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Associate Director of Nursing
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Are you an inspiring senior nurse leader ready to shape the future of care across a complex and evolving healthcare system?
Do you thrive on leading transformational change that improves outcomes, experience, and quality for service users and communities?
Can you bring strategic vision, operational grip, and compassionate leadership together to drive meaningful impact?
This is a pivotal senior leadership opportunity for an experienced and ambitious nurse leader to shape the delivery of high-quality, safe, and effective care across Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust.
As Associate Director of Nursing
You will play a critical role in providing visible, strategic, and professional leadership across clinical networks, ensuring outstanding outcomes for service users and communities. Working closely with the Director of Nursing and wider multi-professional leadership teams, you will lead on the development and delivery of service improvement, performance, and workforce strategies in line with Trust and system priorities across community and specialist teams.
You will drive excellence across the core dimensions of safety, effectiveness, and patient experience, while balancing operational performance, financial sustainability, and workforce development. This role requires a collaborative and forward-thinking leader who can influence at system level, build strong partnerships, and lead transformational change across complex services.
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Key Responsibilities
- Provide senior clinical and professional leadership across clinical networks, acting as a visible and credible leader
- Lead delivery of high-quality services, ensuring safety, effectiveness, and patient experience standards are met
- Take joint accountability for clinical, operational, and financial performance against local and national targets
- Develop and implement strategic plans and service improvement programmes aligned to Trust priorities
- Drive robust governance, risk management, and quality assurance frameworks across services
- Lead on workforce planning, development, and succession, supporting high-performing and compassionate teams
- Build and maintain effective partnerships across the Trust, ICS, regulators, and external organisations
- Influence and contribute to Trust-wide strategy, policy development, and transformation programmes
- Provide expert advice and leadership on clinical practice, quality improvement, and professional standards
- Champion equality, diversity, and inclusion, ensuring services meet the needs of all communities
About Us
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly, and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.
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Why Work for Us?
We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work, and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.
Why Norfolk and Suffolk?
The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We’re an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns, and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops, and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top-ranking schooling, and affordable house prices too.
Contact Us
For further details or informal visits, contact:
- Name: Daisy Mudoni
- Job Title: Director of Nursing
- Email Address: daisy.mudoni@nsft.nhs.uk
- Telephone Number: 07771957797
To arrange an informal conversation, please contact Donna Ling, PA, on 01284719756
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