Head of Finance (Sponsorship Available) at Whittington Hospital NHS Trust

Job Summary

The post holder will act as a Trust wide expert leading on the development and implementation of organisation wide financial improvements and efficiencies.

The role requires both clinical and non clinical finance experience, working with senior Trust key stakeholders, persuading and influencing the financial direction of the Trust.

Responsible as a leading expert on the strategic financial planning agenda and programme for the nominated Integrated Clinical Service Units (ICSUs), including the financial lead on developing financial strategies and business plans.

To provide professional guidance in support to Senior Trust managers, including the presentation of business cases and financial plans to Trust Executive Directors.

Identifying opportunities for financial efficiencies and high-lighting areas of risk and reporting on progress of these whilst indicating other opportunities in year.

The Head of Finance will be responsible for the development, implementation and delivery of the procedures, policies of the department.

To ensure that all Trust wide financial policies are adhered across the Trust.

Job Details

• Employer: Whittington Hospital NHS Trust

• Job Title: Head of Finance

• Location: London, United Kingdom

• Salary: £88,250 to £100,355 a year

• Job Type: Full-time

• Closing Date: 02 November 2026

Main Duties of the Job

Responsible as a Trust leading financial expert for the provision of financial services across the nominated ICSUs.

Responsible for leading a financial management team, delivering professional financial support that meets the needs of the Trust.

To ensure that the team delivers a full financial service to include:

• Financial leadership

• Analytical support

• Financial commercial acumen

• Full business suite financial reporting

• Clear presentation of financial and business intelligence to ICSUs to support the delivery of an approved financial plan

• Ensuring proper financial control is maintained and value for money achieved

Responsible for ensuring that the ICSUs financial direction is robust and fit for purpose.

To ensure that as a financial expert, you manage and constructively and positively challenge all aspects of the ICSUs financial and business performance.

The post will attend the ICSU Boards and Performance Review meetings and will make a positive contribution to debates on service provision and ICSUs priorities.

Responsible for the provision of financial leadership and guidance in delivering Trust wide programmes concerned with improved productivity, quality and efficiency programmes.

About Whittington Hospital NHS Trust

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all its services are fair and equally accessible to everyone.

Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way Whittington Health looks after its staff.

The Trust aims to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so it is open to the value of differences in:

• Age

• Disability

• Gender

• Marital status

• Pregnancy and maternity

• Race

• Sexual orientation

• Religion or belief

The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation it has an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences.

Whittington Health believes that by doing so, it is better able to treat its patients as well as being a better place to work.

Job Description

Job Responsibilities

Please see attached job description for further information about the responsibilities of this role.

If you want to know more about the role, please contact:

Nirupa Narine – Assistant Director of Financial Management

Email: nirupa.narine@nhs.net

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

• CCAB, CIMA qualified Accountant

• Evidence of recent and ongoing professional development

• Educated to Masters level or equivalent

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

• Substantial experience of delivering financial advice and guidance to senior managers and directors.

• Operational and strategic financial planning, budgeting and service costing

• Experience in producing a wide range of financial information, reports and analyses

Desirable

– Experience of leading a NHS finance team

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders

• Good presentational skills for conveying complex concepts

• Ability to use informed persuasion to influence others

• Ability to work within and lead cross functional working and project group

• Excellent listening, communication and presentation skills

• Excellent writing skills, including the ability to summarise information and key issues

• Advanced Microsoft Office/computer skills

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Excellent leadership skills

• Strong communication and engagement skills

• Positive attitude and highly self-motivated and can motivate others

• Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales

• Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

How to Apply

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