Chief Infrastructure Officer

Description

Leadership That Enables Transformation

At a time when the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability is advancing its strategic ambitions and deepening its impact, the Chief Infrastructure Officer will be central to shaping the organisation’s future. This role offers the opportunity to lead across a broad and influential portfolio, driving excellence in strategy, infrastructure, and systems. It calls for a leader who thrives in complexity, brings clarity to challenge, and sees the connection between operational rigour and compassionate care. If you are motivated by purpose, inspired by innovation, and ready to help steer a nationally respected charity through its next chapter, this is a role where your leadership will truly matter.

About the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability

The Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability (RHN) is a pioneering national charity and specialist hospital, located in Putney, Southwest London. Founded in 1854, the RHN has over 170 years of heritage in delivering expert care, rehabilitation, and long-term support to adults living with complex neurological conditions and brain injuries. Independent from the NHS but working closely with it, the RHN is a centre of excellence for neuro-disability, combining clinical expertise, research, and compassion to transform lives. The Path to Excellence strategy places patient care and experience at the heart of everything we do and recognised for our outstanding care, innovation, and inclusive culture. Our mission: to empower individuals with neuro-disability to live their lives to the fullest potential, in accordance with their wishes.

About You

You will bring proven strategic leadership across organisational development, legal, IT, and governance, with a track record of driving transformation, embedding accountability, and fostering inclusive, high-performing teams. Experienced as part of an executive leadership team in a complex organisation, you will shape and deliver strategy, work closely with Boards and regulators, and ensure robust governance, compliance, and risk management. Highly skilled in influencing diverse stakeholders, you combine strategic thinking, analytical capability, and emotional intelligence with the ability to lead through complexity and change. Values-driven and collaborative, you demonstrate integrity, sound judgement, and a passion for enabling excellence—creating resilient systems, empowering people, and ensuring RHN’s mission remains at the heart of everything we do.

The Strategic Importance of this Role

The Chief Infrastructure Officer is a strategically significant leadership role within the executive team working alongside a team of highly experienced and committed operational team leaders. This role will be instrumental in enabling the RHN to deliver its ambitious strategy and uphold its reputation for excellence.

You will play a significant role on the Executive and alongside your fellow Directors, you will be a strategic partner to the CEO and Board, a champion of excellence, and always developing our culture of impact and empowerment. Our strategy, The Path to Excellence, places patients and people at the centre of everything we do. The Chief Infrastructure Officer will play a pivotal role in delivering this strategy through leadership of their specific domains – all of which are strategic enablers - and by cultivating a values-driven culture that enables the RHN to be the national centre of excellence for neuro-disability.

This is not a conventional role. It is a leadership position at the heart of a mission-driven organisation. The Chief Infrastructure Officer role will lead and integrate key critical domains including Organisational Development, Legal, IT and Governance - ensuring RHN’s infrastructure, workforce, and systems are resilient, flexible, ready for the future, and aligned with our values. This is both a unique role and rare opportunity to join an independent charity that is not only clinically outstanding but also deeply compassionate, innovative, and values led. We are a place where leadership makes a difference - where your work will directly impact the lives of people with the most complex health needs.

We Are Keen to Hear From You

We understand that no one meets every requirement. If you are enthusiastic about this opportunity and believe you can contribute meaningfully, we encourage you to apply - even if your experience does not align perfectly with every point. We value transferable skills, potential, and a commitment to learning as much as direct experience.

We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, identities, and lived experiences. Your unique perspective is important to us and helps strengthen the impact of our work.

For an informal conversation please contact Liz Dean liz.dean@gatenbysanderson.com  or Jacqueline Lau Jacqueline.lau@gatenbysanderson.com

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