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Job overview
As a Community Eating Disorders Matron, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring safe, high-quality, evidence-based care while providing visible leadership to multidisciplinary teams. You'll help shape services, support staff development, oversee governance and patient safety, and contribute to the continued transformation of community-based care.
Main duties of the job
You will hold overall responsibility for the clinical, operational, quality, performance and financial management of designated community services, working in partnership with operational and clinical leaders. You will provide expert clinical leadership, support complex case management, and lead improvements that enhance patient safety, experience and outcomes.
Key responsibilities include:
- Providing professional and clinical leadership across community services.
- Driving quality improvement, patient safety and clinical governance initiatives.
- Supporting and developing multidisciplinary teams through supervision, coaching and mentorship.
- Leading on risk management, safeguarding and compliance with regulatory standards.
- Supporting the delivery of evidence-based practice and service development programmes.
- Working collaboratively with service users, carers, staff and partner organisations.
- Acting as a visible and accessible leader across services.
- Supporting the management of complex clinical cases and providing specialist advice.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
If you are a compassionate and ambitious clinical leader looking for your next challenge, we'd love to hear from you. Join us and help shape the future of community services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
Together, we can deliver outstanding care and improve lives.
Person specification
Other
Essential
- Ability to travel to all Trust locations.
Knowledge
Essential
- Good working knowledge of wider health and social care system and structures, policies, procedures and legislation relevant to clinical areas
Experience
Essential
- Service improvement and development
- Clinical Leadership and clinical care
Desirable
- Experience of community care
Qualifications
Essential
- Current relevant registration with the NMC or HCPC
Desirable
- Masters Level Degree or equivalent
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This advert is for Community Matron with Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust in Norwich, East of England, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Nurse (adult and children) role. The advertised salary is £57,528 - £64,750 pa. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 04 Aug 2026.
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