Leadership Expectations

• Build capability, followership, and energy
• Grow the leadership capacity of care groups
• Devolve real decision-making
• Create conditions for operational and clinical leaders to take accountability for improvement
• Implement a performance framework that informs and empowers rather than simply polices
• Bring an outward, horizon-scanning perspective and curiosity around innovation and adaptation
• Anticipate how shifts in demand, technology, workforce, and the wider system will shape children's healthcare
• Position GOSH to meet future challenges rather than react to them
• Navigate the tension between a growing national emphasis on community-based care and GOSH's role as a specialist tertiary children's hospital

Candidate Profile

We are looking for an accomplished, credible, and values-led operational leader with significant senior management experience in an NHS Trust, and a track record of leading improvement and change in operational health services of real complexity, through cross-organisational working, under pressure. You will bring:

• Demonstrable success in developing clinical operations leadership teams
• The ability to sustain improvement through periods of significant disruption, such as a major capital project
• Strong operational grip and a determination to deliver the best possible services for patients
• A nuanced leadership style that flexes to circumstance
• Leadership through influence, partnership, and collaboration with world-class colleagues in clinical specialties and across the organisation

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

GOSH is committed to recruiting the best person for the job, based solely on their ability and individual merit as measured against the criteria for the role; through a process that is fair, open, consistent, and free from bias and discrimination.

We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture where all staff are valued, respected, and acknowledged. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, disability status, or length of time spent unemployed.

We particularly welcome applications from BAME communities, people with disabilities and/or long-term health conditions, and LGBT+ community members.

We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants and employees are treated fairly and consistently. We are proud to be accredited as a Disability Confident Employer, a member of Business Disability Forum, and a Stonewall Diversity Champion.

We have active and Executive supported BAME, LGBT+ and Allies, Disability and Long-Term Health Conditions, and Women’s staff networks. Staff networks are employee-led groups formed around interests, issues, and a common bond or background. Staff network members create a positive and inclusive work environment at Great Ormond Street Hospital by actively contributing to the Trust’s mission, values, and efforts specific to inclusion. All of our staff networks are open to any employee.

Contact Information

For further details / informal visits, contact:

• Name: The MBS Group
• Job title: Recruitment Partner
• Email address: GOSH@thembsgroup.co.uk