Home, community, hospital

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.

Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.

We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.

Our Trust values

These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity for an Associate Director of Finance – Financial Management (8D) has come up. This role is a key member of the senior finance team, directly supporting the Deputy CFO and providing effective and professional leadership on the financial operations.

This role is pivotal in ensuring efficient and robust procedures are followed and that good financial controls are in place whilst also providing strategic financial management support to the Deputy CFO. The role requires someone who is technically competent but also able to provide leadership to a team, encouraging a collaborative and learning environment where they can influence positive change in a professional and forward-thinking finance team.

The successful applicant will be a fully qualified member of a CCAB body with up-to-date knowledge of the NHS Finance regime with a track record of managing and leading teams to deliver excellence with an approach of continuous improvement.

Main duties of the job

This role is to provide expert financial support and advice in all aspects of Financial Management to the Trusts senior management team, providing high quality financial information to the Trust.

Your role will involve developing the finance function to create a culture of initiative and innovation in how to do things well whilst ensuring a good grip and control on the finances of the Trust.

With a proactive and solutions focused outlook, you will be required to analyse highly complex problems and present high-level solutions, being able to articulate financial implications and risks in line with the broader finance team and Trusts deliverables. 

To act as the lead for both Trust’s financial management function providing effective and professional leadership of the team and supporting the senior finance team in the formulation of Trust and departmental strategies

Working for our organisation

The post holder will be expected to commit to our core values as Kingston and Richmond NHS Trust aims to employ and work with people who share these values.  Our values are:-

• Compassionate: We provide care with kindness, understanding, and empathy for all.
• Inclusive: We embrace diversity and respect the unique contributions of every individual.
• Collaborative: We foster teamwork across all levels, working together and with our partners to deliver the best outcomes.
• Inspiring: We are committed to continuous improvement and excellence in patient care, staff development, and innovation.

By having a clear set of values, patients, carers, visitors and colleagues can expect Kingston and Richmond NHS staff to behave in certain ways.