Chief Finance Officer
This is an exciting time to join our Executive Team at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, as we continue on our journey of improvement and innovation. Our recent progress fills us with pride, yet we remain fully aware of the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead for our Trust and our broader health and care partners. We’re looking for someone who can bring vigour, talent, and innovative ideas to help shape and implement our financial sustainability plan.
To drive genuine, lasting change, you will steer the journey we are on, able to demonstrate your dynamic, inclusive leadership style with outstanding communication, networking, and engagement skills. We are committed to fostering a patient-centric culture that prioritises safety, quality, and positive outcomes in all we do. You will lead your team with a focus on inclusivity and collaboration, playing a key role in representing the Trust within the Lancashire and South Cumbria ‘system’. Working alongside other Chief Finance Officers on both a national and regional level, you’ll help us achieve our shared goals. To take this critical executive portfolio forward, we need a talented leader with a track record of providing visible, credible and effective financial leadership which is outcome focused.
It goes without saying that you will be a leader with a proven track record of providing visible, credible, and effective financial leadership that is focused on outcomes. As a key member of our Trust Executive Team, you’ll share the collective responsibility of leading organisational and cultural change. You’ll guide us on our journey to becoming widely recognised as a ‘Great place to work’ while ensuring that we achieve better care together for the benefit of our population. Working closely with executives, clinicians, senior operational teams, and staff networks, you will ensure our values align with yours and that our culture supports our staff in being the best they can be.
Main duties
As Chief Financial Officer, you will provide strategic counsel to the Chief Executive and Board of Directors, while leading the Finance, Procurement, Informatics, Estates & Facilities teams and support One LSC in its formation. Your financial stewardship will be critical in delivering our three-year financial sustainability plan and ensuring we meet our budgetary goals. Collaboration with senior leaders across the Trust will be key to achieving cost improvements and advancing our ambitious capital plans.
In addition to your responsibilities within the Trust, you will play a crucial role in contributing to the financial sustainability of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS). Working closely with stakeholders across the region, you will help shape and implement strategies that prioritize patient-centric care, quality, and governance while driving growth in revenue and savings.
About us
We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. We help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria. Everything you need to know is here: A great place to work | Lancashire Teaching Hospitals (lancsteachinghospitals.nhs.uk)
We don’t expect you to stay in the same role forever, so we’ll develop and support you whatever your goals for the future are. You will have opportunities for professional development and supported exposure at place level for maximising your impact as part of the leadership team. We’ve moved to an agile working approach and work-life balance is important to us so please feel free to discuss with us.
We are not underestimating the challenges facing today’s health system but believe there are the foundations here in Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS FT to deliver truly excellent, integrated services that can majorly impact the lives of the people we serve. Please get in touch if you have the compassion, skills, and track record to succeed in this exciting and complex role and help us achieve this ambition.
Please contact Eric Tomlinson on 07887572970 or eric@seymourjohn.com for more information.