East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Chief Finance & Strategy Officer
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We are seeking an exceptional Chief Finance and Strategy Officer to join our Board and Executive team.
Like many NHS organisations, we face a significant financial challenge alongside the need to improve performance, transform services and respond to the ambitions of the 10Year Plan. Achieving long term sustainability will require clear strategic choices, clinically led transformation, disciplined planning and effective collaboration across organisational boundaries. Against this backdrop, we have created this new, expanded executive portfolio.
Role Overview
Reporting to our new Chief Executive, you will provide outstanding leadership of the Trust’s finance function, with full executive accountability for financial strategy, management, control and reporting; financial governance and stewardship; capital and investment; productivity, value and long term financial sustainability. Alongside this, you will lead the development and coordination of our organisational strategy, strategic planning and development, ensuring a strong connection between our clinical ambitions, the resources available to us and the plans through which we deliver them.
Given the breadth of the role, this represents an outstanding opportunity for an established Chief Finance Officer seeking an increased scope. For outstanding candidates, we will also be open to designation as Deputy Chief Executive.
Key Responsibilities
- Working closely with colleagues, you will help translate clinical strategies into affordable, prioritised, deliverable plans & bring analytical rigour & clarity to our choices.
- Lead our planning framework, strategic analysis & investment prioritisation, play an important role in identifying & developing major strategic opportunities.
- Lead the development of key strategic partnerships ensuring that ESNEFT plays a purposeful role within the wider system.
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Profile of the Successful Candidate
- An established highly credible finance leader with an outstanding record of achievement in a large complex NHS organisation.
- Strong technical, professional expertise alongside the strategic breadth to operate as an influential corporate leader.
- Demonstrated ability to develop organisational strategy, lead transformation in a financially constrained environment & work effectively with clinical & operational leaders.
- Ability to build trusted relationships while providing constructive challenge & maintaining the highest standards of financial control, governance & stewardship.
- Sees finance as an enabler of better decisions & sustainable improvement.
- Move the conversation beyond financial constraint, helping colleagues consider outcomes, value, prioritisation & affordability together.
- Collaborative, inclusive & values led, comfortable operating across organisational & system boundaries & shares our ambition.
About Us
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
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- One of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
- We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
- Generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts.
- Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offering a variety of services.
- Philosophy: Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
- Investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
Why Join Us
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Thomas Patterson
- Job title: Managing Director
- Email address: thomas.patterson@alumniglobal.com
- Telephone number: 07970339151
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