Chief Operating Officer | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST; City Of London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A major healthcare trust in London is seeking a Chief Operating Officer to lead service delivery and maintain high standards of treatment. The role emphasizes leadership within a collaborative culture, and candidates should demonstrate extensive healthcare experience. The trust is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce, offering career development and flexible working options. Applications close on November 3, 2025.

Benefits

Career development

Flexible working

Wellbeing programs

Staff recognition scheme

Cycle to Work scheme

Membership options for onsite leisure facilities

Qualifications

• Experience in leadership roles within healthcare organizations is essential.
• Proven track record of maintaining high standards in treatment and care.
• Ability to lead culture change across an organization.

Responsibilities

• Ensure service and performance delivery across the trust.
• Lead the organization to maintain high treatment standards.
• Promote a positive culture in the workforce.

Job description

Overview

We are one of the largest NHS trusts in the country – providing acute and specialist care to over 1.3 million people each year in central and north London and beyond. With a global reputation for ground-breaking research and innovation as well as excellence in education, we offer huge expertise across a wide range of clinical specialties. We employ almost 16,000 staff and have income of £1.7bn.

Together with Imperial College London and two other NHS trusts, we form one of six academic health science centres in the UK – focused on translating research into better patient care. We also host one of 20 National Institute for Health Research biomedical research centres in partnership with Imperial College London.

We are proud of our achievements, which include one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS, maintaining our ‘outstanding’ rating for both our maternity units following a re-inspection by the CQC, meeting the majority of our operational targets, improving our NHS staff survey results for the third year in a row and progress on a range of major development programmes.

Our mission is to be a key partner in our local health system and to drive health and healthcare innovation, delivering outstanding care, education and research with local, national and worldwide impact.

Responsibilities

• This is a vitally important leadership role at the heart of the trust, working with executive colleagues to ensure service and performance delivery.
• The Chief Operating Officer will ensure we continue to deliver the highest standards of treatment and care effectively and safely.
• The new Chief Operating Officer will play a visible role in leading our positive culture.
• Our values – to be kind, aspirational, expert and collaborative – are central to the way in which we all operate and we are committed to building a genuinely fair and inclusive organisation for our staff, patients and communities.

Qualifications and requirements

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews, please view the candidate brief and job description attached.

How to apply

The preferred method of application is online at www.odgers.com/93899. If you are unable to apply online please email [e-mail].

Any postal applications should be sent direct to Donna Fendick at Odgers, 20 Cannon Street, London, EC4M 6XD. Please email: [e-mail]

Benefits and equal opportunities

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews, please view the candidate brief and job description attached.

This advert closes on Monday 3 Nov 2025