Deputy Director of Finance

Deputy Director of Finance

The closing date is 14 December 2025

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.

The interviews will take place on Thursday 18 December 2025. Please ensure that you are available for interview for the whole day. No alternative dates will be offered.

Main duties of the job About You

You will be a CCAB qualified finance 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 confidence across 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.

About us

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.

Job responsibilities 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.

Person Specification Qualifications - Academic / Professional

• General education to degree level or equivalent work experience operating at Master level or equivalent experience.
• Qualified Accountant with a recognised CCAB accountancy body.

Skills, Knowledge Requirements & Experience

• Experience as very senior Finance Officer within a large complex NHS organisation or specifically within an Acute Hospital / NHS Community Trust
• Relevant experience of working in complex NHS organisations or systems.
• A proven ability to deliver consistently to NHS standards of operational performance.
• A track record of leading programmes of change including outcome improvement and cost reduction.
• Experience of leading contractual and procurement processes
• Knowledge of current national and Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS / Care systems
• A solid and evident understanding of NHS dynamics and the values of the UK public sector.
• Experience of working within a national or regional context in the NHS or other relevant areas.

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.

£109,179 to £125,637 a year, per annum, pro rata.