Organisation: Livewell Southwest
Role: Chief Executive
Location: Plymouth
Salary: £167,000 – £174,000
Livewell Southwest’s mission is to support people to lead independent, healthy lives in the place, and the community, in which they live.
We are a respected provider of integrated physical and mental health and social care services to a population of about 270,000 across South Hams, West Devon, and Plymouth, with additional responsibilities for delivering specialist services to people living in parts of Cornwall and Devon.
We are proud to be a social enterprise. Everything we do – how we shape our organisation, culture, strategy, and values – is geared towards getting the best outcomes and greatest value for our local communities.
Our clear vision is to be the very best at helping people to live well, supporting them to lead independent, healthy lives. We do this by shaping our services around the specific needs of those communities and ensuring all colleagues champion our values of being kind, respectful, inclusive, ambitious and responsible. We work closely with our partners at a neighbourhood level to make accessing health and social care services simple. Doing this allows us to offer many sustainable services at a community-level, helping people to stay healthy and live independent at home.
We are at an exciting time in our journey, so this is an exceptional opportunity for our new Chief Executive to work with our outstanding Board of Non-Executive Directors, and Executive Leaders to drive the next phase of our development as well as the wider transformation of health and social care across the region, in collaboration with our partners.
As an experienced, inclusive leader, you will ensure that the business fulfils its great potential and will continue to grow the range of services we deliver to our communities. Our future must be shaped around our people and supported by inclusive leadership and robust governance. As such, it is imperative that we seek out those leaders who embody our values and commit wholeheartedly to supporting colleagues achieve our priorities. We have embarked on a long-term journey to create a culture of continuous improvement, focused on realising our priorities and achieving our strategy, enabled by established management systems and respectful, coaching leadership style.
Our people are committed to providing high quality services and an important part of your role will be supporting the workforce and the thriving, positive culture of Livewell Southwest. Our external relationships are critical too – so you will be politically astute, accomplished in building effective relationships and partnerships with other organisations, both inside and outside the NHS.
The Future
Livewell Southwest has much to be proud of and we are positive for the future. We are an agile organisation always looking at how best to respond to the changing needs of the local population, whilst ensuring we are well placed to contribute across the wider health and social care provision at a system level. All organisations working in health now have a huge task ahead of them to meet the demands services face, especially when the pressure on people and resources are greater than ever before.
The Person
We are seeking an individual able to enthuse others to deliver the vision of true integration by proactively contributing at a system and local level to take forward new ideas and innovation, engaging in a meaningful way with clinicians, other service providers and the wider community to shape service development and provide leadership which champions the capabilities of our people.
As our new Chief Executive, you must bring a strong track record of system leadership that is strategic, visible, values based, and collaborative. You will also share our passion for patient care and exhibit the values of Livewell Southwest – being kind, respectful, inclusive, ambitious, responsible and collaborative.
To Apply
Please download the attached brief for full details of the role, our vision for the future and Chief Executive requirements and details of how to apply. For an informal and confidential discussion, please contact our recruitment partner Anna Jay, MD of Public Leaders Appointments; [email protected] or 07904 236 348
Closing date for applications: Midday, 1st March 2022
