Deputy Director of Finance

Job overview

This is a rare chance to join Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as Deputy Chief Finance Officer, supporting transformation and strategic reset.

The role, reporting to Craig Carter, Chief Finance Officer, involves leading financial management, strategic planning, governance, and risk. You’ll develop medium-term financial plans focused on sustainability, engagement, and robust stewardship, not just short-term control. The position requires translating financial risk into organisational priorities, aligning operational decisions with strategy, and providing constructive leadership across clinical and corporate teams.

You’ll play a key role in the Lancashire & South Cumbria system, driving collective sustainability and system-wide efficiencies, supporting partners through One LSC, and shifting the Trust towards planned, insight-driven transformation. This is ideal for someone motivated by impact, partnership, and modernising finance functions, offering the chance to make a significant, lasting contribution.

Main duties of the job

About You

You will be a CCAB-qualified finance professional with substantial experience in senior NHS finance or a similarly complex environment.

You will bring:

• A strong grounding in operational finance, with the ability to oversee rigorous financial control, governance, reporting and assurance.
• Strategic capability, using insight, data and foresight to inform medium-term planning, risk assessment and system collaboration.
• The ability to build trust and confidence across executives, clinicians, operational colleagues and system partners.
• Leadership that is values-driven, inclusive and focused on developing others, creating clarity and momentum across the finance function.
• Resilience and adaptability, working effectively in a complex, fast-evolving context where financial grip must sit alongside innovation and transformation.

Above all, you will model the Trust’s values and behaviours — promoting openness, collaboration, accountability and a ‘one team’ approach to decision-making.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

What We Offer

Joining LTH means becoming part of a forward-thinking and supportive leadership community with a real commitment to improvement and financial sustainability.

You will have the opportunity to:

• Shape the modernisation and future direction of the finance function
• Influence trust-wide transformation, recovery and performance
• Lead on significant organisational and system financial priorities
• Work in a culture that values development, flexibility and partnership
• Make a meaningful, long-term contribution to patients, staff and the regional health system

This is a role for an ambitious senior finance leader ready to step into a broad, stretching and rewarding deputy CFO position.