Chief Executive, The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

This is a great opportunity to fulfil a very significant and high profile leadership role. Suited to a highly motivated, solution-focused and compassionate leader.

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.

We employ over 4,200 people and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.

We have 414 general and acute beds at the Princess Alexandra Hospital and provide a full range of general acute services, including a 24/7 emergency department; an intensive care unit; a maternity unit and a neonatal intensive care unit. We also provide outpatient and diagnostic services across all three hospitals and are about to build a new Community Diagnostic Centre at St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.

Our future PAHT

We are on the verge of a defining moment in PAHT’s history. What lies ahead is a journey of transformation and improvement that will lead us successfully into the future, enabling us to deliver modern, integrated and outstanding care that keeps our growing and ageing population healthier.

Against a backdrop of NHS and system transformation, the relentless pace of scientific, technical and clinical innovation, and our amazing opportunity to build a brand-new hospital, we have developed a strategy that is big, bold and ambitious.

This is PAHT 2030, our organisational roadmap for the next five years. It is designed to inspire and challenge us, to guide and unite us in working smarter and better to achieve our vision.

We have already made great progress, and there is much more to do. Now, more than ever, we are coming together as one team, working with our local, regional and national partners, our patients and our communities to make PAHT the centre of excellence we know it can be.

Thank you for your interest in the Chief Executive role at The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) and for taking the time to read this information pack.
We are seeking an outstanding, highly motivated, patient and people focussed individual to join the team at PAHT, at what is a hugely exciting time for the organisation.
We have a strong and clear vision to be modern, integrated, and outstanding in all that we do and a clear strategy (PAHT 2030) about how we are going to get there over the next five years. This is built on strong values of patient at heart, everyday excellence, and creative collaboration and five clear strategic priorities of transforming our care, our culture, digital health, corporate transformation, and our new hospital. We are determined that we can only deliver this strategy by working in an increasingly integrated way with key partners, ensuring that local services work seamlessly to support patients.
We are launching our new electronic health record (Alex Health) in October that will enable us to become one of the most digitally advanced hospitals in the country. This will support and underpin our digital health priority and the advancements we have made in recent years in using the latest technologies, including artificial intelligence in radiology and some of our corporate services, robotic surgery, and system integration. It will also support our collaboration with partners across the local West Essex Health and Care Partnership (WE HCP) and the Hertfordshire and West Essex ICS, and our new Chief Executive will be tasked with forging ever closer relationships with our system partners, devising new models of care to best support the population we jointly serve across Hertfordshire and West Essex. Many within our local population live with high levels of socio-economic challenge, and we envisage some future care models will become formally integrated between providers in order to better address this.
PAHT is part of the national New Hospital Programme to build a new hospital for Harlow, a complete replacement of the PAH site, by 2030 / 2032, and the CEO role will be instrumental in driving this with Trust, system, regional and national colleagues. In advance of this, our Community Diagnostic Centre facility on the St Margaret’s site is due to be open in 2025, increasing diagnostic capacity and providing access to services closer to home, aligned with our collaboration with health and care partners across WE HCP.
Collaboration is at the centre of all that we do and you will need to be a collaborator and a strong advocate for working with partners across HWE ICS and WE HCP and continuing to develop how local services can be redesigned and improved jointly. We have recently signed a 15-year contract with Health Services Laboratories for the provision of system wide pathology services, are building a new system-wide elective hub at St Albans Hospital and continue to develop our system wide procurement and corporate services.
None of the above will be possible without all our people working to their full potential and you will need to be a compassionate and inclusive leader, who has a clear commitment to embedding a positive culture that reflects the diversity of our colleagues and inspires our people to be the best they can be.
We are looking for a talented, compassionate, high potential and committed individual to lead PAHT through the very exciting times ahead, building on the strong foundations we have, to continue our journey towards being modern, integrated and outstanding in all that we do. If you are excited by this and the opportunity to be instrumental in reducing local health inequalities, with the skills to work in partnership internally and externally, then we would welcome an application from you.
If you would like to discuss the role further, then please contact Thomas Patterson, Managing Director or Beth Stickney, Principal Researcher at Alumni Global on +44 7703 821 996 or beth.stickney@alumniglobal.com
Hattie Llewelyn-Davies
Chair
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All applications must include:
- A full curriculum vitae/resume
- Quoting the relevant role reference number: A039248
- A covering letter highlighting the aspects of the job description and The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust that particularly attract you to the post (Microsoft Word document)
- Contact details for three referees, these will not be contacted without your permission. (References should validate a minimum period of six years employment)
- A completed Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form (which you will be redirected to once you have submitted your application) *
Monitoring
One of Alumni Global’s and The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust’s objectives is to ensure that its workforce is reflective of the local community and therefore we actively encourage applications from under-represented groups. So that we can successfully achieve these aims, while it is not mandatory we would encourage every applicant to complete the “Equal Opportunities Monitoring form” so that we can measure the effectiveness of our efforts. The Recruiting Manager does not have access to the Monitoring Information Sections of the application form at any stage of the process and the information provided will be kept entirely confidential.
For a confidential discussion on this role please contact:
Thomas Patterson, Managing Director or Beth Stickney, Principal Researcher, on +44 7703 821 996.
Candidate adjustment
If you require any reasonable adjustments to be made as part of the recruitment process please can you advise us so that we can ensure this is accommodated.
Key Milestones:
Closing date: 23rd May 2024
Stakeholder session: TBC
Final Interviews: 18th June 2024
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