Job summary
- Main area
- Administration
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 196-COF10794-S
- Employer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Beckett House
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £61,927 - £68,676 pa inc HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/07/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 14/07/2025
Employer heading

Finance Manager - Health Innovation Network
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
Are you passionate about improving healthcare, addressing inequalities, and using the Finance function to help drive improvements in health and care outcomes for our south London population?
We have an opportunity for a creative and passionate Finance Manager to join us at the award-winning Health Innovation Network (HIN). Hosted by Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, we enjoy the benefits of being NHS members of staff whilst focusing on innovation to improve the lives of patients and staff in the health and care sector.
The main purpose of this post is to support the programme teams at the HIN with the financial management of their projects, and ensuring senior managers, executive directors, the board, and our commissioners have a clear overview of the financial position of the organisation. Innovation is at the heart of everything we do, from delivering transformational programmes to improving patient pathways, or internally with our wide range of health and mental health wellbeing initiatives.
This is a role for someone who wants to move out of the normal finance role to work most closely with project teams and contribute to the strategic direction of an exciting and interesting organisation within the NHS. External secondments from other NHS Trusts will be considered.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will report to, and work closely with, the Head of Finance & Corporate Support.
They will be a qualified accountant with significant post qualification experience, able to use accounting principals to answer queries and solve problems. They will line manage the Finance Support Officer and will be responsible for the day to day financial management of the organisation, including driving change and improvements.
They will work closely with the programme leads to ensure that individual project plans are robust and accurate. They will work with the Head of Finance & Corporate Support to produce monthly management accounts, including identifying and delivering improvements in the reporting.They will work closely with the PMO manager to drive greater synergies between finance and project management.
They will be comfortable working with, and if necessary challenging, senior colleagues. They will have high level excel skills, able to use excel to understand and answer questions as well as to build robust tools for the organisation to use to plan and track financial information. They will also have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and be able to communicate complicated issues clearly and succinctly, both written and in person.
Working for our organisation
The Health Innovation Network works across a range of health and care services through each of our clinical and innovation themes to transform care in diabetes, patient safety, mental health, cardiovascular, and health ageing and to accelerate innovations into the NHS.
AHSNs help mobilise the value that the NHS can add as an economic asset to the UK economy. The HIN works with a range of expert support and services across the health and care sectors that support NHS innovators and companies to realise the commercial and economic potential of their innovations.
Our Values
Brave: we encourage our teams and others to be brave with their ideas and support them to try new things.
Kind: we care about each other, the people we work with, and about the health and wellbeing of south Londoners.
Open: we are open about what we do, and we share what we learn.
Different: we think differently, and we are strong because of our diverse background, talents, and experiences.
Together: we build communities and networks, we collaborate, and we connect.
We operate a hybrid working model with some remote work and some time on site. This post may be required to travel to any of our sites, though most on site time will be split between Evelina London's offices near Waterloo and Finance offices near London Bridge.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see Job Description and Person Specification for a full list of role requirements and main responsibilities.
Important:
For your personal statement you will be asked to answer the following points:
i. The reasons why you are applying for the post.
ii. Details of any relevant experience gained either in a paid or voluntary capacity.
iii. Details of any training, education or other interests relevant to the post.
iv. Details of Personal Attributes you have to support your application.
For the first 3 questions please answer in no more than two sentences each. For the fourth point please can you describe your three greatest strengths and the three things that you feel would be most important to deliver this role successfully. For this part of statement do not exceed 400 words.
Applications that do not follow these instructions will not be considered.
Person specification
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excel skills
- Technical accounting skills
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Qualified Accountant
- Post Qualification experience.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Understanding from experience of what the role involves
- Understanding of the importance of relationships
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dan Dartington
- Job title
- Head of Finance & Corporate Support.
- Email address
- [email protected]
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