Chief Financial Officer

Job overview

Are you an experienced finance leader, who is vibrant, visible, inclusive, and collaborative? Would you be willing to push the boundaries on traditional thinking? If the answer is ‘yes’ then this could be the executive leadership role for you…

We are a University teaching hospital Trust providing community and hospital services across the Morecambe Bay area – covering one thousand square miles in South Cumbria and North Lancashire. We are seeking an Executive Chief Finance Officer to play a lead role in ensuring the delivery of the Trust’s strategic priorities and that we achieve our goal to provide the highest possible standards of compassionate care, whilst ensuring the very best patient and colleague experience.

Your experience and innovative thinking combined with experience of working successfully across an integrated care system and with delivery partners will be essential as we work to improve health equity, services and outcomes for our communities in line with the Government’s 10‑year health plan.

The Chief Finance Officer will be a visible, inclusive and collaborative executive leader, ensuring delivery of the Trust's vision to provide the highest possible standards of compassionate care; the very best patient and colleague experience; and to listen to and involve patients, colleagues and carers.

This role is a member of our Unitary Board and as such is an executive director first and a portfolio holder second, working with the team to deliver the Trust strategy and having Board level responsibility for the overall delivery of financial management, financial planning / financial strategy and procurement support to the Trust. This specifically includes the design and stewardship of credible financial policies, procedures, practices and reporting regime through to the Board of Directors.

You will build collegiate and solution‑focused relationships with all system partners, in particular chief finance officers, to ensure that we provide services and deliver results for the benefit of all of the communities we collectively serve. You will be a critical part of our transformation to a Place‑Based organisation.

Through the relevant relationships established through One LSC you will also have specific responsibilities for financial and procurement systems, policies and processes.

We operate from three main hospitals – Furness General Hospital (FGH) in Barrow, the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI), and Westmorland General Hospital (WGH) in Kendal – as well as a number of community healthcare premises including Millom Hospital, GP Practice, Queen Victoria Hospital in Morecambe and Ulverston Community Health Centre.

FGH and the RLI have a range of General Hospital services, with full Emergency Departments, Critical/Coronary Care units and various consultant‑led services.

WGH provides a range of General Hospital services, together with an Urgent Treatment Centre, that can help with a range of non‑life threatening conditions such as broken bones and minor illnesses.

All three main hospitals provide a range of planned care including outpatients, diagnostics, therapies, daycase and inpatient surgery. In addition, a range of local outreach services and diagnostics are provided from community facilities across Morecambe Bay.

For further information about the advertised role, and the main job duties and responsibilities, please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more about University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay on our website:

• Essential requirements of person specification

The Trust promotes flexible working opportunities where ever possible to enable staff to balance their work and home life. We are committed to Equal Opportunities and aim to be Effortlessly Inclusive.

The trust operates a No Smoking Policy.

Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our Person Specification will be shortlisted for Interview.

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