Head of Finance: Sponsorship Available

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Join our dynamic Finance Department making a real impact in specialist healthcare services. We are excited to announce an exceptional leadership opportunity for experienced finance professionals to help shape and support our Care Groups.

As a Head of Finance, you will play a pivotal role in delivering strategic financial support to services that touch lives daily. This is a key leadership position where you’ll work closely with operational leaders supporting secure and complex care pathways to ensure financial sustainability, drive service innovation, and promote best value for service users and the wider community.

You will be forward thinking and looking to add value to the clinical services you will support. You will oversee key areas across the Care Group including financial management, financial performance, planning, and monthly reporting. You’ll lead and inspire a management accounts team in a fast-paced, ambitious environment that fosters excellence and continuous improvement. You will bring strong analytical skills and a collaborative approach. As a senior leader across the wider department, you will also play an important role in driving forward the Trust’s strategic and operational financial goals.

Main duties of the job

  • Support clinical and operational leaders in decision-making.
  • Oversight of budgeting, forecasting, and Care Group cost improvement programmes.
  • Business partner with Care Group Directors or Executive Directors on the financial direction of Care Group services.
  • Provide financial input and support to contract negotiations and their performance.
  • Ensure comprehensive business advice and information is provided to budget holders and managers within the Care Group.
  • Advise and inform the Head of Financial Management of the current and prospective financial position of the Care Group.
  • Ensure Care Group compliance, governance, and value for money.
  • Lead a team of finance professionals with a focus on continuous improvement.

Ready to make a difference? Apply today to become a key leader at Nottinghamshire Healthcare in a forward-thinking Finance Department dedicated to improving lives across the Community, Mental Health and Forensic services.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Possess a Professional accounting qualification (CCAB or equivalent)

Desirable

  • Educated to degree level or equivalent

Further Training

Essential

  • Demonstrate evidence of continuing professional development

Work Experience

Essential

  • A minimum of 2 years post CCAB or equivalent experience.
  • Knowledge of NHS finance and business planning regimes.
  • Appointing and Managing staff.

Aptitudes / Skills

Essential

  • Ability to problem solve and find solutions.
  • Ability to communicate at a high level internally & externally.
  • Possess numerical and analytical skills and have the ability to assimilate and interpret data to make resultant judgements.
  • Able to lead and motivate a team.
  • Ability to work under pressure and meet changing deadlines.
  • Excellent written & report writing skills & have the ability to convey complex financial issues to non Finance Managers.
  • Possess excellent negotiating & influencing skills.
  • Ability to work on own initiative, integrate within the team.

Values and Behaviours

Essential

  • Demonstrate the application of professional ethics, values and judgement in support of the core values underpinning the Finance Department, professionalism, empathy and respect.
  • Values diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness.
  • Self-awareness in terms of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity and awareness.
  • Self-awareness in terms of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity and awareness.

Values and Behaviours

Essential

  • All colleagues are expected to demonstrate at interview that they act in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Values: Trust Honesty Respect Compassion Teamwork
  • All colleagues are expected to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and how it applies to their role. The Trust’s expectations are highlighted within our EDI Policy, and associated EDI and Human Rights legislation

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).

Closing Date: 18 September 2026

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