Senior Finance Business Partner | Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust

Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust; Maidstone; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health care provider in Maidstone seeks a Senior Finance Business Partner to provide strategic leadership and manage financial resources. The role involves acting as a senior finance lead on projects, ensuring accurate reporting for decision-making, and leading annual financial planning. Ideal candidates will be fully qualified finance professionals with knowledge of NHS contracting. Join a passionate team focused on improving mental health care across Kent and Medway in a hybrid work environment.

Benefits

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

NHS pension scheme

Flexible working options

Learning and Development opportunities

Car and cycle lease schemes

Qualifications

• Must have substantial experience working as a qualified finance professional.
• Ability to work independently and build strong relationships.
• Strong understanding of NHS contracting and income.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic business leadership to Directorates.
• Act as senior finance lead on Trust-wide projects.
• Ensure accuracy of monthly reports for management decisions.
• Lead annual financial business planning within assigned Directorates.

Skills

Financial leadership

Stakeholder management

NHS contracting knowledge

Education

Qualified finance professional (AQA, ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA)

Job description

Overview

Are you a finance professional seeking a new role? Have you ever considered a career in the NHS?
Are you interested in supporting our services to provide high-quality care to the Kent & Medway population?
We are seeking a Senior Finance Business Partner, read on to find out more about this new, exciting opportunity.

Our current Hybrid working policy is 20% office-based, 80% home-based. For this role, 1 day per week will be worked on varying Trust sites.

Please note no agencies

Senior Finance Business Partner Benefits

• Annual leave allowance starting at 27 days per year per annum, increasing with length of service (when working full time) + Bank Holidays.
• Access to the fantastic NHS pension scheme.
• Eligibility for the Blue Light Card (discount service for the NHS, providing members with thousands of amazing discounts online and on the high street).
• Realistic flexible working options.
• Lease car Scheme/Cycle to work scheme
• Learning and Development opportunities
• Structured appraisal and talent management processes

Senior Finance Business Partner Key Responsibilities

• Provide strategic business leadership to Directorate Management Teams, ensuring effective use of financial resources in pursuit of agreed Directorate and Corporate goals.
• Act as the senior finance lead on Trust-wide projects, providing strategic advice and input, including constructive challenge to a range of stakeholders.
• Support a cohesive approach to income, activity, expenditure and workforce monitoring
• Ensure monthly reports are robust so that key management decisions are based on accurate business information and all risks are assessed.
• Lead, plan, coordinate and implement all aspects of the annual financial business plan within the assigned Directorates.

Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience

Senior Finance Business Partner candidates must have a strong understanding of NHS contracting and income, substantial experience of working as a qualified finance professional, and the ability to work independently and build strong working relationships with partners and external colleagues.

Candidates must be fully qualified (AQA, ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA).

NHS experience is not essential, so please apply if you feel your skills and experience align to our requirements.

We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway. Our teams support adults with a wide range of mental health needs. Because we cover the whole county and both hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the 1.8 million people of Kent and Medway. Rated ‘Good’ by the CQC, we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 in the community each year.

Our vision is simple: We are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It’s why we’re passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. And everything we do is guided by our values caring, inclusive, curious and confident.

Join us - if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that’s doing well together.

Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the main responsibilities of the role.

At KMPT, we are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.

This advert closes on Sunday 4 Jan 2026