Job summary
- Main area
- Finance
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-2847656JN
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Northumbria House, Cobalt
- Town
- North Tyneside
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Principal Finance Manager
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced finance professional to join our busy and dynamic financial management team. The post will support the chief finance manager in providing a professional high quality financial management accounting service to several specialties. This involves coordinating the operational financial management section providing financial and business planning advice as well as investigating and advising on highly complex and sensitive financial issues.
Candidates must be CCAB qualified accountants and have substantial relevant experience working in a financial management environment.
You will have excellent interpersonal, communication, presentations, analytical and people management skills and have experience of dealing with difficult situations and the ability to handle conflicting interests in a positive and professional manner.
Main duties of the job
- Responsible for the management of a Financial Management section in providing a professional, high quality financial management accounting service.
- Plays a leading role in both Business Unit and Trustwide teams in determining and monitoring strategic direction and operational processes.
- Responsible for investigating and advising on highly complex and sensitive financial issues.
- Provides financial and business planning advice and corporate reports to ensure financial controls are maintained in line with Corporate Governance requirements.
- Ensures statutory accounts & returns are accurate and meet agreed timescales and legal requirements, interpreting these where necessary.
- Contributes to the medium term financial strategy of the Trust and to the objectives of the Business Units.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see job description and person specification.
Responsible for the management of a complex financial management section within the acute sector of the NHS.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional Accountancy qualification
- Participation in Continuing Professional Development Programme
Experience
Essential criteria
- Highly developed specialist knowledge and experience of Financial Management regimes and legislation, acquired over a substantial period of time post-qualification, working alongside other experienced professional accountants, attending appropriate courses and undertaking extended self-study.
Desirable criteria
- Working knowledge of Oracle Financials computer system
- Specialist knowledge and experience of NHS financial regimes and legislation
Other
Essential criteria
- It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Johanna Wolfe
- Job title
- Chief Finance Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07824838459
List jobs with Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Administrative Services or all sectors