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Job summary

Main area
Nursing
Grade
Band 8a
Contract
Fixed term: 1 year (or Secondment)
Hours
  • Full time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
246-WSN7486989
Employer
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Chatterton House
Town
Kings Lynn
Salary
£55,690 - £62,682 gross per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
13/11/2025 23:59

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Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust logo

Community Matron - Adult Community Services, West Locality

Band 8a

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams.  We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience

Job overview

Do you have a track record of providing high quality care? Are you a credible clinician looking for your next opportunity? West Norfolk locality is recruiting a Community Matron for a fixed term (or secondment) of 12 months, to cover maternity leave. Secondments will also be considered. The position will be to support the adult community services. This includes West CMHT, ADHD service across Norfolk; OpCourage and the Veterans Integrated Service.

The post holder will work closely with the operational manager and have overall responsibility for the clinical and financial management functions of their designated services. This will involve ensuring effective and efficient clinical, quality and safety performance working alongside the operational associate director and holding joint responsibility for financial management; the delivery of evidence-based patient care and these services are safe. In conjunction with the lead clinician, the Community Matron will provide clear, visible leadership, strategic vision, and good clinical knowledge and experience in the specialism.

Main duties of the job

As Matron, you will work closely with the locality leadership team to ensure that high quality care is delivered within your services and will provide professional leadership to the nursing workforce.

You will promote a culture of learning and openness and ensure clinical staff have the knowledge, capability, systems and support to deliver evidence based care and embed lessons learned in practice for the improvement of patient experience.

We are looking to appoint individuals who have a passion for their work and a track record of achievement in influencing colleagues and partners to deliver high quality care. We want inspirational and compassionate leaders who will develop their teams to provide outstanding care.
If you have a reputation for leadership, people development, quality and improvement alongside a passion for improving outcomes with a focus on equity and inclusion to ensure that mental health provision has parity across our partners, then please do consider applying for one of these vital roles.

We are determined to create a safer, kinder and better organisation

Working for our organisation

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.

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. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Some of the benefits you can expect:

  • NHS pension
  • a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
  • career progression
  • starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
  • staff physio service
  • NHS discounts and many more.

Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs

 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Diploma level/Degree in relevant health/social care profession, eg RMN, RLDN OT, Social Worker.
  • Current relevant registration with the NMC or HCPC
Desirable criteria
  • Masters Level Degree or equivalent

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Clinical Leadership and clinical care
  • Involvement in managing change/projects.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Veteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyMenopause Friendly EmployerAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldImproving working livesArmed Forces Covenant (Silver Award)Mindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.We offer Wagestream - A financial wellbeing benefit which lets you access your pay as you earn it.Disability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Step into healthNational Preceptorship for Nursing Quality MarkHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingWomens Staff NetworkCycle to Work

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Sola Folola
Job title
Associate Director of Nursing
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01553 609933
Additional information

Mark Catling (Locality Director of Operations) [email protected]

OR

Vanessa Wragg (Associate Director of Operations) [email protected]

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