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Essential
16 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Qualifications
Educated to degree level, ideally masters, or equivalent experience
- Qualifications
A recognised professional accountancy qualification (CIMA, CIPFA or CCAB equivalent).
- Knowledge and experience
Significant senior financial leadership experience within a complex healthcare organisation (ideally NHS), with accountability for financial performance and control against national, regional, and local standards
- Knowledge and experience
Demonstrable record of delivering financial performance against plans, including delivery of cost improvement programmes and effective management of income and expenditure
- Knowledge and experience
Experience of operating at Board / Executive level, contributing to organisational strategy, governance and assurance, and effective decision making
- Knowledge and experience
Experience of building and maintaining effective partnerships across health and care systems, including commissioners, provider partners, and wider stakeholders
- Knowledge and experience
Understanding of the role of digital, data and operational intelligence in improving quality, performance, and productivity
- Knowledge and experience
Experience of working with, or oversight of, commercial operations, subsidiaries, and/or joint ventures, ensuring alignment with NHS priorities and governance requirements
- Skills, abilities and personal qualities
Strategic and operational financial leadership capability
- Skills, abilities and personal qualities
Robust performance management and improvement skills, including the ability to use data, assurance reporting, and predictive insight to drive productivity and quality improvement
- Skills, abilities and personal qualities
High-level influencing and stakeholder management skills, with credibility to represent the Trust and build trusted partnerships across systems
- Skills, abilities and personal qualities
Commitment to robust governance and risk management, ensuring effective controls, accountability, and assurance
- Skills, abilities and personal qualities
Visible, inclusive, and compassionate leadership style that promotes an open culture, empowers teams and role-models high professional standards
- Skills, abilities and personal qualities
Ability to develop leadership capability and talent, including succession planning and performance development
- Skills, abilities and personal qualities
Commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion, and to reducing health inequalities through population health approaches and neighbourhood-based models of care
- Skills, abilities and personal qualities
Resilience and personal effectiveness to operate in a high-profile, high accountability role, managing competing priorities and delivering through others
Desirable
Not listed in the available specification.
Job overview
Direct recruitment only, no agencies please
We are seeking an exceptional and accomplished leader who is currently serving as Chief Finance Officer or is an experienced Deputy Chief Finance Officer within a comparable organisation.
As Chief Finance Officer, you will be a key member of the Trust’s Board of Directors and Executive Team. Reporting directly to the Chief Executive, you will provide excellent strategic leadership, direction and advice on finance-related matters and key business decisions ensuring the Trust fulfils all statutory requirements. You will play an essential role in discussions and negotiations with commissioners for existing and future contracts.
Experience of working with joint ventures and/or subsidiaries would be advantageous.
Main duties of the job
For this pivotal role, we are seeking an individual who can demonstrate ambition for the Trust and its intention to make an application to become and Advanced Foundation Trust alongside a proven track record as a senior finance leader. You will be ready to contribute across the breadth of the Board's agenda including strategy development
You will provide strong, visible, compassionate and values-based leadership and bring a deep commitment to equalities and anti-racism. You will possess excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills. An active commitment to the values and ethos of the Trust, with a focus on delivering quality services for our patients, is vital.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Candidates interested in this critical post should download the Recruitment Pack for further details and how to apply.
Candidates should apply for this role by completing an application form and providing a CV as well as providing a covering letter to amy.tunna@nhs.net.
Confidential conversations with Joan Spencer, Chief Executive Officer are welcome. Please contact L.fazakerley@nhs.net to arrange.
Interviews are scheduled for 30 September 2026.
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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