Chief Executive Officer

NHS Professionals

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) NHS Professionals (NHSP) is a progressive and ambitious service provider; we run the largest NHS flexible staff bank, placing highly skilled temporary workers in NHS trusts and healthcare organisations to meet short, medium and long-term staffing needs. This is a rare opportunity to lead a nationally significant organisation at the intersection of NHS workforce, technology and public service reform. Originally formed in 2001, NHS Professionals is a multi-award-winning business, that has delivered over 40 million hours of patient care and 5 million shifts throughout last year, working with 140+ NHS Trusts and healthcare organisations across the country. Working in partnership with NHS trust clients, NHSP provides a service that combines a deep understanding of each trust’s temporary and flexible workforce requirements with the reliability, quality and value for money of a fully managed service. With a strong track record and trusted national presence, we are well placed to respond to an evolving marketplace—harnessing technology, supporting trusts through transformation, and playing an even greater role in addressing workforce pressures. The Opportunity The CEO will build on strong foundations - commercial growth, national scale and proven cost savings - to scale the flexible workforce model, accelerate digital workforce solutions and strengthening NHSP’s role in delivering the long-term workforce strategy, and driving systemic value for money. The role requires a bold commercial leader who can operate confidently across government, the NHS and commercial markets, balancing policy alignment with delivery, at pace, and with an unwavering commitment to social purpose and service excellence.

Requirements

• Masters degree level or equivalent professional qualifications and /or work experience
• Proven CEO or senior executive leadership experience in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment
• Strong track record of delivering commercial growth and operational performance
• Experience leading data driven, digitally enabled operating models that improve workforce deployment, insight and decision making at scale.
• Demonstrated ability to balance pace of delivery with public service governance and scrutiny.
• Strategic vision and the ability to align initiatives, business objectives and long-term goals
• Proven commercial judgement underpinned by a strong grasp of financial management, affordability controls, transparency and assurance requirements
• Highly credible stakeholder leader
• Values led leadership consistent with NHS and public sector principles.
• Collaborative and politically astute with the ability to lead through ambiguity and complexity
• Agile, adaptable, and outcomes-focused
• Compelling public speaker
• Resilience and judgement to operate under sustained political, media and stakeholder scrutiny.

Nice To Haves

• Experience of staffing/ recruitment industry
• Experience of healthcare
• Experience of Government landscape and an understanding of policy implications

Responsibilities

• Scale the flexible workforce model
• Accelerate digital workforce solutions
• Strengthen NHSP’s role in delivering the long-term workforce strategy
• Drive systemic value for money
• Operate confidently across government, the NHS and commercial markets
• Balance policy alignment with delivery, at pace
• Maintain an unwavering commitment to social purpose and service excellence
• Influence at Board and government level
• Network in the market and balance competitive risks and opportunities
• Operate under sustained political, media and stakeholder scrutiny

Benefits

• Generous annual leave allowance with the ability to buy and sell - 27 days per year, plus bank holidays
• A commitment to talent management & development
• Values Star of the Month! - Our star of the month award enables you to recognise colleagues or teams that have gone the extra mile and they could win £100 worth of shopping vouchers
• Pension – We’ll contribute up to 10% towards your pension if you join our stakeholder pension scheme
• Life Assurance
• Group Income Protection
• Wellbeing Programme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee Engagement & discounts platform

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive