Chief Executive Officer inLiverpool inLiverpool PUBLISHED 21 SEP 2024

Alder Hey is a special place with phenomenal potential. As one of the world’s leading children’s hospitals, we provide specialist healthcare to over 400,000 children and young people each year. In addition to our state-of-the-art site at Alder Hey in the Park, we have a presence across a range of community outreach sites in Liverpool and Sefton, and collaborate with other providers to deliver care closer to children and young people’s homes from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales, and the Isle of Man. Along with our amazing workforce of 4,500 staff, we are a teaching and training hospital, with a turnover in excess of £400 million.

As an anchor institution for children and young people’s healthcare in the North West, we are a top performing Trust, with a CQC ‘Outstanding’ for Care and ‘Good’ overall, and a leading innovator with a commitment to game changing research and innovation rooted in outstanding clinical services. Throughout the last year, we have been working to implement our ambitious new Strategy for 2grounded in our vision for ‘a healthier, happier and fairer future where every child and young person achieves their potential’, and we are well positioned to continue to lead a highly successful Trust.

We are now seeking to appoint a high achieving, values-driven and inspiring Chief Executive Officer to join our Chair in leading our engaged, dynamic and talented Board of Directors, focused on putting patients, their families, and our people at the heart of all our strategic decisions. As Chief Executive you will demonstrate compassion for all those we serve, as well as foster an environment in which our staff can thrive to deliver the best care to our children and young people. As Accountable Officer you will promote the highest standards of integrity and corporate governance, as well as offering clear direction, constructive challenge and support to our established team of experienced Executive Directors.

The person appointed will also need to demonstrate a capacity to develop meaningful partnerships in this complex, changing and multistakeholder environment.

Alder Hey is an inclusive, supportive family focussed workplace with dedicated and friendly staff. We want our Board to represent the diversity of the population we serve, and we warmly welcome and encourage applications from candidates from under-represented groups.

To learn more about this role and the process, please visit our website or contact Emma Rees, Executive Assistant to the Trust Chair and Chief Executive Officer at

Closing date: 27th September 2024

Interviews and stakeholder engagement: w/c 11th November 2024


Key Responsibilities In The Role Will Be To

• Provide strong, visible leadership and a clear sense of purpose that will deliver cultural and service change.
• Work and take collective decisions as part of a Unitary Board alongside the Trust Chair and both Executive and Non-Executive Director Board Members.
• Be responsible for ensuring the Trust meets all of its statutory and service obligations and be accountable for providing advice to the Board on all elements of Trust business and specifically on matters relating to probity, regulation and compliance.
• Ensure that patient safety and high quality care are embedded as the key drivers of all aspects of the Trust’s business.
• Fulfil our commitment to working and responding locally to deliver effective plans with partners which will aim to address health inequalities and improve life chances for children and young people.
• Champion and embed an organisational culture that encourages innovation, values and empowers people and promotes the well-being of colleagues
• Establish well structured, open and honest engagement with patients, the public, staff and all other stakeholders.
• Ensure performance targets are set and achieved.
• Provide proper stewardship of public funds and the compliance of the Trust with all statutory, regulatory and policy requirements.
• Act as an ambassador for the Trust, building the reputation of the organisation nationally and internationally.
  
  

As one of Europe’s biggest and busiest children’s hospitals, at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, we treat everything from common illnesses to highly complex and specialist conditions. In addition to our main hospital site, we offer paediatric services at a number of community sites and hold local clinics across Merseyside, Cumbria, Shropshire, Wales and the Isle of Man. We also provide specialist inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs in our recently relocated and newly opened state of the art facility.

Alder Hey has a thriving research portfolio and leads research into children’s medicines, infection, inflammation and oncology. We are becoming recognised as one of the world’s leaders in children’s healthcare and research. We contribute to public health, lead cutting-edge research and teach the next generation of children’s specialists. Alongside this is our Innovation Hub, a dedicated space where clinicians and industries can come together to create new products and technologies.

We know that a children’s hospital is different and that our job is more than just treating an illness. To us, every child is an individual. As well as giving them the very best care, we set out to make them feel happy, safe and confident as they play, learn and grow. At Alder Hey we are here to look after a child and their family and that includes mums, dads, brothers and sisters.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Emma Rees Job title: Executive Assistant to the Trust Chair and Chief Executive Officer Email address: Telephone number: