Job summary
This is an exciting time to join the Executive Team at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as we continue our improvement journey.We are proud of our recent improvements, however, we recognise the opportunities and ongoing challenges facing our Trust and wider health and care partners.
The Chief Finance Officer (CFO) will lead an ambitious programme to deliver significant financial savings in 25/26 and 26/27 with a view to achieving financial balance in 26/27. This will involve working closely with colleagues across the organisation on waste reduction plans, grip and control and improving run rates, as well as working with the wider system.
In taking on this important role, you will bring energy, talent and innovation to support the further development and implementation of the Trust's financial sustainability plan.
Main duties of the job
The Chief Finance Officer is responsible for the leadership, management, and development of the following functions: financial management, digital transformation and information technology, ensuring that the relevant objectives within the overall Trust Strategy are achieved.
As an Executive Director of the Trust Board and a member of the Executive Team, the Chief Finance Officer will contribute to the corporate management and strategic direction of the Trust.
About us
We are an organisation of scale and complexity with a workforce in excess of 8500 employees. As a large, integrated provider of acute and community services to a 445,000-strong population of the Fylde Coast and an estimated 11 million visitors to the seaside town of Blackpool, your leadership as Chief Financial Officer will impact the health outcomes of a complex and diverse population.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals is a challenged provider on a defined improvement journey and the expectations on this Executive Director will be significant, however regulators have consistently recognised colleagues in both hospital and community services for demonstrating our Trusts Values of Caring, Safe and Respectful. As CFO you will inherit a great team of people who will help every step of the way.
You'll have the support of the Chief Executive and a Trust Board of talented and experienced Executive and Non-Executive Directors who will encourage and champion your ideas and successes.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We recognise that if our Chief Finance Officer is going to achieve genuine and lasting change, they will need outstanding communication, networking, and engagement skills, with a dynamic, patient centric approach that promotes a culture placing safety, quality, and outcomes at the heart of everything we do.
For further information, please review the attached Job Description and Person specification for more detailed duties and responsibilities for the role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We recognise that if our Chief Finance Officer is going to achieve genuine and lasting change, they will need outstanding communication, networking, and engagement skills, with a dynamic, patient centric approach that promotes a culture placing safety, quality, and outcomes at the heart of everything we do.
For further information, please review the attached Job Description and Person specification for more detailed duties and responsibilities for the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Personal Development
Essential
- Possession of CCAB Accountancy qualification
- Evidence of continuous personal and professional development
- Educated to Masters Level or equivalent analytical and critical thinking skills
- Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of a range of improvement procedures and practices
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience as a Board level Finance Director in the NHS, preferably within the provider sector
- Able to demonstrate a proven track record of achievement in the role of Finance Director
- Experience of all aspects of financial management in the NHS
- Ability to identify, analyse, design and implement process improvement activities in highly complex settings
- A proven track record of strategic, operational, or corporate service management and delivery at a senior level in a large, complex environment, including staff management, change management and quality improvement.
- Proven ability to build relationships including key relationships with Executive and senior leaders where there may be significant resistance to change
- Ability to influence people for change and develop the right relations using a collaborative approach
- Must be able to settle differences, be diplomatic, gain trust and negotiate skilfully with both internal and external groups
Desirable
- Demonstrates understanding knowledge of FT/public sector governance
- Demonstrates a good understanding of NHS changes and future organisational changes. Good understanding of public accountability
- Experience of delivering large scale efficiency programmes
- Proven track record and relentless drive for continuous improvement and overcoming barriers and resistance to change
- Proven ability to transform an organisation to deliver long term operational and/or clinical performance
- Experience in methods of improvement and theories of change. Clear evidence of formal training and successful application of lean and six sigma techniques including Lean problem solving, process mapping and basic analytical tools
- Proven expert knowledge of 5S, Rapid Improvement Events, Value Stream Mapping, Visual Management, Root Cause Analysis, Error-proofing and other proven improvement approaches
- Successful track record of managing complex work/change management programmes
Leadership and Management Style
Essential
- Dynamic, open, participative and supportive leadership and management style
- Ability to inspire
- Team builder
- Ability to delegate
- Able to make decisions and take charge of events through a performance management approach
- Strong facilitation skills with proven ability in leading projects to deliver positive outcomes Advanced interpersonal skills to deliver highly complex, sensitive and contentious corporate messages
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Highly developed leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams across professional boundaries, and have the and your performance expectations
- Demonstrable political judgement and astuteness in understanding and working with complex policy, and diverse interest groups, and good judgment in knowing when to escalate and take immediate action
- Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovative service delivery
- Ability to communicate and present highly complex information at Board level
- Well-developed intellectual and analytical skills
- Excellent organisational and time management skills
- Ability to use initiative appropriately
- Strategic ability linked to financial and staff management
Special Aptitudes and Competencies
Essential
- Outstanding personal impact, drive, enthusiasm, commitment and presence
- Excellent communication, analytical and presentation skills
- Ability to manage multiple complex agendas and meet deadlines
- Ability to recognise and value cultural and other differences, using them positively
- Drive to succeed against exacting standards of excellence
- Vision and forward planning ability
- Flexible to meet the needs of the service
- Ability to undertake cross site working
Desirable
- Strategic vision and planning
Person Specification
Qualifications and Personal Development
Essential
- Possession of CCAB Accountancy qualification
- Evidence of continuous personal and professional development
- Educated to Masters Level or equivalent analytical and critical thinking skills
- Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of a range of improvement procedures and practices
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience as a Board level Finance Director in the NHS, preferably within the provider sector
- Able to demonstrate a proven track record of achievement in the role of Finance Director
- Experience of all aspects of financial management in the NHS
- Ability to identify, analyse, design and implement process improvement activities in highly complex settings
- A proven track record of strategic, operational, or corporate service management and delivery at a senior level in a large, complex environment, including staff management, change management and quality improvement.
- Proven ability to build relationships including key relationships with Executive and senior leaders where there may be significant resistance to change
- Ability to influence people for change and develop the right relations using a collaborative approach
- Must be able to settle differences, be diplomatic, gain trust and negotiate skilfully with both internal and external groups
Desirable
- Demonstrates understanding knowledge of FT/public sector governance
- Demonstrates a good understanding of NHS changes and future organisational changes. Good understanding of public accountability
- Experience of delivering large scale efficiency programmes
- Proven track record and relentless drive for continuous improvement and overcoming barriers and resistance to change
- Proven ability to transform an organisation to deliver long term operational and/or clinical performance
- Experience in methods of improvement and theories of change. Clear evidence of formal training and successful application of lean and six sigma techniques including Lean problem solving, process mapping and basic analytical tools
- Proven expert knowledge of 5S, Rapid Improvement Events, Value Stream Mapping, Visual Management, Root Cause Analysis, Error-proofing and other proven improvement approaches
- Successful track record of managing complex work/change management programmes
Leadership and Management Style
Essential
- Dynamic, open, participative and supportive leadership and management style
- Ability to inspire
- Team builder
- Ability to delegate
- Able to make decisions and take charge of events through a performance management approach
- Strong facilitation skills with proven ability in leading projects to deliver positive outcomes Advanced interpersonal skills to deliver highly complex, sensitive and contentious corporate messages
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Highly developed leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams across professional boundaries, and have the and your performance expectations
- Demonstrable political judgement and astuteness in understanding and working with complex policy, and diverse interest groups, and good judgment in knowing when to escalate and take immediate action
- Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovative service delivery
- Ability to communicate and present highly complex information at Board level
- Well-developed intellectual and analytical skills
- Excellent organisational and time management skills
- Ability to use initiative appropriately
- Strategic ability linked to financial and staff management
Special Aptitudes and Competencies
Essential
- Outstanding personal impact, drive, enthusiasm, commitment and presence
- Excellent communication, analytical and presentation skills
- Ability to manage multiple complex agendas and meet deadlines
- Ability to recognise and value cultural and other differences, using them positively
- Drive to succeed against exacting standards of excellence
- Vision and forward planning ability
- Flexible to meet the needs of the service
- Ability to undertake cross site working
Desirable
- Strategic vision and planning
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Whinney Heys Road
Blackpool
FY3 8NR
Employer's website
https://www.bfwh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
