Deputy Director of Finance | Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Lancashire Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Preston; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A major NHS trust in the UK is seeking a Deputy Chief Finance Officer to lead financial management and strategic planning. The role involves overseeing financial control, aligning financial risk with organizational priorities, and aiding transformation across clinical and corporate teams. This is an opportunity for an ambitious finance professional with a CCAB qualification and experience in a senior NHS finance environment to make a significant impact on healthcare delivery.

Benefits

Leadership development opportunities

Collaborative work culture

Commitment to financial sustainability

Qualifications

• Experience in senior NHS finance or a complex environment.
• Ability to oversee rigorous financial control and governance.
• Proven strategic planning and risk assessment skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead financial management and strategic planning.
• Translate financial risk into organizational priorities.
• Drive collective sustainability and system-wide efficiencies.

Skills

Operational finance oversight

Strategic capability

Building trust across teams

Inclusive leadership

Resilience and adaptability

Education

CCAB qualification

Job description

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.

About You

You will be aCCAB-qualifiedfinance 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 confidenceacross 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.

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. We are 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.

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.

• 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.

This advert closes on Sunday 14 Dec 2025