Job summary
- Main area
- Finance
- Grade
- DSFS Grade G
- Contract
- Bank: The team operates a hybrid working model of 3 days on-site and 2 days working from home each week. The role is advertised as full time permanent, however, we are open to conversations around other flexible options. This role can be upto full time hours whilst we work through our financial sustainability plans
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working
- Job ref
- 166-DSFS-8313472
- Employer
- Derbyshire Support Facilities Services
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Chesterfield Royal Hospital
- Town
- Chesterfiled
- Salary
- Salary range dependant on experience, starting from £55,445
- Closing
- 18/10/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Divisional Finance Partner - Bank
DSFS Grade G
Job overview
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 with colleagues 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 reporting
Forecasting of expenditure, activity, and income
Maximisation of income
Delivery of Transformation Programme savings
Business case development
Activity 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.
Working for our organisation
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
Detailed job description and main 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
Essential criteria
- Part CCAB qualified.
- Experience in a senior financial management role.
- Evidence of on-going professional or personal development, e.g., Continuing Professional Development
- Evidence of leadership development.
Desirable criteria
- Fully CCAB qualified
- Postgraduate degree level educatio
Experience
Essential criteria
- 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.
Desirable criteria
- NHS experience.
- Knowledge/Experience of working outside organisational boundaries in a wider system
- Awareness of Patient Level Costing
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- 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.
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of NHS national context, policies, payment structures and other strategic issues.
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- 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
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Ryan Eastman
- Job title
- Head of Financial Management
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01246 514566
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