Chief Executive Officer

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A major healthcare provider in Nottingham is seeking a Chief Executive to lead and shape its future direction. The ideal candidate will provide inspirational leadership, ensuring quality, safety, and performance of services across the Trust. You will need a strong track record in healthcare management, focusing on financial sustainability and operational resilience. This pivotal role offers the chance to make a meaningful impact on community health services in the region.

Qualifications

• Proven chief executive experience in healthcare.
• Strong leadership and strategic capabilities.
• Track record of partnership working across systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide visible, values-led leadership.
• Ensure quality, safety, and performance of services.
• Shape and deliver organisational strategy.

Skills

Leadership across complex systems

Financial efficiency

Quality care delivery

Experience with healthcare regulatory bodies

Job description

Could you be our next Chief Executive?

We are proud to be Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - a major provider of integrated healthcare services, delivering mental health, intellectual disability, community, forensic and offender health services across the Midlands and South Yorkshire.

With a team of more than 11,300 colleagues, our Trust exists to help people live healthier, more fulfilling lives. Our care is person‑centred and delivered where it is needed most - from secure hospitals and community hubs to GP surgeries and people's homes.

Following the planned retirement of Ifti Majid, we are seeking an exceptional leader to become our next Chief Executive. This is a pivotal opportunity to shape the Trust's future direction, accelerate improvement and provide visible, values‑led leadership at a critical time for the NHS.

As Accountable Officer, the Chief Executive will hold overall responsibility for the quality, safety and performance of our services, ensuring strong governance, financial sustainability and operational resilience. Working closely with the Chair and Board, they will lead the delivery of our strategy and provide influential leadership across local, regional and national systems, while nurturing a culture rooted in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork.

We are looking for a high‑calibre leader with a strong track record of partnership working across complex systems, delivering financial efficiency while maintaining high‑quality care, and leading organisations through regulatory scrutiny or major improvement activity. Previous Chief Executive experience in healthcare, and Board‑level experience within mental health or community services, would be advantageous.

At Nottinghamshire Healthcare, we are committed to being a pro‑equity organisation. We want our leadership to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve, and we particularly welcome applications from racially minoritised people, disabled people, LGBTQ+ people and those with lived experience of using our services.

If you are a compassionate, strategic and system‑focused leader, motivated by the opportunity to make a meaningful difference at scale, we would be delighted to hear from you.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) will provide visible, values‑led and inspirational leadership to Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. As the Trust’s Accountable Officer, they will hold overall executive responsibility for the quality, safety and performance of all services, for the stewardship of public resources, and for ensuring the Trust meets its statutory, regulatory and governance obligations.

The CEO will be responsible for shaping and delivering the organisational strategy, ensuring it reflects current national and local policy as well as the health priorities of the populations we serve. In doing so, the CEO will ensure the Trust maintains strong financial performance, operational resilience and a culture grounded in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork.

As the leader of a large and diverse organisation which provides a wide range of community, mental health, learning disability, offender health and high‑secure services, the CEO will be a key system leader locally, regionally and nationally. They will champion the needs of the populations we serve, advocate for high quality community, mental health and forensic care and discharge the specific responsibilities associated with leading a High Secure Hospital under the High Secure Psychiatric Directions 2019.

Please see the attached 'Candidate Pack for Chief Executive Officer' for the full Job Description and Person Specification and to find out more information about our Trust.

How to Apply

Key Dates

• Application deadline: 23:59 on Sunday 25 January 2026
• Stakeholder sessions (in person at a Trust location in central Nottingham): Thursday 12 February 2026.
• Interviews (in person at a Trust location in central Nottingham): Friday 13 February 2026
• The closing date for applications is 23:59 on Sunday 25 January 2026.

Applications should include:

• A covering letter explaining why the appointment interests you, how you meet the appointment criteria and what you specifically would bring to the post.
• A Curriculum Vitae (CV) with education and professional qualifications and full employment history. Please include telephone contact numbers and email addresses. The CV should include names and contact details of referees to cover the last six years (in line with NHSE guidance). References will not be taken without your permission.
• A completed Monitoring Information Form and Fit and Proper Person Form. Please note that the information you provide will be treated as confidential and is for monitoring purposes only. It will not form part of the application process.

Please send all applications to [e-mail]

Our recruitment partners are Hunter Healthcare. For an informal conversation, please contact James or Rhiannon:

James McLeod by email: [e-mail] or by phone: [phone]

Rhiannon Smith by email: [e-mail] or by phone: [phone]