Deputy Chief Finance Officer (Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM) - Camden and Islington NHS Fo[...]

North London Mental Health Partnership includes Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I).

Together, our two trusts employ around 6,000 staff and support almost a quarter of a million adults and children with mental health conditions. We are a forward-thinking, innovative organisation, committed to delivering the very best care possible.

We provide a wide range of mental health specialist services, including children and young people’s mental health services, prison services, forensic services, eating disorders and drug and alcohol recovery. We also support the UK Armed forces community, including members of the Reserve Forces, providing specialist veteran services across London.

Both our trusts are rated ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission, with many areas judged to be Outstanding.

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide Apprenticeship opportunities as well as employment opportunities for care-leavers.

Why choose to join the Partnership?

• We are a great place to work for our staff with occupational health services, wellbeing initiatives and staff incentives.
• We offer flexible working,
• Our staff are eligible for the NHS Pension Scheme and receive a generous annual leave allowance.
• Discounts are offered to NHS staff in a wide range of stores and services
• We have excellent internal staff network support groups
• We support learning and personal development opportunities.

We are looking to speak with compassionate, inclusive leaders who have an excellent track record of managing large and high performing finance teams. You will be partnership led and committed to equality for all. You will evidence your role in leading the delivery of successful annual accounts, development of business planning and bring proven experience of making improvements across financial performance for both operational and strategic purposes.

In return, you can be part of the exciting journey towards creating one new North London NHS Foundation Trust and you would be part of an upward journey in which there will be full support to help you reach your full potential.

Main duties of the job

We have an excellent opportunity to join our organisation as part of the Senior Leadership team, as Deputy Chief Finance Officer. As Deputy Chief Finance Officer (Deputy CFO), the postholder will be accountable for the day to day running of the Chief Finance & Investment Officer portfolio, including financial performance and financial sustainability at our Trusts, as well as Procurement, Contracts, Counter fraud, strategic transformation programmes and, Estates and Facilities, ensuring a high-quality provision of service to the Trust whilst they strive to deliver long term financial sustainability and improve health inequalities while providing high quality patient care. The post holder will deputise for the Chief Finance and Investment Officer, dealing with the Trust Board and Committee matters, as well as both internal and external stakeholders.

Working for our organisation

The North London Mental Health Partnership (NLMHP) – a partnership of Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) and Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH)– was established in 2021 to better support our service users, carers, staff and partners to improve the mental health of everyone in North London. Since 2022 we have had a single Executive Team, and we launched our North London Mental Health Partnership Strategy in May 2023. In July 2023, the Partnership Board agreed that coming together to create one new Trust is best for our staff, our communities and our service users.

We are proud to provide services from over 50 locations across five boroughs. Our locations range from major mental health and community hospital facilities through to clinics, care homes, people's own homes and prisons. As an anchor institution across our five Boroughs, we need to lead by example in creating a culture of belonging where all our colleagues feel safe, ensuring that our systems and processes are just and fair and making sure that our diverse communities are well-represented in our leadership. We know that by addressing inequality we will be best placed to recruit and retain a diverse and talented workforce, and as a result deliver the very best care to the population we serve.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and welcome applications from underrepresented groups. In recruiting to our Trusts, we are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We especially welcome applications from candidates from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic heritage, LGBTQ+ communities, and from people with lived experience of disability.

Person specification

Qualifications

Experience

• Experience as Deputy or Associate/ Assistant Director of Finance
• Expert Knowledge of the NHS financial framework
• Experience of the financial planning process
• Ability to establish rapport with colleagues
• Significant staff and teams managment experience

In line with NHS protocols, only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview. We regret that it is not possible to contact all applicants for every vacancy. If you have not been contacted within 4-6 weeks of the closing date please assume you have not been shortlisted for the next stage
We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further submissions, when we have received sufficient applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role. We are an employer committed to Equal Opportunities and Diversity, with a range of family friendly policies.
For more information please go to Camden & Islington NHS FT website.

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