Are you an experienced finance leader, who is vibrant, visible, inclusive, and collaborative? Would you be willing to push the boundaries on traditional thinking? If the answer is 'yes' then this could be the executive leadership role for you…
We are a University teaching hospital Trust providing community and hospital services across the Morecambe Bay area – covering one thousand square miles in South Cumbria and North Lancashire. We are seeking an Executive Chief Finance Officer to play a lead role in ensuring the delivery of the Trust's strategic priorities and that we achieve our goals - to provide the highest possible standards of compassionate care, whilst ensuring the very best patient and colleague experience.
Your experience and innovative thinking combined with experience of working successfully across an integrated care system and with delivery partners, will be essential as we work across the Bay and Lancashire and South Cumbria to improve health equity, services and outcomes for our communities in line with the Governments 10 year health plan.
We believe that the NHS workforce is a rich and diverse mix of talented people, and we welcome applications for this position from all nursing specialties and all sections of our community, particularly from under-represented groups, including disabled people and Nurse leaders of BAME backgrounds and those with lived experience that will help us to better understand and deliver.
The Chief Finance Officer will be a visible, inclusive and collaborative executive leader, ensuring delivery of the Trust's vision to provide the highest possible standards of compassionate care; the very best patient and colleague experience; and to listen to and involve patients, colleagues and carers.
This role is a member of our Unitary Board and as such is an executive director first and a portfolio holder second, working with the team to deliver the Trust strategy and having Board level responsibility for the overall delivery of financial management, financial planning / financial strategy and procurement support to the Trust. This specifically includes the design and stewardship of credible financial policies, procedures, practices and reporting regime through to the Board of Directors.
We operate from three main hospitals-Furness General Hospital (FGH) in Barrow, the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI), and Westmorland General Hospital (WGH) in Kendal, as well as a number of community healthcare premises including Millom Hospital and GP Practice, Queen Victoria Hospital in Morecambe, and Ulverston Community Health Centre.
FGH and the RLI have a range of General Hospital services, with full Emergency Departments, Critical/Coronary Care units and various Consultant-led services.
WGH provides a range of General Hospital services, together with an Urgent Treatment Centre, that can help with a range of non-life threatening conditions such as broken bones and minor illnesses.
All three main hospitals provide a range of planned care including outpatients, diagnostics, therapies, day case and inpatient surgery. In addition, a range of local outreach services and diagnostics are provided from community facilities across Morecambe Bay.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Will Griffiths Job title: Director - Seymour John Email address: Telephone number:
We are delighted to be joined by Steve Williamson, Chief Executive in late April 2026. For a discussion about the role, please contact Scott McLean, Interim Chief Executive at
For further information about the process, making your application please contact Will Griffiths at Seymour John who we have partnered with for this recruitment and selection process.