# Head of Financial Recovery PMO

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Kettering General Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Project manager
- **Grade:** Band 8
- **Salary:** £66582.00 to £77368.00
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-22T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-19T10:08:10.833Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8368135
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8368135?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.kgh.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen at UHN for an experienced, dynamic, qualified accountant to join the Corporate Reporting Team.

Working with the wider financial and operational teams, the post holder will be responsible for monitoring and reporting the position for the Financial Recovery Programme. Providing support and guidance across all areas to identify, implement and monitor schemes requires the ability to effectively communicate across a wide variety of staff groups and financial knowledge.

This is a new role within the recently reviewed team structure, delivering a vital service both internally within finance and to the wider staff base across both hospitals, Kettering and Northampton.

### Main duties of the job

The Financial Recovery Programme has been established to coordinate, assure and accelerate delivery of the Trust’s financial recovery priorities while maintaining quality, safety, workforce and operational performance. You will lead the Financial Recovery PMO and provide authoritative financial and programme leadership. They will coordinate the recovery portfolio on behalf of the accountable executive and programme governance, while scheme sponsors and operational leads retain accountability for delivery and the Executive Team retains overall ownership of the Trust recovery plan.

The post holder will lead and develop the PMO function, ensuring that delivery-management systems, dashboards and reporting processes provide timely, accurate and decision focused information. They will direct the preparation of submissions, evidence packs and responses to challenge from NHS England, the relevant integrated care board and other regulators or system partners.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a full list of roles and responsibilities please see attached job description and person specification

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

## Person Specification

### Knowledge and Experience

**Essential**

- Significant post-qualification or equivalent senior experience in financial management, transformation or programme delivery within a large, complex organisation.
- Proven leadership of a complex PMO, financial recovery, turnaround or transformation portfolio, with evidence of improving delivery grip at scale.
- Experience of establishing programme governance, controls, reporting cadence, milestone and dependency management, risk and issue escalation, and disciplined decision tracking
- Practical experience of benefits-realisation assurance, including baselines, ownership, evidence, finance validation and prevention of double counting.
- Experience of using delivery-management systems, portfolio dashboards and data to identify slippage early, commission deep dives and secure corrective action.
- Experience of integrated scheme assurance across finance, workforce, activity, productivity, quality, safety and operations
- Experience of preparing high-quality submissions and evidence for executive, Board, NHS England, integrated care board or regulatory scrutiny.
- Substantial leadership and line-management experience, with a record of developing high-performing teams and capability

**Desirable**

- Experience of financial recovery or turnaround in an NHS provider or wider health system.
- Formal programme, project or benefits-management qualification.
- Experience of service line reporting, patient-level costing or productivity analytics.

### Educations, Training and Qualifications

**Essential**

- Educated to Masters level or equivalent level of education, training or experience
- Hold a professional financial qualification (CCAB/CIMA).
- Demonstrate evidence of continuing professional development.

## Documents

- [jd/ps (pdf, 477.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10695460)
- [staff privacy notice (pdf, 300.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1830)

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