All Locations
Hemel Hempstead, Hybrid/Remote, London
Vacancy ID:
4770
Advertising Salary
Competitive
Careers Site Advertising End Date
15 May 2026
Vacancy Type
Permanent

About The Role

Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

NHS Professionals (NHSP) is a progressive and ambitious service provider; we run the largest NHS flexible staff bank, placing highly skilled temporary workers in NHS trusts and healthcare organisations to meet short, medium and long-term staffing needs.

This is a rare opportunity to lead a nationally significant organisation at the intersection of NHS workforce, technology and public service reform.

Originally formed in 2001, NHS Professionals is a  multi-award-winning business, that has delivered over 40 million hours of patient care and 5 million shifts throughout last year, working with 140+ NHS Trusts and healthcare organisations across the country. 

Working in partnership with NHS trust clients, NHSP provides a service that combines a deep understanding of each trust’s temporary and flexible workforce requirements with the reliability, quality and value for money of a fully managed service. With a strong track record and trusted national presence, we are well placed to respond to an evolving marketplace—harnessing technology, supporting trusts through transformation, and playing an even greater role in addressing workforce pressures.

The Opportunity

The CEO will build on strong foundations - commercial growth, national scale and proven cost savings - to scale the flexible workforce model, accelerate digital workforce solutions and strengthening NHSP’s role in delivering the long-term workforce strategy, and driving systemic value for money.

The role requires a bold commercial leader who can operate confidently across government, the NHS and commercial markets, balancing policy alignment with delivery, at pace, and with an unwavering commitment to social purpose and service excellence.

Location; Our working arrangements are hybrid, and you can be based anywhere in the UK. However, your contractual base for the purposes of travel and expenses will be the closest NHSP location. You will be expected to travel as part of your role with frequent stakeholder meetings in London.

Please note; Our recruitment partner Odgers is handling applications to this vacancy, therefore your application will be forwarded to Odgers for review. 

Please review the application pack for full information and the candidate brief before applying.

Key Information 

Closing date for applications: Friday 15th May 2026

Following a long list meeting of the Selection Panel, successful candidates will be invited to attend preliminary interviews with Odgers.

A shortlist meeting will then follow to agree those shortlisted candidates to proceed to final stages interviews on a date to be confirmed.

Application Process

In order to apply, please submit a comprehensive CV along with a covering letter which sets out your interest in the role and encapsulates the aspects of your experience relevant to the required criteria.

Referees will not be approached until the final stages and not without prior permission.

About The Candidate

To be successful in this post you will need to demonstrate; 

Essential Criteria 
 
  • Masters degree level or equivalent professional qualifications and /or work experience
  • Proven CEO or senior executive leadership experience in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment
  • Strong track record of delivering commercial growth and operational performance
  • Experience leading data driven, digitally enabled operating models that improve workforce deployment, insight and decision making at scale.
  • Demonstrated ability to balance pace of delivery with public service governance and scrutiny.
  • Strategic vision and the ability to align initiatives, business objectives and long-term goals
  • Proven commercial judgement underpinned by a strong grasp of financial management, affordability controls, transparency and assurance requirements
  • Highly credible stakeholder leader—able to influence at Board and government level
  • Values led leadership consistent with NHS and public sector principles.
  • Collaborative and politically astute with the ability to lead through ambiguity and complexity
  • Agile, adaptable, and outcomes-focused
  • Compelling public speaker and ability to network in the market and balance competitive risks and opportunities
  • Resilience and judgement to operate under sustained political, media and stakeholder scrutiny.

Desirable Criteria

  • Experience of staffing/ recruitment industry
  • Experience of healthcare
  • Experience of Government landscape and an understanding of policy implications 
 

About Us

In return for your commitment, we will offer you some fantastic benefits:

  • Generous annual leave allowance with the ability to buy and sell - 27 days per year, plus bank holidays
  • A commitment to talent management & development
  • Values Star of the Month! -  Our star of the month award enables you to recognise colleagues or teams that have gone the extra mile and they could win £100 worth of shopping vouchers
  • Pension – We’ll contribute up to 10% towards your pension if you join our stakeholder pension scheme
  • Life Assurance
  • Group Income Protection
  • Wellbeing Programme
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Employee Engagement & discounts platform

About Us:

NHS Professionals (NHSP) run the largest NHS flexible staff bank, placing highly skilled temporary workers in NHS Trusts to meet their short, medium and long-term needs. Uniquely we are owned by the Department of Health and Social Care and we therefore reinvest any surplus we make directly back into the NHS.

NHSP is committed to being an inclusive employer of choice, working with a variety of partner organisations which provide valuable insights and best practice. We are accredited as a Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute and recognised as one of the Sunday Times Best Places to Work. As part of our ongoing commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion, we have been awarded the  Race Equality Code Quality Mark and are a signatory of Disability Confident, Menopause Pledge and Mental Health at Work Commitment.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)

As part of our commitment to EDI, as well as having a number of related staff support networks and calendar of activities, NHS professionals is also working to the following aims:
 
  • To ensure we become an inclusive recruiter of choice, encompassing a fully diverse workforce, which truly reflects society
  • To proactively embed the EDI agenda, in a meaningful way, in all that it does 
  • To create a psychologically safe environment in which everyone can thrive and be at their best 
  • To actively support and Include disabled people as part of our commitment to the Disability Confident scheme, including offering an interview to applicants to who meet the minimum criteria and choose to apply under the scheme.
 
We particularly welcome applications from people from minority groups and will provide support to ensure an equitable process.
 
 
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