Chief Executive Officer - Cromwell Hospital
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Chief Executive Officer - Cromwell Hospital
Location – Cromwell Hospital, Kensington, SW5 0TU
Permanent | Full time (37.5 hours)
Competitive salary & excellent benefits package
Closing date for applications –Thursday 11th June 2026
We make health happen
As Chief Executive Officer of Cromwell Hospital, you will take on the most senior leadership role within Bupa’s flagship private hospital in London. You will be accountable for the overall performance, reputation and long-term sustainability of the hospital, ensuring we deliver market-leading clinical outcomes alongside exceptional commercial success.
Cromwell Hospital is one of the UK’s most advanced independent acute hospitals, recognised globally for delivering complex, high-acuity care across a range of specialties. You will lead an organisation that sets the benchmark for quality, innovation and patient experience, both in the UK and internationally.
This is a highly influential leadership role where you’ll shape the future of private healthcare delivery, driving strategic growth, strengthening our position in the London healthcare market, and ensuring we continue to provide outstanding care to both domestic and international patients.
How you’ll help us make health happen
- Provide inspirational executive leadership, building a high-performing, values-driven culture across the hospital.
- Take full accountability for P&L performance, ensuring long-term financial sustainability and reinvestment into patient care.
- Drive market leadership in London’s private healthcare sector through innovation, service-line growth and strategic positioning.
- Strengthen consultant engagement, ensuring Cromwell remains the hospital of choice for leading specialists.
- Lead clinical governance, ensuring the highest standards of patient safety, quality and regulatory compliance, with a strong focus on CQC excellence.
Key Skills / Qualifications
- Proven experience as a CEO or Executive Director within a large, complex acute hospital environment.
- Demonstrable experience with full P&L ownership and delivery of sustainable financial performance.
- Strong understanding of the London private healthcare market with an established professional network.
- Extensive experience in clinical governance, quality assurance and regulatory frameworks (e.g. CQC).
- Proven track record of leading transformation, improving performance and driving growth.
- Strong commercial acumen with experience in strategic decision-making and investment planning.
- Experience of building and maintaining strong consultant relationships and developing clinical services.
- Inspirational leadership style with the ability to engage and motivate executive and clinical teams.
- Experience working with international patient pathways, global insurers, or overseas healthcare networks.
Benefits
Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.
Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:
- 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
- Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
- An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
- Free health assessment for you and your spouse
- Annual performance-based bonus
- Company car allowance
- Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
- Various other benefits and online discounts
Why Bupa?
We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.
We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.