Non-Executive Directors, St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group

St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group; Epsom; On-site; GBP 17,000 - 22,000; Part time

Job summary

St George’s, Epsom and St Helier Hospitals Group is seeking two Non-Executive Directors to enhance governance and leadership. This role offers a chance to influence healthcare delivery for 3.5 million people. Candidates should possess strong financial or clinical leadership backgrounds and a commitment to diversity.

Qualifications

• Recent Board-level experience in large organizations.
• Strong commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Responsibilities

• Drive strategy, governance, and oversight.
• Support delivery of the five-year strategy.
• Promote high standards of integrity and transparency.

Skills

Governance

Leadership

Financial Management

Clinical Leadership

Education

ACA or equivalent qualification

Job description

Non-Executive Directors, St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group

St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group,

Non-Executive Directors

United Kingdom

Dear Candidate

Thank you for your interest in becoming a Non-Executive Director at the St George’s, Epsom and St Helier Hospitals Group (gesh). This is a unique and important opportunity to help shape the future of healthcare across South West London and Surrey.

As one of the largest and most complex providers of NHS services in the country, gesh plays a vital role in the health and wellbeing of the 3.5 million people we serve. We deliver both specialist tertiary services and core hospital-based care, through a committed workforce of over 17,000 staff, working across two major NHS Trusts – St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust.

We are now looking to appoint two exceptional individuals as Non-Executive Directors. One will bring senior financial leadership experience, ideally from within government departments, agencies, or large public bodies. The second will bring a clinical leadership and management background, from medicine, nursing, midwifery, allied health professions or clinical academia. Whilst we operate under a group model, including at board level, we remain separate trusts and appointments are made to the individual boards. At least one of these roles will be an appointment to both Boards.

These are high-profile and rewarding roles, offering you the chance to drive our, strategy, governance and oversight to ensure we continue to deliver safe, high-quality, and inclusive care. You will help us respond to our challenges, drive improvements, and support the delivery of our five-year strategy, "Outstanding Care, Together 2023–2028". You will also help us ensure we remain a great place to work for our staff and a trusted partner in the South West London and Surrey Heartlands ICS.

We are strongly committed to diversity and inclusion, and we encourage applicants from all backgrounds – particularly those who are currently underrepresented at Board level in the NHS. We are especially keen to meet candidates who can strengthen visible and cognitive diversity on our Board. If you are passionate about patient care, bring strong governance and leadership credentials, and are committed to helping reduce health inequalities in the communities we serve, we would be delighted to hear from you.

If these opportunities interest you, please contact our search partners at Alumni Global for an initial, confidential discussion. Frank McKenna, Global Managing Director, and Tom Patterson, Managing Director for Healthcare, would be pleased to speak with you.

Thank you once again for your interest in gesh.

Sir Mark Lowcock
Chair
St George’s, Epsom and St Helier Hospitals Group

About the Trusts

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust (ESTH)provides a range of acute hospital and medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across south west London and north east Surrey and beyond. In addition, ESTH provides specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering Surrey and parts of Sussex and Hampshire, and hosts the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC) partnership. The Trust’s main commissioners are South West London Integrated Care Board and Surrey Heartlands Integrated Care Board. It also has a sizable specialist service contract with NHS England in relation to renal services, and we have exciting plans to improve how we deliver acute inpatient renal services in South West London and Surrey by integrating them into a new joint renal unit on the St George’s hospital site.

ESTH’s two main acute sites are St Helier Hospital in the London Borough of Sutton, within the South West London Integrated Care System, and Epsom Hospital in Surrey, within the Surrey Heartlands Integrated Care System. The Trust also provides out‐reach services at a number of more locally‐based care centres and is moving to increasingly integrated models of care working with local community, primary, and other service providers.

ESTH is the host for the delivery of community health services across both of its local place-based communities of Surrey Downs and Sutton. Our community contracts are delivered through contractual joint ventures and alliance agreements (Surrey Downs in partnership with the 3 local GP Federations and the community trust and Sutton in partnership with the local GP Federation, local authority and mental health trust). Discharging its host responsibilities to a high standard and working in partnership to transform pathways across hospital and community settings is a key priority for the future.

The Trust is also committed to the Building Your Future Hospital Programme, which will see the construction of a new, state-of-the-art Specialist Emergency Care Hospital in Sutton. This will bring together A&E, critical care, acute medicine, emergency surgery, inpatient paediatrics, and births in hospital on our Sutton site, meaning that clinical expertise, experience and resource will be in one place, 24/7, improving patient safety, sustainability and staffing levels. This Programme will also provide the means to significantly improve existing infrastructure at both Epsom and St Helier hospitals.

ESTH values

“Above all we value RESPECT”

It helps ESTH to live our behaviours:

So we can achieve our mission statement:outstanding care, together.

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

With over 10,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, St George’s is the largest healthcare provider in South West London and one of the biggest and busiest hospital Trusts in London. It provides services out of two main hospital sites, St George’s Hospital in Tooting and Queen Mary’s Hospital in Roehampton, as well as health centres, GP surgeries, schools, and people’s homes.

St George’s Hospital is one of four major trauma centres in London, and home to hyper acute stroke and heart attack centres. It is a major centre for cancer services, and one of the largest centres for cancer surgery and chemotherapy in the capital. St George’s is also one of biggest children’s hospitals, including being home to one of only four paediatric trauma units in London. In addition, St George’s is a major centre for neurosciences, offering patients innovative new treatments such as the country’s first 24/7 mechanical thrombectomy service. Its clinical teams also have growing influence in research, with more clinical trials undertaken than ever before. They are also part of the South London Cardiac and Stroke Network and the South West London and Surrey Trauma Network, for which St George’s Hospital is the designated heart attack centre, hyper-acute stroke unit and major trauma centre.

St George’s serves a population of 1.3 million across South West London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.

The main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting – one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with City St George’s, University of London, whose School of Health and Medical Sciences trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. The creation of the newly-merged City St George’s creates significant opportunities for a new strategic partnership between the Trust and the University.

St George’s values and behaviours

To achieve our vision of providing outstanding care for our patients, staff and the communities St George’s serve, we need to keep patients at the heart of everything that we do – our values are designed to inspire staff to achieve this. All staff are expected to live our values of being Excellent, Kind, Responsible & Respectful, and for staff to behave in ways that reflect these values.

Board values, behaviours and standards

All NEDs should demonstrate a commitment to the Trust’s values and standards of behaviour

Ensure the Trust promotes equality and diversity for its patients, staff, and other stakeholders

Promote and safeguard the reputation of the Trust

Uphold the highest standards of integrity and probity, adhering to the Nolan Principles and the Trust values

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 17,000 dedicated staff, gesh is committed to delivering safe, high-quality and compassionate care, reducing health inequalities, and improving outcomes for the diverse communities we serve.

We are now seeking two outstanding individuals to join our Board of Directors as Non-Executive Directors (NEDs). Both of these roles will be appointed to the Board of St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and under our 'NED in Common' approach, at least one of these appointment, and potentially both, will also serve on the Board of Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to the leadership and governance of a major hospitals group delivering high-quality, inclusive healthcare services to a diverse population across South West London, Surrey and beyond.

Non-Executive Director – Finance Background

For this role, we are particularly seeking candidates with a senior financial leadership and management background who ideally hold an ACA or equivalent qualification. Candidates who have experience working in a senior finance role at Board level within central government departments, agencies or large public sector organisations would be particularly welcome.

Non-Executive Director – Clinical Leadership Background

We are also seeking to appoint a Non-Executive Director with a strong clinical leadership and management background. This could include senior leaders from medical, nursing, midwifery, allied health professions or clinical academia who have operated at Board level and can bring insights into the management of complex hospital-based care, champion clinical quality and safety, support the delivery of transformational change across the care pathways, and assist the Board in seeking assurance on the safety and quality of the services we provide.

Both Trusts are committed to building Boards that reflects the communities we serve. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, particularly those groups who are underrepresented on our Boards including women, individuals from Black and minority ethnic communities, disabled individuals and people with experience relevant to the NHS and communities we serve . We are especially keen to meet candidates who can strengthen visible and cognitive diversity on our Board.

What We’re Looking For

Successful candidates will have recent Board-level experience in large and complex organisations, a strong commitment to our values, and the ability to provide strategic challenge and seek assurance. Non-Executive Directors are expected to bring independent judgement, promote high standards of integrity and transparency, and actively contribute to a positive and inclusive organisational culture.

Time Commitment and Remuneration

This role requires a commitment of up to 4 days per month. The appointment is for an initial term of up to three years, renewable subject to performance. Candidates who are appointed as NEDs in Common across the gesh Group will receive remuneration of £22,000 per annum. Remuneration for appointment as a NED at St George’s only is £17,000pa.

How to Apply

If you would like to be considered for one of these appointments, please contact Alumni Global, our appointed search partner. For a confidential discussion, please contact Frank McKenna, Global Managing Director, Thomas Patterson, Managing Director for Healthcare or Beth Stickney, Principal Researcher, details of which can be found at the bottom of this microsite.

• A covering letter highlighting the aspects of the job description and gesh that particularly attract you to the post (Microsoft Word document)

• Contact details for three referees, these will not be contacted without your permission. (References should validate a minimum period of six years employment)

• A completed Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form (which you will be redirected to once you have submitted your application) *

Right to work checks

If you are successfully shortlisted, our partner, Yoti, will contact you to complete an online right to work check. This is a quick and secure process, ensuring that all necessary legal requirements are met before proceeding further in the recruitment process.

Monitoring

One of Alumni Global’s and gesh's objectives is to ensure that its workforce is reflective of the local community and therefore we actively encourage applications from under-represented groups. So that we can successfully achieve these aims, while it is not mandatory we would encourage every applicant to complete the “Equal Opportunities Monitoring form” so that we can measure the effectiveness of our efforts. The Recruiting Manager does not have access to the Monitoring Information Sections of the application form at any stage of the process and the information provided will be kept entirely confidential.

For a confidential discussion on this role please contact:

Frank McKenna, Global Managing Director or Beth Stickney, Principal Researcher on [phone]

Candidate adjustment

If you require any reasonable adjustments to be made as part of the recruitment process please can you advise us so that we can ensure this is accommodated.

Closing date: 30th June 2025

Stakeholder sessions: TBC

Final interviews: TBC

Please ensure you have made a note of the final interview date(s). We recommend that you bookmark this microsite, as any potential updates regarding the role will be posted online.

Please take note of the reference number found under section “How to apply”. This is needed for us to process any application.

For a confidential discussion on this role pleasecontact: