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Chief Finance Officer

World class care requires world class leadership. 

We have an exciting opportunity to join Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) as Chief Finance Officer, joining an exceptional executive team to lead the development and delivery of our financial and commercial strategy during one of the most exciting, challenging, periods in our evolution. 

GOSH is a global centre of excellence in child healthcare. An acute specialist paediatric hospital with a mission to provide world-class care to children and young people with rare, complex and difficult-to-treat conditions, the hospital has, since its formation in 1852, been dedicated to children’s healthcare and to finding new and better ways to treat childhood illnesses. 

Our last five years have seen real progress towards important goals for children’s health, as well as a tremendous increase in patients seeking treatment with us, in London, nationally, and internationally. We have started work on the building of our new Cancer Centre, which will increase our capacity and enable us to deliver even more excellent patient care, and we have implemented the EPIC Electronic Patient Record, opening up opportunities for improvements in the ways we work and collaborate, and in clinical research, innovation and discovery.

Main duties of the job

Building on these strong foundations, we are now looking for an accomplished, rounded, financial leader to make a unique leadership contribution to children’s health and care across the UK, and internationally.

Reporting to our Chief Executive, Matthew Shaw, this CFO will lead an excellent finance team, ensuring that we plan and manage our financial resources well, balancing and maximising our multiple income streams to ensure sustainable delivery of high-quality services and investment in people, research and innovation and infrastructure. They will also take the lead on many of the Trust’s commercial and system partnerships and negotiations, around research and innovation as well as the further development of our important private care business. 

As our new CFO you will bring a track record of impactful financial leadership and management in complex environments of relevant scale, whether public or private sector, ideally operating within a regulated, service focused, environment. You will be committed to building inclusive, diverse teams, and have a track record building organisational cultures that promote openness, transparency and continuous improvement. 

GOSH particularly welcomes applications from historically under-represented groups, including people with disabilities and members of minority ethnic communities, in order to increase representation at senior levels of the organisation.   

Working for our organisation

GOSH is committed to recruiting the best person for the job, based solely on their ability and individual merit as measured against the criteria for the role; through a process that is fair, open, consistent and free from bias and discrimination.

We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture where all staff are valued, respected and acknowledged. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, disability status or length of time spent unemployed.

We particularly welcome applications from BAME communities, people with disabilities and/or long-term health conditions and LGBT+ community members.

We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants and employees are treated fairly and consistently. We are proud to be accredited as a Disability Confident Employer, a member of Business Disability Forum and a Stonewall Diversity Champion.

We have active and Executive supported BAME, LGBT+ and Allies, Disability and Long-Term Health Conditions and Women’s staff networks. Staff networks are employee-led groups formed around interests, issues and a common bond or background. Staff network members create a positive and inclusive work environment at Great Ormond Street Hospital by actively contributing to the Trust’s mission, values and efforts specific to inclusion. All of our staff networks are open to any employee.