Overview
Job summary
The CEO will provide strategic leadership to a large and complex hospital Trust providing specialist (examples; Childrens and Cancer Services) and integrated care for the local, regional and national population, with a focus on delivering the Trust goals.
The CEO will engage effectively, to represent the organisation with a wide range of stakeholders, NHS and other partners across the system and region as well as working closely in our place-based local health and care economies.
The CEO advocates and role models The Leeds Way Values and behaviours in all that they do.
Main duties
To provide vision, direction and empowering leadership in enabling the Trust to achieve its goals, objectives, underpinned by risk management and culture.
To lead and manage members of the Trusts Executive Team ensuring their professional performance and development needs are addressed and empowering a team culture through which high performance is achieved.
Continue to develop and promote The Leeds Way, underpinned by championing inclusion to ensure that all staff have equality of opportunity and treatment and that access to treatment for patents is focused on closing health inequality gaps. Lead the development of the Trust as employer of choice, with the aspiration to be the best place to work.
About us
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is a values-led organisation and one of the largest and busiest acute hospital trusts in the country. The Trust provides healthcare and specialist services for people from the city of Leeds, Yorkshire and the Humber region and beyond. We play an important role in the training and education of medical, nursing and dental students, and are a centre for world-class research, innovation and pioneering new treatments.
The Trust has a budget of more than £2.1 billion and a 20,000-strong staff. Last year we treated close to 1.8 million patients, including 109,000 inpatient admissions, 1.3 million outpatient attendances and 359,000 attendances in our Emergency Departments. Our care and clinical expertise is delivered from seven hospitals on five sites, all joined by our vision to be the best for specialist and integrated care.
Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.
Details
Date posted: 10 September 2025
Pay scheme: Very senior manager (VSM)
Salary: Depending on experience Spot Salary
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number: C9298-TEX-0084
Job locations: St. James\'s University Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds, LS9 7TF
Job description
Please see supporting documents for full Job Description with further information on requirements of the role, the full person specification and information of how to apply for the position.
Person Specification
Experience
* Must have a demonstrable successful record of leadership and strategic management with impact evidenced both within an organisation and across system and regional footprints, likely gained at CEO level
* Experience of delivering organisational strategic goals through working in partnerships and collaboration with others.
* Must have a demonstrable experience and a track record of building, developing and leading successful organisations/programmes to deliver transformation ideally in a multisite environment.
* A record of effectively leading the management of considerable resources with experience of delivering long term sustainability and improvements, leading large scale innovative or organisational change
* Experience of delivering financial, sustainability demonstrating the balance between this and quality and safety.
* Must have a demonstrable track record in quality improvement, exceptional service user outcomes and deep knowledge of improvement technologies and methodologies.
* Experience of building and leading successful and effective teams within a large, complex organisation with evidence of driving positive staff engagement and improving diversity and inclusion
Skills & behaviours
* Exceptional interpersonal skills and ability to present the Trusts aims, achievements and values with logic, passion and impact
* Ability to create a culture of innovation, questioning and learning
* Ability to facilitate change constructively
* Ability to deliver under pressure
* Ability to empower, motivate and support people and teams
* An effective decision maker who leads by example and is able to take others with them
* Strategic thinker with the ability to communicate a vision and engage followership
* Drive and enthusiasm
* Able to communicate effectively with all staff and stakeholders
* Personal integrity and commitment to ensuring openness and transparency
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name: Leeds Teaching Hospitals
Address: St. James\'s University Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds, LS9 7TF
Employer's website: https://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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