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

Join Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust as our new Associate Director of Finance – Financial Control. We’re looking for an accomplished finance professional and inspiring leader to oversee all aspects of financial control and accounting across our Trusts. In this pivotal role, you’ll lead a high-performing finance team, drive continuous improvement in systems and processes, and provide expert strategic and technical financial advice to the Executive Team. You’ll play a key part in shaping our financial sustainability and ensuring robust governance, working collaboratively across the organisation and with external partners. If you’re a qualified accountant with senior NHS finance experience, exceptional leadership skills, and a passion for excellence, we’d love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be a senior member of the Finance Team, providing effective and professional leadership on the finance operational aspects for Kingston and Richmond Foundation Trust (KRFT), supporting the Deputy Chief Finance Officer and providing cover as required for the Deputy CFO.

To ensure the development of efficient and robust procedures throughout the department and promote good financial control within the Trusts. To manage the Senior Finance Team, ensuring an effective finance team is in place at all times. To provide strategic and technical finance support to the Deputy CFO.

To act as the lead for both Trust’s financial control and accounting 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

Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust cares for more than half a million patients a year, from across Kingston, Richmond, Elmbridge (Surrey), Merton, Wandsworth and Sutton. In 2018, we became the first acute hospital trust in London to be rated “Outstanding” for overall quality and leadership by the national Care Quality Commission regulator.

We have approximately 350 beds and directly employ around 2,900 staff. Our trust provides a full range of diagnostic services and treatment services. Our main site is the Kingston Hospital site but we also run a number of outpatient clinics in the community, including in Raynes Park, Surbiton, Queen Mary's Roehampton and Teddington.