Chris Walker – Interim Director of Finance

Chris Walker joined the Trust in 2009 as deputy director of finance and we are happy to announce that he joins the board as interim director of finance, bringing with him over 30 years of experience working within the NHS.

Chris was born and educated in Dudley and continues to live local. Chris began his career as a trainee accountant in 1992 with the West Midlands Regional Health Authority based in Birmingham.

Chris’s first substantive role was with South Birmingham Health Authority and then in 1994, after  Trust’s were first established, went to work for Southern Birmingham Community Health NHS Trust as a financial accountant based at West Heath Hospital in Birmingham. In 1996 he moved to South Birmingham Mental Health Trust at Monyhull Hospital. During his time there, he qualified as an accountant and took on the role of deputy director of finance. Chris gained experience of working through various mergers involving the organisation as well as the Trust becoming a Foundation Trust.

In 2009 he joined The Dudley Group as deputy director of finance. Chris’s role has expanded over the last fifteen years to include managing the Trust’s estates team and leading on the management of the Trust’s PFI contract. Chris became the Trust’s operational director of finance in 2023 as well as taking the lead role for capital for the Black Country ICS.