Job requirements
Essential
30 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Skills
Highly developed executive leadership and management, communication, negotiation and influencing skills.
- Skills
Ability to communicate complex, sensitive and contentious information clearly and credibly.
- Skills
Strong strategic and analytical capability, with the ability to interpret highly complex organisational, performance, financial, workforce, digital and quality information.
- Skills
Ability to act as a credible strategic adviser to the Chief Executive and senior decision-makers.
- Skills
Ability to translate strategy into clear priorities, coordinated plans, accountabilities and measurable outcomes.
- Skills
Ability to create grip across complex priorities without displacing the accountability of other executive and functional leaders.
- Skills
Ability to lead and manage through complexity, ambiguity and change with compassion, resilience and pace.
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Ability to build strong and influential relationships across executive portfolios, organisations and systems.
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Ability to provide constructive challenge, exercise sound judgement and make effective decisions under pressure.
- Skills
Strong written and verbal presentation skills, including Board-level reporting.
- Knowledge
Extensive knowledge of strategy development and execution, integrated planning and organisational transformation within a large, complex organisation.
- Knowledge
Strong understanding of NHS strategy, governance, performance, regulatory and financial frameworks.
- Knowledge
Extensive knowledge of programme and portfolio management, benefits realisation, organisational improvement and delivery methodologies.
- Knowledge
Strong understanding of system leadership, partnership working and transformation across integrated health and care systems.
- Knowledge
Sufficient understanding of digital transformation, data, analytics and information governance to provide credible executive oversight and hold senior specialist leaders to account
- Knowledge
Understanding of corporate communications, stakeholder engagement, public and stakeholder confidence, and communications in complex or sensitive circumstances.
- Knowledge
Understanding of financial management, workforce planning, business planning, risk management and corporate governance.
- Experience
Significant senior leadership and management experience within a large, complex organisation, operating at or close to Executive Director and Board level.
- Experience
Significant and substantial experience of advising Chief Executives, Boards or equivalent senior governance forums on strategy, transformation and organisational delivery.
- Experience
Proven experience of translating strategy into coordinated delivery plans and measurable outcomes
- Experience
Demonstrable experience of leading large-scale organisation-wide transformation and complex programme or portfolio delivery.
- Experience
Experience of leading system and partnership transformation across organisational boundaries.
- Experience
Experience of integrated planning, cross-portfolio coordination and resolving complex organisational dependencies
- Experience
Experience of providing clear, evidence-based assurance on strategic delivery, performance, risk, controls and improvement.
- Experience
Experience of leading and developing senior leaders and multidisciplinary functions.
- Experience
Desirable experience of major digital-enabled change, benefits realisation and data or analytics-led improvement.
- Experience
Desirable experience of overseeing strategic communications and stakeholder engagement across complex partnerships, including during major change, emergencies and periods of heightened sensitivity or scrutiny.
- Qualifications
Educated to master’s level, or able to demonstrate equivalent knowledge and experience gained through senior strategic leadership and management, supported by evidence of an externally accredited postgraduate or professional qualification relevant to the delivery portfolio.
- Qualifications
Degree or equivalent professional qualification.
- Qualifications
Evidence of significant continuing professional development.
Desirable
Not listed in the available specification.
Job overview
Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust Executive Director of Delivery Location: Trustwide (with regular travel and in-person visibility required) Salary: Attractive VSM
The new role of Executive Director of Delivery, a non-voting member of the board, will be the principal strategic adviser to the Chief Executive and Board. Reporting to the Chief Executive you will lead the delivery of our organisational strategy, transformation agenda and system partnerships, ensuring that strategic priorities are translated into clear plans, measurable outcomes and sustainable improvement.
Working closely with Executive colleagues, operational leaders and external partners, you will provide leadership, assurance and constructive challenge across strategy delivery, transformation, digital, data and stakeholder engagement. This is an opportunity to play a pivotal role in helping shape the future direction of a large and complex NHS organisation at a significant point in its development.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking a credible senior leader with significant experience at, or close to, Board level in a large, complex organisation. You will have a strong track record of translating strategy into measurable outcomes, leading large-scale transformation, and building effective partnerships across organisational boundaries. A strong understanding of NHS governance, regulation and the financial context in which NHS organisations operate will be important, alongside the ability to build high levels of trust and influence with senior stakeholders. Above all, you will be a compassionate, inclusive and values-driven leader who brings pace, clarity and focus while enabling colleagues to deliver the best outcomes for patients, carers and communities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We want our Board to be as inclusive and diverse as possible, and we are keen to attract candidates who can bring diverse perspectives. We warmly welcome expressions of interest from the widest possible range of backgrounds, particularly those who are under-represented at board level in the NHS.
To learn more about this incredible opportunity, please contact our recruitment partners at Gatenby Sanderson:
Will McAlpine, Niamh Blair, or Robin Staveley via
will.mcalpine@gatenbysanderson.com
We are working in partnership with Gatenby Sanderson to manage the recruitment process for this role. All applications should therefore be submitted directly through Gatenby Sanderson. Please be aware that applications submitted via TRAC will not be considered.
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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This advert is for Executive Director of Delivery with Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust in Darlington, England. It is listed as a Director role. The advertised salary is £100000.00 to £200000.00. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 09 Nov 2026.
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