Divisional Finance Partner - Bank

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Chesterfield; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Divisional Finance Partner - Bank to lead a financial management team and provide expert financial advice to divisions. The role focuses on budget setting, forecasting expenditure and income, and maximising income while supporting transformation savings and business case development.

It recruits within a bank contract framework and requires NHS financial experience.

Qualifications

• Senior financial management experience.
• Evidence of leadership development.
• NHS experience preferred.
• Fully CCAB qualified.

Responsibilities

• Lead a financial management team in the division.
• Provide financial advice and reporting to drive savings.
• Develop budgets and forecasts, and business cases.
• Support transformation programme delivery.
• Collaborate with divisional leadership for financial governance.

Skills

Senior financial management

NHS experience

Leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical thinking

Education

Fully CCAB qualified

Tools

Financial information systems

Job description

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Divisional Finance Partner - Bank

The closing date is 18 October 2026

DSFS Ltd are seeking to recruit a successful candidate into the position of Finance Partner. The role will support the Financial Management Function, supporting and working closely with divisional and finance colleagues.Building good working relationships withcolleagues will be important.

You will be an integral member of Senior Finance team, working closely with divisional leadership teams and their divisional colleagues to provide a comprehensive range of specialist and expert financial advice, training and support to enable the delivery of services efficiently and economically, as well as ensuring the achievement of all company financial targets.

Work within a financial management team providing direct financial support to the group, ensuring full compliance with financial best practice

Please note this is a Zero Hours Bank Worker agreement contract

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship, any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered

Interview date TBC

Main duties of the job

Lead a financial management team providing direct financial support to the division, ensuring full compliance with financial best practice, specifically in relation to:

Budget setting and reportingForecasting of expenditure, activity, and incomeMaximisation of incomeDelivery of Transformation Programme savingsBusiness case developmentActivity and capacity planning and service developments

Contribute to and influence the operational effectiveness and efficiency of the division, ensuring effective accounting and operational management systems are in place to facilitate financial governance and control.

Analyse, interpret and communicate highly complex financial information to non-financial managers in a manner that is clear and effective to facilitate effective decision making and service development.

Lead on identifying and disseminating the financial impact of business cases and developments.

Take a lead role in the identification and development of divisional transformation programmes, monitoring their achievement and evaluating their successes to ensure they meet the strategic objectives of the trust in terms of financial and quality outcomes.

Play a key leadership role within the organisation.

As a member of the senior team contribute fully and effectively to the development and delivery of company strategies.

About us

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Ltd. (DSFS) is a subsidiary company that's 100% owned by Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

DSFS has just over 900 staff across Soft and Hard Facilities Services, and our corporate services including, ICT, Patient Records, Switchboard, Procurement, Finance and Clinical Engineering. Very much part of the 'Chesterfield Royal family', DSFS builds on solid NHS foundations to offer a more commercial approach that's dynamic, flexible, and proactive.

DSFS are proud to be striving to achieve a truly diverse and inclusive flexible workforce by valuing and welcoming everyone's abilities, uniqueness, and individuality. All our colleagues have the right to and should be able to feel 100% themselves at work; we believe that all our people add to and should improve our culture and not just fit in with it. By embracing our diverse backgrounds and differences our culture becomes richer and makes us stronger together.

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship, any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered

Job responsibilities

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached to this vacancy. This document contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are along with the criteria that is required.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

• Experience in a senior financial management role.
• Evidence of on-going professional or personal development, e.g., Continuing Professional Development
• Evidence of leadership development.
• Fully CCAB qualified

Experience

• Experience of a wide range of financial accounting and information systems and accounting procedures with a large complex organisation.
• Experience at a senior level in a highly complex financial environment.
• Experience of modelling the financial impact of service pathway design.
• Experience of developing income, expenditure, and activity forecasts, including the modelling of different scenarios.
• Expert analytical skills to solve highly complex financial and non-financial problems.
• Track record of financial and non-financial achievements
• Experience of leading, managing & developing teams.
• NHS experience.
• Knowledge/Experience of working outside organisational boundaries in a wider system
• Awareness of Patient Level Costing

Skills and Knowledge

• Ability to interpret highly complex information, including national financial policies, using skills knowledge and judgement
• Developed influencing and negotiation skills.
• Active listening skills, to interpret managers needs and issues.
• Support and participate in leading and shaping the vision of the Finance Team
• Ability to forge and maintain constructive relationships with senior managers and to constructively challenge and hold to account in relation to financial decision making and subsequent consequences
• Ability to express facts, ideas and opinions clearly and directly both orally and in writing to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Understanding of NHS national context, policies, payment structures and other strategic issues.

Personal Attributes

• Effective team worker
• Highly proactive
• Ability to work autonomously
• Resilient
• Motivated to work in the NHS
• Caring
• Confident with a positive attitude.
• Professional work approach

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.

Employer name

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Depending on experienceSalary range dependant on experience, starting from £55,445

Contract

Bank

Working pattern

Full-time,Part-time,Flexible working,Home or remote working