Interim Managing Director in Birmingham

Modality LLP is a leading provider of NHS and private healthcare services. We are seeking an experienced Interim Managing Director to provide strategic and operational leadership across the organisation. Reporting to the Executive Partner and accountable to the LLP Board, you will lead financial recovery, operational improvement, and organisational transformation. Working with the Board, senior leaders, clinicians, commissioners, NHS partners, and private providers, you will ensure services remain high quality, sustainable, and responsive to patient needs. The successful candidate will have significant senior healthcare leadership experience, a proven track record of delivering financial and operational improvement, and the ability to lead complex change through collaboration and stakeholder engagement.

This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact within a dynamic healthcare organisation committed to delivering excellent patient care.

Main duties of the job

• Provide strategic leadership across Modality LLP's NHS and private healthcare services, ensuring the organisation delivers its financial, operational, quality, and workforce objectives.
• Lead the delivery of the organisation's recovery and transformation priorities, driving improvements in productivity, service performance, operational efficiency, and long‑term sustainability.
• Ensure robust governance, effective risk management, and delivery against organisational objectives while fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Represent Modality LLP with commissioners, NHS partners, regulators, and commercial stakeholders, helping to strengthen partnerships and support the continued development of the organisation.

Job responsibilities

• Translating LLP Board priorities into clear delivery plans, workstreams, milestones, governance arrangements, and benefits realisation measures.
• Providing leadership and line management to the Head of Operations, Head of Contracting and Performance, and Head of Finance, ensuring alignment across the senior leadership team.
• Establishing effective performance management, reporting, and benefits‑tracking arrangements to support delivery of organisational objectives.
• Developing governance frameworks and management information that support informed decision‑making and organisational accountability.
• Supporting the mobilisation, development, and growth of NHS and private services, including service profitability reviews and commercial partnership opportunities.
• Identifying and mitigating strategic and operational risks that may impact delivery of organisational objectives.
• Leading organisational change initiatives, ensuring effective communication, engagement, and adoption across services.
• Supporting workforce development and succession planning, helping to build leadership capability and organisational resilience.
• Ensuring organisational resources are deployed effectively to maximise value, efficiency, and service sustainability.
• Promoting a positive, engaged, and high‑performing culture aligned to Modality LLP's values and strategic objectives.

The postholder will need to demonstrate significant senior/executive‑level management experience in NHS and/or private healthcare, including accountability for budgets and leadership of senior managers. They will also need proven experience of leading financial recovery, cost improvement, or turnaround programmes and delivering organisational transformation.

Person Specification

Experience

• Significant senior or executive‑level management experience within an NHS and or private healthcare setting, including accountability for budgets and leadership of senior managers.
• Proven experience of leading financial recovery, cost improvement, or turnaround programmes within a complex healthcare or comparable service environment.
• Experience of delivering digitally enabled transformation using data, technology, automation, and process redesign to improve productivity and service performance.
• Significant experience of change management and leading large teams.
• Significant experience of partnership working with external organisations and stakeholders.
• Significant experience of managing NHS contracts and services with successful outcomes.
• Significant experience of managing private/commercial healthcare services with successful outcomes.
• Experience of presenting complex information and performance data to senior audiences and influencing change.

Skills

• Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills.
• Strong leadership and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to produce accurate, high‑quality reports and documentation to a professional standard.
• Strong analytical and communication skills with the ability to interpret and present complex information.
• Ability to influence, negotiate, and drive improvement across multiple stakeholders and organisations.

Qualifications

• Educated to master's level in a relevant subject or equivalent level of experience working at a similar level within a specialist area.
• Evidence of continuous professional development.

Knowledge

• In‑depth understanding of the current NHS and private healthcare landscape.
• Experience and understanding of governance systems and processes, including CQC compliance.
• Knowledge of policy development, service pathways, and standard operating procedures.
• Proficient in the use of MS Word, Outlook, Excel, and other relevant software packages.

Personal Qualities

• Strategic and commercially aware.
• Tactful, diplomatic, and politically astute.
• Resilient and adaptable in a fast‑paced environment.
• Results‑focused with a commitment to continuous improvement.
• Professional, credible, and collaborative in approach.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£90,000 to £100,000 a year – salary is WTE and depends on experience.