Job summary
- Main area
- 317 Financial Management DFM - Corporate
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 317-2025-44-44-DR-VA1
- Employer
- The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Regent Point
- Town
- 317 Regent Point
- Salary
- £64,455 - £74,896 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/11/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 27/11/2025
Employer heading
Clinical Board Finance Manager
Band 8b
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 15,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.6 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country, supporting people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts each day, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
Job overview
We are looking for finance professionals who can lead the way to support our Divisions / Clinical Boards to deliver their financial objectives including growing income and reducing expenditure, while continuing to deliver care for patients across the North East and Cumbria.
We're offering a Clinical Board Finance Manager role at Newcastle Hospitals which will play a key role in the delivery of the strategic aims of the new Clinical Board structure across the Trust. These are senior finance/business partner roles that will work closely with the Clinical Boards providing front-line support, ensuring robust processes and controls and specialist, in-depth financial advice. The role also links closely with Corporate Finance function to ensure the continued development of the Finance Department and its processes to support the Clinical Board structure.
We will consider full and part time applicants.
- Interview Date Thursday 27 November 2025
- 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week (Part Time Hours to be considered)
- You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy
NO AGENCIES PLEASE
Main duties of the job
This is a senior finance role within Newcastle Hospitals providing a key link between operational and corporate management functions. The applicants will be working alongside senior leaders across the organisation to facilitate success of the Clinical Boards restructure and support to the Corporate Finance Department.
- Provide expert finance support to the Clinical Boards including the identification and delivery of cost improvement targets, strategic planning, performance management and preparation of business cases.
- Analysis of complex financial information and the ability to communicate this effectively to non-financial stakeholders to enable effective decision making
- Providing timely and accurate information to the Corporate Management Team to enable management of the Trust’s financial position and to support the decision making process.
- Providing advice and guidance on all finance issues including appropriate challenge to inform decision making processes
- Support Clinical Boards in the analysis, understanding and use of Patient Level Costing and other benchmarking information to support development of their business plans
- Play a key leadership role in the annual business planning process providing high quality costing, budgetary and activity information
- To co-ordinate with other Clinical Board Finance Managers to ensure consistency of approach to common issues across the Finance Department
Working for our organisation
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
• Freeman Hospital
• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service
• Cramlington Manor Walks
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To provide professional finance support to Clinical Boards, with particular reference to the Trust’s Performance Management Framework.
- To engage with Clinical Board Director of Operations and Clinical Board Chair, to develop strategic plans and drive through Clinical Boards CIP efficiencies.
- To work closely with senior Trust Corporate and/or Directorate Management, providing timely and accurate information and advice to facilitate the effective monitoring and management of the Trust’s financial position and to support the decision-making process.
- To effectively interact with Corporate Finance function, providing information and detail to refine the process.
- To evaluate and monitor the financial consequence of developments and activity trends.
- To play a lead role in the development of financial awareness within the Trust.
- To ensure that financial controls are maintained within Corporate Governance guidelines.
Person specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential criteria
- Professional Accountancy (CCAB) qualification
- Evidence of participation in Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
Desirable criteria
- ECDL or equivalent experience
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post qualification experience in the finance department of a complex organisation
- In depth specialist and practical knowledge of the NHS Foundation Trust finance regime, including corporate governance
- A good working knowledge of financial computer systems
- Demonstrable experience in a financial management environment, including ability to provide detailed guidance and advice to finance and non-finance managers
- Computer literate, especially in the use of financial reporting tools and Microsoft office
- Knowledge of standard NHS financial management and performance management techniques
- Knowledge of PbR, contracting & income streams
- Knowledge of the standard organisation of clinical activities within an NHS Trust
Desirable criteria
- Previous NHS finance experience at a senior level
- Presentation skills/experience of public speaking
- Experience of report writing
- Use of Business Objects report writing software
- Knowledge of Cedar e-financials
- Leadership & mentoring of finance staff
- Experience in working with the outputs of Patient Level Costing & Service Line Reporting systems
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- The ability to work autonomously, interpreting national policy and regulations for the benefit of the Finance Directorate and the Trust.
- The ability to liaise effectively with Consultants, Senior Managers and other Health Service professionals to review problems and implement effective support packages.
- Ability to make judgements involving highly complex facts and situations
- The ability to plan and organise a range of complex activities and programmes, and to manage time to meet deadlines
- Ability to communicate highly complex, sensitive or contentious information to a range of audiences using a range of different communication methods
- Ability to communicate, advise and challenge with Clinical staff (of all grades) and Clinical Board Director of Operations.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Stephen Harrison
- Job title
- Assistant Director of Finance
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0191 2137949
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