Chief Financial Officer

Job overview

Are you an experienced finance leader, who is vibrant, visible, inclusive, and collaborative? Would you be willing to push the boundaries on traditional thinking?  If the answer is ‘yes’ then this could be the executive leadership role for you…

We are a University teaching hospital Trust providing community and hospital services across the Morecambe Bay area – covering one thousand square miles in South Cumbria and North Lancashire. We are seeking an Executive Chief Finance Officer to play a lead role in ensuring the delivery of the Trust’s strategic priorities and that we achieve our goals -  to provide the highest possible standards of compassionate care, whilst ensuring the very best patient and colleague experience.

Your experience and innovative thinking combined with experience of working successfully across an integrated care system and with delivery partners, will be essential as we work across the Bay and Lancashire and South Cumbria to improve health equity, services and outcomes for our communities in line with the Governments 10 year health plan.

We  believe  that  the  NHS  workforce  is  a  rich  and  diverse  mix  of  talented  people, and  we welcome   applications   for  this position   from  all nursing specialties and all sections of our community, particularly from under-represented groups, including disabled people and Nurse leaders of BAME backgrounds and those with lived experience that will  help us to better understand and deliver.

Main duties of the job

The Chief Finance Officer will be a visible, inclusive and collaborative executive leader, ensuring delivery of the Trust's vision to provide the highest possible standards of compassionate care; the very best patient and colleague experience; and to listen to and involve patients, colleagues and carers.

This role is a member of our Unitary Board and as such is an executive director first and a portfolio holder second, working with the team to deliver the Trust strategy and having Board level responsibility for the overall delivery of financial management, financial planning / financial strategy and procurement support to the Trust. This specifically includes the design and stewardship of credible financial policies, procedures, practices and reporting regime through to the Board of Directors.

You will build collegiate and solution focused relationships with all system partners, in particular chief finance officers, to ensure that we provide services and deliver results for the benefit of all of the communities we collectively serve.  You will be a critical part of our transformation to a Place-Based organisation.

Through the relevant relationships established through One LSC you will also have specific responsibilities for financial and procurement systems, policies and processes .

For further information about the process, making your application please contact Will Griffiths at Seymour John  - [email protected] / 07818693596

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay visiting our website https://www.uhmb.nhs.uk/