Chief Executive Officer Full Time

Lia’s Wings transforms lives through hospital air transfers for children. We are the UK’s international and domestic aeroplane ambulance charity dedicated to ensuring that children and babies who have a medical emergency are safely and swiftly returned to their local hospital or home location within the UK. We also provide a tailored support service for families to help them through crisis, creating improved outcomes and lasting change.

Lia’s Wings has recently expanded internationally, assisting families by repatriating children with medical issues back to the UK, often collaborating closely with British embassies abroad. We ensure that any British citizen can get home to NHS care – even when crisis happens overseas.

Our charity is entering a significant growth phase, with more demand and opportunity than ever before. With a number of opportunities open to us, the CEO will lead our strategic objectives and growth, including:

• Addressing the NHS’s demand for domestic child medical transport
• Significantly expanding our international service
• Potentially establishing Lia’s Wings as an organisation in other countries to assist their own citizens incurring medical issues overseas.

We also aim to broaden our overall service proposition by potentially providing comprehensive pre- and post-transfer support services such as counselling as well as overseeing our own clinical governance through the engagement of our own licensed medical practitioners and counsellors, and engaging our own plane fleet.

The CEO will lead the dramatic expansion of the service to allow us to help more families than ever before, ensuring we have the structure and resources to achieve these goals.

We are looking to appoint a passionate and ambitious leader who brings:

• Experience of operating at strategic level (CEO or senior director) in the charity sector, with inspirational leadership skills.
• Experience of implementing successful fundraising strategies that grow income.
• Experience of building relationships with senior stakeholders, including donors, and of leading on profile raising.
• A passion for the vital support we provide for families.

We actively seek candidates from diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, recognising that embracing diversity and fostering inclusion directly contributes to innovation, creativity, and organisational excellence. Lia’s Wings is committed to equity and fairness in recruitment and employment, ensuring equal opportunities for all candidates regardless of ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion, socio-economic background, or any other characteristic. We are a Disability Confident employer and welcome you to disclose any disabilities as those meeting the minimum criteria for the role who disclose a disability will be progressed to interview.

For further information, to access the full appointment brief and to apply to this role, please visit the Prospectus website via the Apply button.

If having reviewed the appointment brief, you have any queries, please contact our retained advisor, Anna Gardet: Anna.Gardet@prospect-us.co.uk

Recruitment Timetable 
Deadline for applications: Tuesday 24^th June 2025
Interviews with Prospectus: 30^th June – 8^th July 2025
Engagement meeting with Lia’s Wings: w/c 7^th July 2025
Interviews with Lia’s Wings: w/c 7^th July 2025

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