236296 Director of Finance

Are you an experienced, visionary finance professional who wishes to play a key role in the transformation and renewal of health services at both local and national levels within NHS Scotland? If so, NHS Dumfries and Galloway is seeking an exceptional finance leader to work with the NHS Board and it’s key stakeholders to deliver an ambitious programme of reform and redesign with the ambition of providing the best possible sustainable model of health and care to our local population.

What’s in it for you?

• Lead the Financial Recovery of NHS Dumfries and Galloway: Be the mastermind behind bold, transformative financial strategies that captivate our staff and our communities and redefine the shape of healthcare in our region.
• Innovation Meets Passion: Dive into a role where your experience and expertise drives our teams of passionate healthcare professionals to innovate and reform.
• Lead a Dynamic Team: Inspire, lead and mentor a group of talented finance professionals who are eager to challenge convention and support the delivery of our financial recovery programme.
• Shape Dumfries and Galloway’s Financial Future: Engage with finance leaders nationally and internationally to leverage benefits to be gained from collaboration with other NHS Boards and experts further afield.

What We’re Looking For

• A strategic thinker with a mix of creativity and technical expertise
• A pioneer who thrives on challenge and is visionary whilst able to focus on delivery
• A leader with impeccable financial acumen coupled with an ability to engage a range of key stakeholders
• A finance expert ready to make significant change to the Financial landscape in Dumfries and Galloway

If you’re driven by passion, ready to disrupt the status quo and eager to deliver a transformed health and social care system for our people and staff – please join us, and redefine what is possible.

Why Choose Us?

• You will be joining a leadership team who are eager to embrace new ideas and technology to deliver our tactical and strategic priorities
• As a leader of a Scottish Health board you will have the opportunity to influence the direction of the NHS at a regional and national Level through Sub National Planning and various National groups and working directly with Scottish Government Colleagues.
• Our region although one of the smaller Health Boards, due to some of its remote and rural locality means we are faced with often different challenges to our Central belt colleagues and therefore opens up additional ways of working with other Remote and Rural Boards
• Our position on the border with England gives us unique opportunities to collaborate with other systems and we encourage opportunities to share and learn ideas.

If you have the COMPASSION and OPENESS to listen to ideas, gain others trust and be able to gain RESPECT of colleagues at all levels of the organisation through open conversation; whilst promoting EXCELLENCE through harnessing the skills and energies of our teams to drive those innovative ideas then we want you to consider joining our team.

Please see the Director Pack for full details of the job and use the links in the pack to find out more about Working in Dumfries and Galloway by exploring our Work with us pages of website

How To Apply

If you are interested in applying for this role:

• Please submit your CV
• Please provide a written response of three examples of experience that demonstrates your suitability for this role.

Please send the above by email to [email protected] by midnight, Tuesday 27th January 2026

INFORMATION FOR ALL CANDIDATES

To find out more about working with NHS Dumfries and Galloway and for an insight into our friendly, beautiful corner of Scotland please visit our Work With Us web pages APPLICATION PROCESS -

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• Staff and patients across Dumfries and Galloway enjoy free, unlimited parking at all our hospital sites.

DISCLOSURE SCOTLAND

– Some of our posts may require you to undergo a criminal records check. Changes as of the 1 April 2025 to the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme membership now sees more roles requiring PVG that may not have needed this check in the past. If you are successful in this role you will be notified which level of check is required by the recruitment team. If you would like to read more information please visit: Disclosure levels - mygov.scot

EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY

NHS Dumfries and Galloway is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Dumfries and Galloway welcomes applicants from all sections of the community.

PUBLIC PROTECTION

Public protection practice encompasses the recognition and management of risk in order to prevent or reduce harm to children, (including unborn babies), young people and adults. All public protection legislation, and NHS Dumfries and Galloway (NHSDG) policies and guidance are founded on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the European Convention on Human Rights, and the principles of these Conventions underpin all NHSDG core business.

Additional Information For International Candidates

RIGHT TO WORK IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

NHS Dumfries and Galloway has a legal obligation to ensure that it does not employ any worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK. This permission is without exception granted by the UK Border Agency. We are required to check the entitlement to work in the UK of all prospective employees, regardless of nationality or job category.

WORK VISA

If you require a Work Visa, please check to see if you and the vacancy you are applying for are eligible by visiting the Home Office website:

It is ESSENTIAL that you have checked that you either already have an appropriate right to work in the UK or if you require a work visa that the post would be eligible to be sponsored BEFORE submitting your application form. We are unable to provide sponsorship for bank contracts.

UNITED KINGDOM REGISTRATION

NHS Dumfries & Galloway are unable to support OSCE Training for international nurses for vacancies.

Vacancies requiring professional registration require full United Kingdom registration with the appropriate council (eg NMC, HCPC, GMC, GDC etc).