Group Chief Strategy Officer

This post is only open for applications from individuals employed within the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board.

Organisations within scope are as follows:

• Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
• Isle of Wight NHS Trust
• Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
• University Hospitals Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

Salary: Very Senior Manager (VSM)

Base: Across Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust are embarking on an ambitious and transformative journey together and we are seeking an exceptional Group Chief Strategy Officer (GCSO) to shape the future of our organisations and the services we provide for our communities.

This pivotal Group Executive role will provide strategic leadership across both Trusts driving clinically financially and environmentally sustainable services and enabling a shared strategic vision for the future of healthcare across the Isle of Wight and Portsmouth.

If you are an inspirational executive leader who thrives on complexity system collaboration and longterm strategic transformation this is an extraordinary opportunity to make a profound and lasting impact.

The Role

As Group Chief Strategy Officer you will:

• Lead the development and deployment of the strategic frameworks for both PHU and IWT.
• Shape and execute the transformation strategy required to deliver modern sustainable highquality services for our populations.
• Build and maintain strong partnerships with local regional and national stakeholders ensuring both Trusts are well positioned within an evolving health and care landscape.
• Provide Boardlevel leadership and shared accountability for strategy performance quality and longterm sustainability across both organisations.
• Rolemodel collaborative compassionate executive leadership and foster a culture aligned to our values across both Trusts.

This is a defining role at the heart of our Group Executive team shaping a shared purpose driving complex transformation and enabling both organisations to deliver consistently safe effective highquality patient care.

About You

We are seeking a strategic visionary and highly collaborative leader with:

• Executivelevel experience within a large and complex organisation.
• A track record of developing and delivering major organisational strategies.
• Strong political awareness exceptional influencing skills and the ability to build trusted relationships.
• Significant experience navigating complex financial operational and system challenges.
• Intellectual flexibility analytical strength and the ability to see and shape the longterm picture.
• The confidence resilience and integrity needed to lead transformation across diverse teams and organisational boundaries.

Most importantly you will be aligned with the values of both Trusts and committed to working in a collaborative inclusive and systemfocused way.

As part of your application please ensure you include your CV and Cover Letter. Applications can also be emailed to Claire Winter Recruitment Consultant -

Closing Date: Monday 23rd February 2026

Interview Date: Monday 9th March 2026

For further details including the full Job Description please see enclosed Candidate Brief

Qualifications :

• Management qualification or equivalent
• Educated to a Masters Degree level or equivalent post-graduate qualification
• Evidence of sustained personal and professional development

Experience

• Operating at Executive Director level in a large complex service organisation
• Demonstrable track record of significant achievements and delivered results
• Developed and delivered a comprehensive strategy and plan 
• Developed and maintained good relationships and partnerships with internal colleagues and external agencies managing those relationships with diplomacy
• Negotiated and influenced on a range of complex financial issues

Skills and Knowledge

• Strategic planner and visionary capable of translating the service strategy into effective policy and objectives
• Analytical astuteness able to maintain control
• Able to express issues in an easily understood manner for a range of audiences
• Open and participative management

Other

• Tenacity: demonstrates high levels of self-belief drive enthusiasm and stamina to achieve goals and see things through
• Intellectual flexibility ability to think conceptually recognise assumptions evaluate arguments and deduce inferences
• Ability to motivate inspire and provide innovative solutions
• Confidence in achieving results in an inclusive and collaborative manner
• Ability to work effectively in a complex and changing environment
• Confident independent and effective decision maker
• Ability to work under pressure to demanding timetables
• Understands the need to deliver short-term priorities and achieve long-term goals (sense of balance).
• Displays innovative and lateral thinking
• Prepared to work totally flexibly
• High degree of self-awareness
• Ability to maintain confidence at all times
• Exceptionally high levels of personal integrity and loyalty
• Intellectual flexibility that enables the reasoned assessment of a situation and the ability to draw pragmatic conclusions
• Ability to broad scan to keep abreast of developments in the Health Care sector
• Ability to deal with confidential issues in a professional and sensitive manner

Leadership Qualities

• Self management
• Personal integrity
• Broad scanning
• Seizing the future
• Political astuteness
• Intellectual flexibility
• Drive for results
• Collaborative working
• Effective and strategic influencing
• Holding to account
• Drive for improvement

Additional Information :

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ Race Equality and DisAbility and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education opinions culture ethnicity race sex gender identity and expression nation of origin age languages spoken veterans status colour religion disability sexual orientation and beliefs.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time