Chief Finance Officer

Integrated Care System; Blackpool; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in Blackpool seeks a Chief Finance Officer to lead financial strategies aimed at achieving sustainability and significant savings. This role involves working closely with internal and external stakeholders to enhance financial management. The ideal candidate will have robust experience at the Board level within the NHS and a strong track record in financial and change management. This permanent, full-time position offers a salary between £100,000 and £200,000 depending on experience.

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a Board level Finance Director in the NHS.
• Proven track record in achieving financial savings.
• Ability to implement process improvements in complex settings.

Responsibilities

• Lead financial management and development functions.
• Contribute to corporate management and strategic direction.
• Drive financial sustainability plans across the organization.

Skills

Financial management

Strategic decision-making

Change management

Team leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Education

CCAB Accountancy qualification

Masters Level education

Tools

Lean techniques

Six Sigma methods

Job description

Go back Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Chief Finance Officer

The closing date is 31 August 2025

This is an exciting time to join the Executive Team at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as we continue our improvement journey.We are proud of our recent improvements, however, we recognise the opportunities and ongoing challenges facing our Trust and wider health and care partners.

The Chief Finance Officer (CFO) will lead an ambitious programme to deliver significant financial savings in 25/26 and 26/27 with a view to achieving financial balance in 26/27. This will involve working closely with colleagues across the organisation on waste reduction plans, grip and control and improving run rates, as well as working with the wider system.

In taking on this important role, you will bring energy, talent and innovation to support the further development and implementation of the Trust's financial sustainability plan.

Main duties of the job

The Chief Finance Officer is responsible for the leadership, management, and development of the following functions: financial management, digital transformation and information technology, ensuring that the relevant objectives within the overall Trust Strategy are achieved.

As an Executive Director of the Trust Board and a member of the Executive Team, the Chief Finance Officer will contribute to the corporate management and strategic direction of the Trust.

About us

We are an organisation of scale and complexity with a workforce in excess of 8500 employees. As a large, integrated provider of acute and community services to a 445,000-strong population of the Fylde Coast and an estimated 11 million visitors to the seaside town of Blackpool, your leadership as Chief Financial Officer will impact the health outcomes of a complex and diverse population.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals is a challenged provider on a defined improvement journey and the expectations on this Executive Director will be significant, however regulators have consistently recognised colleagues in both hospital and community services for demonstrating our Trusts Values of Caring, Safe and Respectful. As CFO you will inherit a great team of people who will help every step of the way.

You'll have the support of the Chief Executive and a Trust Board of talented and experienced Executive and Non-Executive Directors who will encourage and champion your ideas and successes.

Job responsibilities

We recognise that if our Chief Finance Officer is going to achieve genuine and lasting change, they will need outstanding communication, networking, and engagement skills, with a dynamic, patient centric approach that promotes a culture placing safety, quality, and outcomes at the heart of everything we do.

For further information, please review the attached Job Description and Person specification for more detailed duties and responsibilities for the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Personal Development

• Possession of CCAB Accountancy qualification
• Evidence of continuous personal and professional development
• Educated to Masters Level or equivalent analytical and critical thinking skills
• Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of a range of improvement procedures and practices

Experience

• Significant experience as a Board level Finance Director in the NHS, preferably within the provider sector
• Able to demonstrate a proven track record of achievement in the role of Finance Director
• Experience of all aspects of financial management in the NHS
• Ability to identify, analyse, design and implement process improvement activities in highly complex settings
• A proven track record of strategic, operational, or corporate service management and delivery at a senior level in a large, complex environment, including staff management, change management and quality improvement.
• Proven ability to build relationships including key relationships with Executive and senior leaders where there may be significant resistance to change
• Ability to influence people for change and develop the right relations using a collaborative approach
• Must be able to settle differences, be diplomatic, gain trust and negotiate skilfully with both internal and external groups
• Demonstrates understanding knowledge of FT/public sector governance
• Demonstrates a good understanding of NHS changes and future organisational changes. Good understanding of public accountability
• Experience of delivering large scale efficiency programmes
• Proven track record and relentless drive for continuous improvement and overcoming barriers and resistance to change
• Proven ability to transform an organisation to deliver long term operational and/or clinical performance
• Experience in methods of improvement and theories of change. Clear evidence of formal training and successful application of lean and six sigma techniques including Lean problem solving, process mapping and basic analytical tools
• Proven expert knowledge of 5S, Rapid Improvement Events, Value Stream Mapping, Visual Management, Root Cause Analysis, Error-proofing and other proven improvement approaches
• Successful track record of managing complex work/change management programmes

Leadership and Management Style

• Dynamic, open, participative and supportive leadership and management style
• Ability to inspire
• Team builder
• Ability to delegate
• Able to make decisions and take charge of events through a performance management approach
• Strong facilitation skills with proven ability in leading projects to deliver positive outcomes Advanced interpersonal skills to deliver highly complex, sensitive and contentious corporate messages
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Highly developed leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams across professional boundaries, and have the and your performance expectations
• Demonstrable political judgement and astuteness in understanding and working with complex policy, and diverse interest groups, and good judgment in knowing when to escalate and take immediate action
• Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovative service delivery
• Ability to communicate and present highly complex information at Board level
• Well-developed intellectual and analytical skills
• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• Ability to use initiative appropriately
• Strategic ability linked to financial and staff management

Special Aptitudes and Competencies

• Outstanding personal impact, drive, enthusiasm, commitment and presence
• Excellent communication, analytical and presentation skills
• Ability to manage multiple complex agendas and meet deadlines
• Ability to recognise and value cultural and other differences, using them positively
• Drive to succeed against exacting standards of excellence
• Vision and forward planning ability
• Flexible to meet the needs of the service
• Ability to undertake cross site working
• Strategic vision and planning

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£100,000 to £200,000 a yearDependant on Experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

382-COR20-25

Job locations

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust