Felipe Castro Cardona
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Healthcare Administration & Leadership Coaching from an NHS Expert (UK)
Studied at University of Oxford
Works at Castro Healthcare Consulting Ltd
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Available today at 10:30 AM UTC
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Felipe 's Offerings
Custom hourly · $119/hr
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Felipe ’s Healthcare Administration Qualifications
Experience level: Director
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Ready for a bigger healthcare role, but not sure how to position the experience you already have? Many talented healthcare professionals have the expertise, judgement and credibility to step into senior leadership, consulting, policy, life sciences, health-tech or advisory roles. What they often need is help translating that experience into a clear story, a confident interview narrative and a stronger executive presence. I bring 22 years’ experience across clinical practice, public health, healthcare leadership, workforce strategy, policy and responsible innovation. My career has taken me from frontline clinical practice to senior provider leadership at Barts Health NHS Trust and national health system leadership at NHS England, with work spanning safer staffing, service transformation, international recruitment, maternity workforce strategy, health technology, responsible AI-enabled change and major public health programme implementation. For more than 15 years, I have mentored and coached healthcare professionals and senior leaders across the UK, Europe and Latin America. I now offer executive and career coaching for clinicians, healthcare managers, policy professionals and aspiring healthcare advisers seeking to move into senior leadership, healthcare administration, consulting, life sciences, health-tech, advisory board or system-level roles. I help clients sharpen their professional narrative, prepare for interviews and advisory discussions, build executive presence, translate clinical, operational or policy expertise into strategic influence, and position themselves confidently for complex healthcare leadership opportunities. My work is grounded in public health and health economics, with an MSc from Queen Mary University of London. I am also a Fellow of the Royal College of Midwives, a Florence Nightingale Scholar and a Leadership Fellow at St George’s House, Windsor Castle. If you are ready to think more strategically about your next move, I would be pleased to work with you, Felipe.
Felipe can help with:
Cover Letters
Freelancing
Healthcare Data Analytics
Healthcare Operations
Healthcare Policy
Healthcare Strategy
Healthcare Technology
Interview Prep
Leadership Development
Networking Strategy
Patient Care
Resume Review
Risk Management
Skill Building
About Felipe
Healthcare professionals often reach a point where their experience is bigger than the story they are telling about it. I help them change that. I started my career as a nurse and midwife, then moved through public health, senior maternity leadership, national policy, workforce strategy and health technology, including serving as NHS England’s National Head of Midwifery Clinical Workforce. That journey taught me how powerful healthcare experience can be when it is translated well. Clinical judgement, leadership under pressure, policy insight, emotional intelligence and the ability to navigate complex systems are all strategic assets. My role is to help clients see that clearly and communicate it with confidence. Through Leland, I support clinicians, healthcare leaders, policy professionals and aspiring advisers preparing for senior transitions into consulting, life sciences, health tech, advisory work, executive leadership or system-level influence. My coaching is practical, honest and supportive. Together, we sharpen your professional narrative, prepare for interviews and advisory conversations, strengthen executive presence, and position your experience in a way that feels credible, ambitious and authentic. If you are ready to take your healthcare experience into a bigger arena, I would be glad to help you make that move well.
Why do I coach?
I coach because I know what it feels like to stand at the edge of a bigger career and not yet have the words for it. At key moments in my own journey, people saw something in me before I could fully see it myself. They challenged me, steadied me, and helped me step into rooms that once felt out of reach. Their belief changed the way I saw my own potential. I also know what it takes to move between worlds. My career began in frontline nursing and midwifery, then grew into public health, senior maternity leadership, national policy, workforce strategy and advisory work. Those transitions can be exciting, but they can also feel lonely, uncertain and difficult to explain. Many healthcare professionals carry exceptional experience but undersell it. They have led under pressure, made complex decisions, built trust, improved services and navigated systems that most people will never understand. The challenge is often not the value they bring. It is finding the language, confidence and strategy to communicate it. That is why I coach. I want people to recognise the value they already hold, speak about it with conviction, and take their next step with clarity, courage and credibility.
Work Experience
Independent Senior Healthcare Adviser
Castro Healthcare Consulting Ltd
May 2026 - Present
I am an independent senior healthcare adviser offering executive and career coaching for clinicians, healthcare managers, policy professionals and aspiring advisers who want to move into senior leadership, healthcare administration, consulting, life sciences, health-tech, advisory board or system-level roles. I bring 22 years’ experience across clinical practice, public health, healthcare leadership, workforce strategy, policy and responsible innovation. My career has included senior provider leadership, national health system leadership at NHS England, maternity workforce strategy, safer staffing, service transformation and the rollout of major public health programmes. For more than 15 years, I have mentored and coached healthcare professionals and senior leaders across the UK, Europe and Latin America, supporting career transitions, leadership development, professional positioning, stakeholder influence and executive presence. My coaching helps clients translate clinical, operational or policy expertise into a clear senior leadership narrative that works across healthcare systems, organisations and markets. My work is grounded in public health and health economics, with an MSc from Queen Mary University of London, and increasingly focused on responsible innovation and AI adoption across healthcare regulation, medical communications and clinical decision support. I am a Fellow of the Royal College of Midwives, a Florence Nightingale Scholar and a Leadership Fellow at St George’s House, Windsor Castle.
National Head of Midwifery Clinical Workforce
NHS (England)
October 2023 - April 2026
Work with government and a wide range of stakeholders and partners to shape national workforce policy and delivery for maternity—bringing clinical, operational and analytics teams together to improve staffing models, governance and assurance. Produced pragmatic guidance, dashboards and checklists used by multiple trusts; supported board-level decision-making and external scrutiny. Partnered with national programmes (maternity & neonatal, safer staffing) to align standards, data and improvement work. Performance Dashboards, Asynchronous work and +6 skills
National Lead for Maternity Clinical Workforce
NHS (England)
April 2022 - October 2023
Co-designed operating models and assurance approaches; translated policy into implementable pathways and artefacts non-technical teams can adopt. Authored/curated assessment items, SOPs and training content for national adoption. Performance Dashboards, Asynchronous work and +4 skills
National Adviser for Midwifery International Recruitment
NHS (England)
July 2021 - April 2022
Responsible for the National Midwifery IR programme
Consultant Midwife for Public Health and Intrapartum Services
Barts Health NHS Trust
August 2014 - April 2022
Consultant Midwife and Deputy Associate Director of Midwifery at Barts Health, one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, serving 2.5 million people across one of the most diverse populations in the country. Strategic clinical leadership across the maternal and neonatal public health agenda and the implementation of the Better Births national strategy. Co-led the commissioning, design, implementation and ongoing monitoring of maternity immunisation services, including maternal pertussis (Tdap), maternal influenza and neonatal BCG. Accountable for programme uptake, equitable access and real-world delivery across a large, diverse urban population, including engagement of underserved and vaccine-hesitant groups. Led service improvement across flow, triage, induction, scheduling and elective pathways, and designed new clinical pathways including midwife-led newborn discharge, Birth Options and Birth Reflections, and enhanced support for vulnerable women (Maternity Mates). Strengthened clinical governance through risk registers, incident learning, audit cycles and CNST evidence assembly, improving compliance, safety and staff experience. Line-managed multidisciplinary teams and led workforce planning and change management.
National Quality Standards Adviser
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
December 2013 - April 2014
Asynchronous work, Healthcare Analytics and +1 skill
UK Lead Reasearch Midwife - NIHR portfolio RCT
Queen Mary University of London
November 2013 - August 2014
Performance Dashboards, Asynchronous work and +2 skills
Maternity Manager
Barts Health NHS Trust
July 2012 - July 2014
Healthcare Services Manager for +2 years. Day-to-day service management (staffing, rotas, demand/capacity, escalation); introduced simple visual controls and daily reviews to stabilise flow and quality. Performance Dashboards, Asynchronous work and +5 skills
Senior Midwife
Barts Health NHS Trust
April 2009 - July 2012
Performance Dashboards, Asynchronous work and +5 skills
Midwife
Barts Health NHS Trust
April 2007 - April 2009
Critical Care Nurse
NHS
December 2003 - July 2005
Education
University of Oxford
Policy Evaluation and Health Econometrics, Healthcare policy and economics
2025 - 2025
Florence Nightingale Foundation
Senior Scholarship, Leadership
2023 - 2024
Senior Cohort of the FNF leadership scholarship.
Queen Mary, University of London
MSc, Public Health and Health Economics
2010 - 2013
Public Health, Clinical Research and +1 skill
City University
BSc, Midwifery
2005 - 2007
Midwifery degree
Universidad de Sevilla
BSc, Nursing
2000 - 2003
Nursing degree
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Overall Rating
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