Job overview
This is a rare chance to join Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as Deputy Chief Finance Officer, supporting transformation and strategic reset.
The role, reporting to Craig Carter, Chief Finance Officer, involves leading financial management, strategic planning, governance, and risk. You’ll develop medium-term financial plans focused on sustainability, engagement, and robust stewardship, not just short-term control. The position requires translating financial risk into organisational priorities, aligning operational decisions with strategy, and providing constructive leadership across clinical and corporate teams.
You’ll play a key role in the Lancashire & South Cumbria system, driving collective sustainability and system-wide efficiencies, supporting partners through One LSC, and shifting the Trust towards planned, insight-driven transformation. This is ideal for someone motivated by impact, partnership, and modernising finance functions, offering the chance to make a significant, lasting contribution.
Main duties of the job
About You
You will be a CCAB-qualified finance professional with substantial experience in senior NHS finance or a similarly complex environment.
You will bring:
1. A strong grounding in operational finance, with the ability to oversee rigorous financial control, governance, reporting and assurance.
2. Strategic capability, using insight, data and foresight to inform medium-term planning, risk assessment and system collaboration.
3. The ability to build trust and confidence across executives, clinicians, operational colleagues and system partners.
4. Leadership that is values-driven, inclusive and focused on developing others, creating clarity and momentum across the finance function.
5. Resilience and adaptability, working effectively in a complex, fast-evolving context where financial grip must sit alongside innovation and transformation.
Above all, you will model the Trust’s values and behaviours — promoting openness, collaboration, accountability and a ‘one team’ approach to decision-making.
Working for our organisation
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a major provider of acute, specialist, and tertiary services across the region. We are proud of our people, our teaching hospital status, and our role within the Lancashire & South Cumbria Integrated Care System.
The Trust is ambitious — clinically, operationally and financially. We are committed to delivering high-quality, safe and sustainable services; investing in our workforce; and supporting transformation that is aligned with our long-term strategy. As an anchor institution for the region, we play a central role in improving outcomes, reducing inequalities and developing a financially resilient future for the population we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
What We Offer
Joining LTH means becoming part of a forward-thinking and supportive leadership community with a real commitment to improvement and financial sustainability.
You will have the opportunity to:
6. Shape the modernisation and future direction of the finance function
7. Influence trust-wide transformation, recovery and performance
8. Lead on significant organisational and system financial priorities
9. Work in a culture that values development, flexibility and partnership
10. Make a meaningful, long-term contribution to patients, staff and the regional health system
This is a role for an ambitious senior finance leader ready to step into a broad, stretching and rewarding deputy CFO position.
Person specification
Qualifications - Academic / Professional
Essential criteria
11. General education to degree level or equivalent work experience operating at Master level or equivalent experience.
12. Qualified Accountant with a recognised CCAB accountancy body.
Skills, Knowledge Requirements & Experience
Essential criteria
13. Experience as very senior Finance Officer within a large complex NHS organisation or specifically within an Acute Hospital / NHS Community Trust
14. Relevant experience of working in complex NHS organisations or systems.
15. A proven ability to deliver consistently to NHS standards of operational performance.
16. A track record of leading programmes of change including outcome improvement and cost reduction.
17. Experience of leading contractual and procurement processes
18. Knowledge of current national and Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS / Care systems
19. A solid and evident understanding of NHS dynamics and the values of the UK public sector.
20. Experience of working within a national or regional context in the NHS or other relevant areas.