About this role
Job summary
UHB sits at the forefront of some of the most significant challenges and opportunities facing the NHS today. With a scale and complexity that few organisations can match, we are uniquely placed not only to deliver change, but to define the strategic direction shaping how care is designed, delivered and experienced for our patients and communities.
By any measure, UHB is one of the most significant organisations in the NHS, with an annual turnover exceeding 2.6 billion and a workforce of more than 26,000 colleagues. We deliver care at scale to local, regional and national populations, alongside some of the most advanced and specialised services in the country. Our role within the Birmingham and Solihull system, including our Anchor Organisation responsibilities, places us at the centre of shaping future models of care.
As expectations evolve around integration, productivity, prevention and population health, organisations must act decisively and deliver transformation that is both ambitious and sustainable. We are therefore establishing a Board-level Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer, reporting to the Chief Executive with enterprise-wide accountability for strategy, transformation and long-term sustainability.
Beyond the organisation, you will operate as a senior system leader, working across Birmingham and Solihull to shape shared strategies and deliver coordinated, population-focused care.
Main duties of the job
As CSTO, you will shape the Trust's direction, ensuring strategy is grounded in population need, aligned to system priorities and delivered at pace. As a core Board member, you will lead the development and execution of strategic frameworks that bring clarity and grip to complex priorities, aligning strategic, operational and financial planning and guiding the organisation's most critical long-term choices.
You will drive large-scale transformation, ensuring programmes are delivered with discipline and impact. This includes overseeing major change, embedding innovation, harnessing digital and data, and creating the conditions for continuous improvement so services remain clinically, operationally and financially sustainable. You will provide visible executive leadership, translating ambition into measurable progress and strengthening organisational confidence.
You will set the standard for leadership across the organisation, creating environments where teams can contribute, challenge and grow.
This is a rare leadership opportunity. You will operate at the centre of the organisation's most critical decisions, shaping strategic direction, influencing system-wide priorities and ensuring ambition is translated into delivery. It requires an exceptional leader with the credibility, judgement and experience to operate at scale, navigate complexity and lead across organisational and system boundaries.
Interviews to take place, face to face on 2nd July
About us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
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Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
*Educated to master's level or equivalent level of experience and evidence of continuing professional development. *Demonstrable track record of achievement in the provision of excellent interpersonal, strategic and technical skills experience.
Desirable
*Postgraduate level qualification in improvement / redesign / transformation. *Postgraduate level qualification in project management.
Experience Essential
*Proven experience & ability to deliver major transformation programmes. *Intellectual flexibility to make strategies and complex situations accessible to stakeholders. *Experience translating organisation strategy and vision into operational objectives. *Evidence of successfully leading significant organisational change in developing new models of delivery within large complex organisations and across organisational boundaries. *Demonstrable experience of building, maintaining and utilising successful relationships with all staff within complex organisations and across healthcare systems. *An understanding of healthcare planning process and key national healthcare issues. *Demonstrate strong and credible leadership in being able to pull people together across systems and motivate them to deliver common aims and targets.
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Employer details Employer name University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Address Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Mindelsohn Way
Birmingham
West Midlands
B15 2TH
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/jobs.htm (Opens in a new tab)