Job summary
- Main area
- Finance Executive Director
- Grade
- Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 205-7861214-VSM
- Employer
- University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Stoke University Hospital
- Town
- Stoke on Trent
- Salary
- VSM
- Closing
- 12/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Chief Finance Officer
Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM
Job overview
We have a rare and influential executive leadership opportunity for an experienced finance professional to join our Trust at a pivotal time. As our Chief Finance Officer, you will help drive transformation, ensure long-term sustainability, and support the delivery of safe and effective care for the population we serve.
The Chief Finance Officer (CFO) is the executive lead for all financial strategy, stewardship, and performance within the Trust. As a key member of the Trust Board, the CFO ensures the organisation remains financially sustainable while delivering safe, high-quality patient care. The role provides strategic leadership across finance, procurement, contracting, and financial governance, ensuring compliance with NHS regulatory frameworks and supporting the Trust’s long-term clinical and operational objectives.
The CFO leads the development of the Trust’s financial strategy, annual financial plan, and medium-term financial forecasts, ensuring resources are allocated effectively to meet activity demands, transformation priorities, and statutory duties. They oversee robust financial controls, risk management, and reporting processes, enabling transparent decision-making and maintaining public accountability.
Main duties of the job
The CFO is responsible for leading and developing a high-performing finance function, fostering a culture of integrity, innovation, and continuous improvement. They act as a trusted advisor to the Chief Executive and Board, providing expert insight on financial risks, opportunities, and strategic investment decisions that enable the hospital to meet current and future healthcare needs.
Please refer to the JD/PS for our Chief Finance Officer (CFO) to understand the key responsibilities of the role. You can also visit our dedicated online portal, where we’ve brought together helpful resources, background materials, and further insight into UHNM.
Working for our organisation
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.
All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.
UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.
At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Fully qualified Accountant with ongoing membership of their professional body (CCAB or other equivalent)
- Postgraduate level management qualification
- Evidence of continuing professional and personal development
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Senior board level experience in a large, complex and dynamic organisation
- Extensive experience of strategic development and delivery at senior level
- Achieved results in difficult financial climate in an organisation with limited opportunities to increase profit/income
- A demonstrable commitment to partnership working and organisational development
- Experience of leading the implementation of service improvement including complex change management programmes at a management level
Desirable criteria
- Experience of managing risk associated with service change
Personal Circumstances
Essential criteria
- Be able to participate in the ‘Strategic on Call Rota’
- Able to secure and retain the trust and confidence of colleagues by behaving in an open, ethical and professional manner
- Has the ability both to focus on priority issues and strategic goals by balancing short term needs within a long-term strategic framework
- A high level of personal resilience and be able to work with considerable pressures
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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
- Simon Constable
- Job title
- Chief Executive
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01782 676631
- Additional information
Please contact Simon Constable Executive Assistant, Suzanne Bailey on 01782 676631 or [email protected] or send you CV and covering Letter to Emily Hilton, Head of Recruitment, [email protected]
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