational and financial performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Group's operating model for high-quality care.
• Drive service transformation and improve clinical outcomes.
• Manage performance and recovery standards in urgent care.

Skills

Strategic clarity

Visible leadership

Financial management

Change management

Inclusive leadership

Job description

The St George’s, Epsom and St Helier Hospitals Group (gesh) is one of the largest and most complex healthcare providers in the country, serving a population of approximately 3.5 million across South West London and Surrey. Formed as a strategic partnership between St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust, the Group combines world-class specialist services with vital district general hospital care. With a workforce of over 18,000 dedicated staff, gesh is committed to delivering safe, high-quality and compassionate care, reducing health inequalities, and improving outcomes for the diverse communities they serve.

They are at a pivotal point in moving to a mature Group operating model, reshaping services across sites, and strengthening research, education, digital and estates.

The role

Gesh are now seeking an outstanding Group Chief Executive to lead the next phase of their development. Reporting to the Group Chair, Sir Mark Lowcock, you will set a clear direction, build momentum and deliver measurable improvements in quality, access, safety, experience and financial sustainability. You will champion an inclusive, compassionate and high‑performing culture where colleagues feel valued, trusted and able to do their best work.

What you’ll lead

• A Group operating model that aligns governance and creates the conditions for consistent, high‑quality care across sites.
• Service transformation to design and deliver networked pathways and clinical configurations that improve outcomes and reduce unwarranted variation.
• Performance and flow which recovers standards in urgent and emergency care, RTT, long waits, diagnostics and cancer, with transparent trajectories and benefits tracked to patients and staff.
• Quality and safety initiatives that strengthen quality governance, incident learning and maternity services and embed continuous improvement and psychological safety.
• People and culture that is designed to continue to improve NHS Staff Survey outcomes, develop leadership capacity and capability, and make equality, diversity and inclusion integral to every decision.
• Finance and value to deliver a credible medium‑term plan, grip agency spend and productivity, and reinvest benefits where they make the biggest difference to patients and communities.
• Digital, estates and research initiatives to deliver major digital and estates programmes and deepen partnerships with our university and system colleagues.

About you

You are a seasoned leader who brings very senior executive experience in a large, complex and ideally multi-site organisation, preferably with a successful track record as a proven Chief Executive in the NHS, and experience of delivering strong operational and financial performance. You combine strategic clarity with visible, empowering leadership and you hold yourself and others to account with fairness and candour. You build strong executive teams, work well with Non‑Executive colleagues, and engage confidently with regulators, system partners, staff, Governors, patients and elected representatives. You bring:

• A record of delivering large‑scale change across organisational boundaries and improving quality, access and value.
• Sound financial and operational grip, with the judgement to balance safety, performance and affordability.
• Inclusive, values‑driven leadership, with tangible improvements in staff experience and EDI.
• The ability to create a compelling story of change and take people with you, both inside the Group and across the wider system.

This is a unique opportunity to contribute to the leadership and governance of a majorhospitals group delivering high-quality, inclusive healthcare services to a diversepopulation across South West London, Surrey and beyond.

Commitment to inclusion

Gesh want their leadership to reflect the rich diversity of the communities they serve. They warmly encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and lived experience, including those who are under‑represented at Board level. They will make reasonable adjustments throughout the process and consider flexible arrangements where possible.

For an informal confidential conversation about the role, please contact Frank McKenna, Global Managing Director ([e-mail]) or Thomas Patterson, UK Managing Director ([e-mail]).

Further details around gesh and the role can be found via the following link: www.alumniglobal.com/job/gesh-ceo