Chief Finance Officer

Overview

Reporting directly to the Chief Executive and a key member of the Board, you will play a central role in creating the financial and estates environment underpinning our capabilities to deliver on our vision and ambitions as we start to deliver our new Trust Strategy.

We are seeking a skilled and professional leader with the experience and ambition to drive excellence in financial management, providing visible and transformational professional leadership of financial services and planning, procurement, business intelligence and estates and facilities. As we are a new build hospital significant experience of effectively managing PFI contracts is essential. We are grateful to have the support of a proactive and successful charity and the successful candidate will provide strategic leadership to the RPH Charity team.

We are looking for someone who has the ability to understand complex organisational and strategic issues, identify the key issues and then communicate them in a way that's clear for a range of different audiences. As a naturally compassionate and inclusive leader, you will live and breathe our values and have the vision and drive to help us improve the experience of our staff, creating for them a working environment that is supportive, compassionate, inclusive and equitable where their contribution is valued.

The successful candidate will continue the development of the Finance function and people within it to build on our level 3 accreditation with One NHS Finance.

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions.

Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

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