East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Matron for Community Nursing
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Are you an ambitious, values-driven nursing leader with a passion for delivering outstanding care closer to home?
We are seeking a Matron for the Community Clinical Delivery Group (CDG) to lead and inspire our nursing workforce across East Suffolk. This is a unique opportunity to help in shaping the future of community healthcare at a time of significant transformation.
This role offers the opportunity to influence the future of community services through strong clinical leadership, workforce development, quality improvement and partnership working, ensuring safe, effective and integrated care is delivered closer to home.
As Matron, you will provide visible professional leadership for the nursing workforce across community services in East Suffolk. You will work in partnership with clinical, operational and system leaders to ensure the delivery of safe, effective, compassionate and high-quality care.
You Will Be Responsible For
- Leading and developing a diverse community nursing workforce.
- Providing professional nursing leadership across Integrated Neighbourhood Teams and community services.
- Driving quality, safety, patient experience and continuous improvement.
- Supporting workforce planning, recruitment, retention and succession planning.
- Delivering professional standards, governance and assurance.
- Developing future nursing leaders and creating a positive culture where staff can thrive.
- Contributing to the strategic development of community services as we continue to expand care closer to home and strengthen neighbourhood-based models of care.
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We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
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Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Kelly Ward
- Job title: Senior Matron for Community Nursing
- Email address: Kelly.Ward@esneft.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07949 057218
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