Chief Executive Officer Full Time

As one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers, Barts Health is embarking on an era defining period of change through our collaboration with Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust. Our new Group will be one of Europe’s largest healthcare providers, and as Chief Executive of Newham Hospital and Member of the Group Executive, you will play a significant role in securing our successful future.

A busy district general hospital, we provide the diverse and fast growing population of Newham and the surrounding areas with a full range of services including an A&E department, a dedicated stroke unit, one of the largest maternity units in the UK, and our state-of-the-art Rainbow Centre providing services to children and young people. Newham Hospital is also home to the Gateway Surgical Centre, which delivers some of the most innovative and modern diagnostic and surgical facilities available globally. We are on a sustained and ambitious journey of improvement, and while our CQC rating of ‘requires improvement’, offers promising signs of encouragement with a Good rating for Urgent and Emergency Services, Surgery, and Services for children and young people, we know there is still much to do, for instance within maternity care.

The role we play outside of the four walls of the hospital is critical, and we believe in the importance of operating as an anchor institution in our community.

As Chief Executive Officer for Newham Hospital you will report to the newly appointed Group Chief Executive, serve as a member of the Group Executive and provide leadership to the Hospital Executive Team. You will take forward our workforce and strategy, delivering on our vision for excellence and innovation and providing safe and compassionate care to the people of East London and beyond. Alongside providing visible and inclusive leadership to the hospitals, you will play a corporate role across our group and contribute to the wider place based system leadership across the London Borough of Newham, developing relationships with local leaders.

We are searching for a talented and ambitious leader to join us. You will be committed to valuing our differences and fully advocating, cultivating and supporting an inclusive working environment and living by our WeCare values. You will utilise strategic vision to articulate a compelling vision for our exciting new era, empowering our committed and talented staff on this journey. You are likely to be an aspirant Chief Executive with a track record of success in an NHS Board level role, showcasing how you have previously led transformational change, increased staff engagement and delivered operational and financial performance in a complex healthcare setting.

Whether your experience has been gained in medical, clinical, operational, corporate or system leadership, if your ambition matches ours, we would like to hear from you.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which ourWeCarevalues and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by ourWeCarevalues and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at a senior management level.

Strategic Leadership

• Develop a cohesive hospital-based leadership team, including nursing, medical and operations, and develop clear work plans for assurance and improvement within the hospital.
• Lead the shaping and development of innovative models of integrated care with external multi-agency partners. Maximise opportunities for innovation to provide seamless and high-quality patient care across acute and out-of-hospital services.
• Creation and leadership of an inclusive, positive and engaging work environment which enables staff to flourish and be the best they can be to deliver good outcomes for patients.
• Develop supporting groups which include Clinical Board and Trust wide representation at hospital executive board meetings and day to day clinical and operational issues.
• Ensure the hospital executive team has a presence within the hospital and is known as being a strong positive representation of Barts Health leadership, vision and values
• Develop and a strong and effective quality improvement programme throughout the hospital using the Barts Health WeImprove approach. Support and collectively lead all improvement programmes as required.
• Promote and facilitate matrix and system working leveraging the benefits of the group model and provider collaboration

Hospital Responsibilities

• Responsible for all hospital operational teams and ensure all teams support the successful delivery of day-to-day management of the hospital services to maximise patient flow.
• Develop and nurture strong partnerships working with support services including Estates, Facilities, HR, Finance and IT to ensure the hospital always functions at its best.
• Lead the staff engagement programme for the hospital to enable and ensure consistent, clear, concise regular staff communication is used as opportunity to engage staff including Clinical Board involvement to the appropriate standard, consistently looking for opportunities to communicate with all staff and to create, drive and deliver suitable formal staff briefings.
• Ensure all hospital orientated information is reported as required both internally and externally.

Strategic Development

• Work as a dynamic, innovative leader using a positive, strong influencing style to ensure the hospital is run effectively and to budget – ensuring that the hospital and Barts Health are portrayed in a positive, collaborative manner.
• Enhance wider local health system stakeholder communication and engagement in the development of the strategic direction for hospital based and out-of-hospital care.
• Lead hospital services in the Trust business planning cycle.
• Act as the place-based leader for the Trust within Tower Hamlets borough. Develop and maintain relationships with local leaders (e.g., MPs and local councillors), as well as local partners including the Local Authority, CCG and ICS.
• Represent the Trust at a local level including CCG, Local Authority, Health and Wellbeing, Healthwatch meetings and other appropriate meetings.
• Contribute to Trust wide programmes of work and take the lead on specific areas as requested by the Trust Board.
• Work with key stakeholders, including QMUL and DHSC, to progress the development of the Whitechapel life sciences campus.
• Work with Group Executive Colleagues to ensure delivery of the group surgical strategy.

Operational and Performance

• Ensure the hospital delivers quality, operational, financial and workforce performance against agreed plans.
• Use best practice models and intelligence, such as GIRFT and Model Hospital Portal, to drive improvement in productivity across all operational and clinical functions.
• Regularly review Quality and Safety, Governance and Risk, Operational Performance and other statutory and mandatory key performance indicators at hospital level to ensure all areas are performing and monitored.
• Work with colleagues within the Trust to assure all reporting is accurate and timely and information is issued regularly and properly to enable continued learning and improvement for patient outcomes.
• Take opportunities to review performance and triangulate information produced through visits to operational areas, observing behaviours, and undertaking honest, supportive and open discussions with staff.
• Review performance at hospital level to ensure consistent and good performance happens, and where there are performance gaps or failures, lead, support and direct hospital teams to undertake remedial action required in a timely manner.
• Seek, share and drive opportunities with the Trust which improve service delivery and performance to the highest level possible thus contributing to the overall success of Barts Health.
• Accountable for services within the Trust where Royal London and/or Mile End Hospital is the lead hospital
• Work across the group and with Hospital CEOs to ensure High Cost Low Volume (HVLC) and other clinical pathways work effectively, in the interest of patients and wider group objectives.
• Provide leadership at hospital and local system level to ensure the Urgent and Emergency and Urgent Care pathways work effectively and optimise patient flow and discharge.
• Participate in the Hospital Director on call rota as required.

Quality and Clinical

• Ensure effective clinical governance and surveillance structures are in place built on a robust and intelligent ward to board reporting framework.
• Develop a culture of continuous quality improvement based on a clear vision for leading the hospital to and Outstanding CQC assessment.
• With the Hospital Medical Director and Hospital Director of Nursing and other Trust senior leaders seek out opportunities to challenge poor practice in all areas including clinical quality, patient experience and operational ineffectiveness and put remedial actions in place to ensure and evidence improvement and demonstrate that quality and safety are of the utmost priority in the daily operation of the hospital
• Forge and cultivate highly effective relationships and strong partnership working with Clinical Boards and Clinical Networks.
• Promote multidisciplinary clinical practice to enhance patient care and service transformation

Governance

• Responsible for corporate governance across the hospital – ensure hospital assurance arrangements are robust and fit for purpose. Contribute to the corporate assurance agenda by representing the hospital at assurance meetings and discussions
• As the lead executive director for the hospital, establish effective relationships and assurance systems with key regulatory bodies including discharge responsibilities to ensure full compliance with CQC registration requirements and wider patient safety agenda, for example, NHS England and NHS Improvement, CCGs and NHS Resolution
• Assure the Group Executive Board of Barts Health to the continued delivery of site specific and Trust wide commitments made in the Improvement Plan

Equality and Diversity

• Lead on developing a fair and inclusive culture that ensures equity for our staff and service users
• Be a visible champion of the Trust’s inclusion strategy (WeBelong) at both a site and group level, promoting a culturally intelligent leadership style.
• Actively ensure that the organisation is meeting its statutory responsibilities in respect of equality and diversity.

Personal and Staff Development

• All staff are expected to participate in individual performance management processes and reviews. Senior leaders are expected to encourage and develop a high performance culture individually, with their teams and across the organisation.

How to apply

Alumni is acting as an employment agency advisor to Barts Health NHS Trust on this appointment.

Candidates should apply for this role through: www.alumniglobal.com/bartshealth/