Chief Finance Officer

NHS; Preston; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in the United Kingdom is seeking a Chief Finance Officer to oversee strategic financial management and drive transformational change. The ideal candidate will have substantial board-level leadership experience and a deep understanding of the healthcare landscape. This role involves delivering inclusive care strategies and optimizing resource usage to improve community health outcomes. Salary is dependent on experience, with opportunities for professional development.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with full membership and evidence of up to date continuing professional development.

Responsibilities

• Support a culture of public inclusion and involvement.
• Deliver collaboratively through partnership.
• Inspire and hold people accountable for delivery.
• Influence and support continuous improvement.

Skills

Extensive knowledge of the health, care and local government landscape and of social determinants of health

Expert understanding of strategic commissioning, oversight and control of public funds

Education

Qualified accountant (e.g. CIPFA, CIMA, ACCA, ICAEW)

Job description

Chief Finance Officer

The closing date is 08 January 2026

We are looking for leaders who will bring strong professional expertise, knowledge, insights and credibility to their portfolios and the ability to think and operate strategically, underpinned by strong personal integrity and values.

Please do not send applications through Trac and direct applications via Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board - Alumni Global.

Main duties of the job

We need leaders who enjoy delivering collaboratively through partnership and who will support a culture of public inclusion and involvement. Who can be inspirational and compassionate while holding people to account for delivery, and with the skills to effectively influence, supporting an open culture of continuous improvement, which places the resident at the heart of all we do.

About us

We commission health and care services for the 1.8 million people living in Lancashire and South Cumbria, with responsibility for spending over £5 billion on services to meet their needs and support improvement in health and wellbeing. Our population is spread over a complex geography and is extremely diverse.

This is a challenging but exciting time to join our Integrated Care Board. Despite the difficult task of halving the running and programme costs of the ICB, our new leadership structure places us in an excellent position to move forward with a vision for delivering strategic and population health focused commissioning which provides a huge opportunity to streamline how we deliver our vision to develop a community-centric health and care system. We have a blueprint of how to reconfigure the way in which clinical services are provided across the system, and we know we must work alongside our partners in local authorities, social care, education and the voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise sector to increase the provision of care in the home and community, enabled by the best use of digital technology. Delivering this vision will both improve outcomes and narrow the significant health inequalities that currently exist in our communities.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the job description for further details.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant (e.g. CIPFA, CIMA, ACCA, ICAEW) with full membership and evidence of up to date continuing professional development

Experience

• Substantial board level leadership experience and/or system leadership experience within a regulatory or similar environment leading significant transformational change
• A career in healthcare or an equivalently complex, regulated, consumer facing environment in the portfolio area
• Proven delivery of strategies that optimise resource use and achieve lasting improvement

Skills

• Extensive knowledge of the health, care and local government landscape and of social determinants of health
• Expert understanding of strategic commissioning, oversight and control of public funds

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.

Salary is dependant on experience.