Deputy Chief Finance Officer | Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	Executives / VSM
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Cambridge, CB2 0QQ
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	27 Jul 2026
Closing date:	26 Aug 2026

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Summary

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an exceptional Deputy Chief Finance Officer to help lead one of the largest, most complex and most ambitious acute teaching hospital trusts in the country. This is a significant senior leadership role, offering the opportunity to shape financial strategy, operational finance performance, productivity, procurement and commercial development across a nationally important organisation with a budget of circa £1.6bn at the heart of the Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Working directly to the Chief Finance Officer, you will provide visible, credible and influential leadership across the Trust’s finance function and wider senior leadership community. You will deputise for the CFO, advise executive and Board-level colleagues, and work closely with clinical, operational and corporate leaders to ensure finance is at the heart of decisions that support excellent patient care, long-term sustainability and best use of NHS resources.

This is a role for an outstanding finance leader who combines technical expertise with strategic judgement, commercial acumen and the ability to lead through influence in a complex, high-profile NHS environment.

As Deputy Chief Finance Officer, you will lead key components of the Trust’s finance portfolio, including financial performance, reporting, forecasting, governance, productivity, procurement and commercial development. You will support the development and delivery of the Trust’s short, medium and long-term financial strategy and provide senior financial leadership across operational, strategic and transformation priorities.

You will provide senior financial oversight of the newly formed Accountable Care Groups (ACG), with professional responsibility (alongside the Chief Finance Officer), for the ACG finance leads. You will also play a central role in strengthening financial control, supporting productivity and efficiency programmes, and ensuring that financial stewardship is embedded in operational decision-making.

You will work collaboratively with executive colleagues, clinical leaders, operational teams, NHS England, Integrated Care Boards, universities, research organisations and commercial partners. You will represent the CFO portfolio internally and externally, and will help build a high-performing, inclusive and influential finance leadership community.

Our Trust

Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people – patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH’s values – Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.

CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have:

- applied for a Graduate visa

- or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment

This vacancy will close at midnight on 10th August 2026.

Interview dates will be communicated to successful applicants.

Benefits to you

At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.

CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.

Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.

This advert closes on Monday 10 Aug 2026

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