Executive Director of Finance

Due to our current Director of Finance leaving to take up a Chief Executive role, we have an exciting opportunity for someone who wants to make their mark in the world of NHS finance. We are looking for someone who puts the people and the communities that we serve first. Someone who is a team player, who will work tirelessly with colleagues within the executive team and others across the Trust to provide expert support, advice and guidance as we move into the next phase of delivering our strategy With You in Mind. We are looking for someone who deeply understands the benefits that financial and business knowledge can bring, but has an enabling, innovative approach. The right candidate needs to understand and believe that real and sustainable financial delivery can only be achieved by engaging our people. Giving them the tools, the information and the clarity that they need and working with and through them to ensure long term sustainability. Our focus is delivering our strategy, and our financial and business approach needs to underpin, and be fundamentally aligned to that. We have a robust but challenging plan for the year ahead and will plan for a small surplus. That will involve the delivery of a significant programme of change across the organisation at pace. At the same time, we are now fleshing out our 5-year plan, so this represents a perfect time to step into the role and influence and shape our approach to delivering our strategic ambitions. Main duties of the job The right candidate will fit into a strong, coherent executive team, which welcomes mutual challenge but is also deeply supportive of each other and our common goals and corporate responsibility. They will look to build strong relationships across the organisation to influence coach and develop our people. This is not a desk job. As one of the biggest organisations of our type we cover a large geography and a wide range of communities and the post holder would be expected to spend a lot of time out across the organisation, understanding what we do and the impact of our actions. We are a leading organisation providing mental health and disability services, we strive to be an excellent partner, and we are confident in our ability to deliver. We are ambitious and have a radical agenda for change and improvement. The right candidate will buy into and be inspired by the opportunities that this gives both to develop themselves, and to radically shift and improve our offer to the people and communities that we serve

To make the best possible decisions, CNTW require diverse, inclusive, and compassionate leadership. To have a Board made up of people with a mix of experience and skills gained from a range of backgrounds and lived experience brings fresh ideas, greater challenge and more robust decision making, helping us make a positive difference to the lives of people in our communities. and will have a commitment to tackling health inequalities in disadvantaged groups. In doing so, we try to be reflective of our local communities to help the Board be in a better position to understand the communities and patients we serve and have a genuine commitment to service users and carers and the promotion of excellent mental health care services., Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest healthcare Trusts in the country. Serving a population of 1.7 million, with a budget of circa £500 million and 8,000 staff, we work from over 70 sites across Northumberland, Newcastle, North Tyneside, Gateshead, South Tyneside, Sunderland and north Cumbria. We have been rated outstanding by the CQC and in November 2017 won the prestigious HSJ Award for Provider of the Year. We provide a diverse range of specialist and generic health care services to both children and adults, their families and carers and we have a number of regional and national specialist services to England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work. We welcome applications irrespective of people's age, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief (With the exception of Chaplaincy Posts), sexual orientation, disability including mental health conditions or other personal circumstances, and are particularly keen to receive applications from:

• people from a Black, Asian or minority ethnic background.
• disabled people whether their impairments are physical, sensory, cognitive or hidden.
• those who have lost their employment during this pandemic or who have been out of work for a period.
We are committed to the health and wellbeing of our staff and we have a number of initiatives including a dedicated website, Thrive - which promotes our supportive and inclusive approach to staff health and wellbeing, career development and benefits. Find out more www.thriveatcntw.co.uk We have achieved the Better Health at Work award and Investors in People accreditation and we are proud to be recognised as a mindful employer. The Trust is committed to achieving high standards of health for its service users, staff and visitors providing a safe environment for staff, we operate a smoke free policy on all sites.