Deputy Chief Finance Officer

Lancashire Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Preston; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare trust in England seeks a Deputy Chief Finance Officer who will lead financial management and strategic planning, significantly impacting healthcare transformation and sustainability in the region. Ideal candidates will be CCAB-qualified finance professionals, capable of overseeing financial control, and have substantial experience in senior finance roles within the NHS. This position invites you to shape modern finance function and contribute meaningfully to the healthcare landscape, providing a chance to make a lasting difference.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience in senior NHS finance or a similarly complex environment.
• Ability to oversee rigorous financial control, governance, reporting and assurance.
• Capability to build trust with executives, clinicians, and operational colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Lead financial management and strategic planning.
• Develop medium-term financial plans focused on sustainability.
• Drive transformation and efficiencies across the Trust.

Skills

Strategic capability

Operational finance

Leadership

Resilience and adaptability

Education

CCAB-qualified finance professional

Job description

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.

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

What 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.

Your application may close earlier than the published date if sufficient applications are received, so please apply as soon as possible. We will contact you by e‑mail to update you on the progress of your application; please check the e‑mail account you applied from (including spam/junk) regularly.

Required qualifications and experience

• You will be a CCAB‑qualified finance professional with substantial experience in senior NHS finance or a similarly complex environment.
• 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.
• Model the Trust’s values and behaviours – promoting openness, collaboration, accountability and a “one team” approach to decision‑making.

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a major provider of acute, specialist, and tertiary services across the region. We are proud of our people, our teaching hospital status, and our role within the Lancashire & South Cumbria Integrated Care System. The Trust is ambitious – clinically, operationally and financially – and is committed to delivering high‑quality, safe and sustainable services; investing in our workforce; and supporting transformation that is aligned with our long‑term strategy. As an anchor institution for the region, we play a central role in improving outcomes, reducing inequalities and developing a financially resilient future for the population we serve.

We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership, neurodiversity or veteran status are encouraged to apply for this post.