Deputy Associate Director of Nursing
We are seeking an exceptional and dynamic Senior Nurse (Band 8C) to join our Medicine and Community Services leadership team. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and forward-thinking nursing leader to play a key strategic role in shaping and delivering high-quality patient care across our medical services.
You will provide senior clinical and operational leadership across speciality medicine pathways, with oversight of inpatient medical services and elderly care wards. Working closely with multidisciplinary teams, clinical leaders, and operational managers, you will drive service improvement, support workforce development, and ensure the delivery of safe, effective and compassionate care.
This role is ideally suited to a motivated senior nurse leader who is passionate about improving patient outcomes, strengthening clinical pathways, and leading teams through innovation and transformation
Please note interviews are due to be held the week commencing 11th May
- The Senior Clinical Lead has responsibility for managing all aspects of the quality of the clinical service within a defined but varied group of services within a division, including the implementation of robust systems and processes to support the Trust’s development as a clinically led organisation
- The Senior Clinical Lead is accountable for the delivery of nursing clinical services within the defined services and is responsible for the nursing budget
About Us
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 offers a variety of services.
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 the 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: Tasha Machell
Job title: Associate Director of Nursing
Email address: Tasha.Machell@esneft.nhs.uk
