Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Chair
Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is one of the country’s most influential organisations working to improve the health of children and young people.
Sheffield Children’s has been dedicated to providing world class services to children and young people for 150 years; we provide a wide range of integrated healthcare, including community and mental health as well as acute and specialist services to patients locally, regionally, nationally and internationally, with an annual income of circa £350m. We are rated ‘Good’ by the CQC and have many areas of outstanding practice upon which to build as we deliver our strategy ‘Caring Together’. We are proud of our history and achievements and remain ambitious to build on those foundations, determined to deliver even better care outcomes for the patients and families we serve in the future.
The Opportunity
Following in Professor Laura Serrant’s footsteps, we are seeking to appoint another inspirational, values-driven Chair who will lead us into a new era. This is an exciting time for a new Chair to join us, as we open The Spark, home to the National Centre for Child Health Technology (NCCHT) at Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park with the opportunity for Sheffield Children’s to play an even greater role on local, regional and national platforms.
Our partnerships are strong at a local level and nationally. We also work very closely with Sheffield Children’s Hospital Charity to fund things that are over and above standard NHS provision.
Few Board Chair roles nationally will offer such an opportunity to influence the life chances of future generations of children and young people – not just in Sheffield and South Yorkshire, but nationally and internationally through our many specialist services with clinicians considered amongst the best in the world.
As our new Chair you will have the opportunity to lead a highly capable Board that prides itself on keeping patients at the heart of its decisions and be part of an organisation that is committed to enhancing the health and wellbeing for the millions of people who live in our communities. The successful candidate should demonstrate inspirational leadership qualities gained at board level in organisations of complexity and influence, with the capability to not only lead a board of directors, but to play an important leadership role at system and on a national stage.
We want our Board to be as inclusive and diverse as possible. We encourage applications from individuals who bring lived experience that equips them both for the leadership aspects of the role but also brings an understanding of some of the challenges of our local communities. If you share our values, attitudes and behaviours, please contact us.
For a conversation in confidence, please contact Odgers: Peter Mason or Gill Powell via vicky.graham@odgers.com
For more information and to apply, please visit Opportunities | Odgers