Job summary
- Main area
- Finance
- Grade
- Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 985-BC-DCFO-VSM-AA-001
- Employer
- West and North London ICB
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Marylebone Road
- Town
- London
- Salary
- TBC
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Deputy CFO
Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM
If you are looking for a varied, challenging and rewarding role, West and North London offers an excellent opportunity to make a real difference to local residents.
This is an exciting time to work in commissioning as the NHS continues to evolve. We support career development at every stage and encourage staff to build on their strengths through ongoing learning and training opportunities.
We work closely with partner organisations across West and North London to deliver the best possible care for local communities and remain committed to equality and diversity.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a set of technology that can perform various tasks that typically required human intelligence. Your application is your opportunity to demonstrate to us how you meet the requirements of the role.
We recognise that AI tools can support accessibility, equity and confidence for applicants. However, it’s important that examples and responses genuinely reflect your own experience and abilities, as these will be explored further during the selection process. AI must not be used to provide misleading or false information during any stage of the application journey.
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West and North London Integrated Care Board is committed to ensuring that its recruitment processes are carried out with integrity, transparency, and fairness for all applicants. To help maintain these standards, we ask candidates to provide accurate and truthful information throughout the recruitment process.
If incorrect or misleading information is identified, this may affect the progression of an application, any employment offer, or continued employment. As part of our due diligence, the company may verify the information provided by applicants and take appropriate action where necessary.
Applicants can refer to the Fraud Act 2006 for further information: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/35/contents
Job overview
The Deputy Chief Finance Officer (DCFO) supports the Chief Finance Officer (CFO) in developing and delivering the financial strategy of NHS West and North London Integrated Care Board (ICB) in its role as a strategic commissioner of health and care services.
The post holder provides delegated executive leadership for system financial planning, stewardship and assurance, ensuring commissioning resources are deployed to maximise population health outcomes, reduce health inequalities and deliver sustainable value for money. The DCFO will deputise for the CFO as required.
Please note that priority will be given to WNL ICB employees who are affected by the Change Programme, i.e. have an at risk or ring-fence status and this role is a Suitable Alternative Employment (SAE) role, i.e. same band or one band below.
Main duties of the job
West and North London ICB is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We strive to ensure our workforce reflects the rich diversity of the communities we serve, and we strongly encourage applications from candidates from underrepresented groups
We recognise that a healthy work-life balance is essential to the wellbeing and productivity of our staff.
We aim to consider all flexible working requests in a fair and open way, balancing the needs of our organisation with those of our employees. By fostering a flexible working culture, we strive to create an environment where everyone can thrive and contribute to delivering high-quality services for our communities.
Working for our organisation
We are NHS West and North London. We are the main commissioning NHS organisation for planning and funding health services across our area. Our job is simple: to help people stay healthy and to make sure everyone can get good care when they need it.
We bring together many health and care services across west and north London. This means we help hospitals, GPs, community services, councils and charities work better together for local people.
NHS West and North London (WNL) serves over 4.5 million people and covers 13 London boroughs. (Barnet, Brent, Camden, Ealing, Enfield, Hammersmith & Fulham, Haringey, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Islington, Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster)
What we do
- We plan and fund local health and care services
- We support GPs, hospitals, mental health teams, community clinics and pharmacies.
- We work with councils and community groups so care is joined-up and easy to use.
- We listen to local people and use their ideas to improve services.
- We want health and care to be fair, simple and close to home.
Our strategy
- Reducing inequalities
- Investing strategically to prevent ill health
- Better supporting people with the greatest needs, so everyone stays well
- Make care more local and easier to access
- Empowered local people that feel more confident about their health and wellbeing
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key responsibilities of the Deputy Chief Finance Officer
· Financial leadership & strategy: Provides expert advice and leads the development of strategic financial plans to ensure sustainability, value for money, and alignment with wider system goals.
· Governance, control & risk management: Oversees financial reporting, audit, internal controls, counter-fraud activity, and risk management to ensure proper, lawful, and efficient use of resources.
· Planning & performance oversight: Leads financial planning processes, including annual plans, recovery plans, commissioning intentions, and ensures alignment between strategy, performance, and operations.
· Business case evaluation: Assesses new and existing investments to ensure delivery of expected outcomes, affordability, and corrective action where needed.
· Stakeholder engagement & system leadership: Works with external partners and internal teams to support collaboration, negotiation, and a financially sustainable local health economy.
· Finance function leadership: Deputises for the CFO, leads and develops the finance function as a professional network, ensuring consistency, capability, and effective delegation across teams.
· Collaboration & communication: Ensures strong links across finance, planning, and operational teams to maintain alignment between local and system-wide priorities.
· Strategic influence: Actively contributes to corporate strategy, shaping decisions to strengthen long-term financial resilience.
Person specification
Education/ Knowledge and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Educated to degree level with a Masters or equivalent qualification or experience.
- • Full member of one of the individual CCAB bodies or CIMA maintaining registration and CPD requirements
- • Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
Desirable criteria
- • Project Management Qualification
Communication
Essential criteria
- • Outstanding communication, negotiation and relationship management skills
- • Resilient, flexible and adaptable
- • Integrity and professionalism
- • Team player
- • Patient focussed
- • Works autonomously within pre-set deadlines and parameters
- • Proven ability to prioritise and solve problems under own initiative
- • Able to think conceptually in order to plan flexibly for the longer term and continually identify opportunities for improvement
- • Demonstrable commitment to continuously improve outcomes tackling health inequalities and delivering the best value for money for the tax payer
- • Embraces effective governance, accountability and stewardship of public money and demonstrates an understanding of the principles of good scrutiny
- • Demonstrates commitment to clinical commissioning, the ICBs and to the wider interests of the health service
- • Demonstrable ability to exercise sound judgement and the confidence to question and challenge information form others who may be experts in their field.
- • Ability to understand the limits of his or her management competencies and the wisdom to seek advice when these are reached
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Steve Bloomer
- Job title
- Chief Finance Officer
- Email address
- [email protected]
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