Senior Community Matron | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

We are seeking an exceptional Senior Matron to join our Community Services leadership team across North East Essex (NEE). This is an exciting opportunity for a visible, engaged, and forward-thinking leader who is passionate about delivering high-quality, patient-centred care and shaping the future of community services.

We are looking for a highly motivated and credible leader who, has had previous experience in a senior leadership role, and demonstrates strong visible leadership and the ability to inspire and engage teams. Experience in the community services or integrated care settings would be desirable.

As Senior Matron, you will play a pivotal role in leading and supporting the transformation of community services across North East Essex. You will provide strong clinical and operational leadership across:

• Three established community wards
• A fourth community ward opening this Summer
• Governance and quality oversight for the Proactive Neighbourhood Clinical Delivery Group

This role is integral to ensuring safe, effective, and responsive care delivery, while driving innovation and continuous improvement across services.

This is a unique opportunity to influence and shape the future of community services in North East Essex. You will be part of a supportive leadership team with a shared commitment to improving outcomes for our communities.

• Provide leadership for staff working in the Clinical Specialty
• Provide professional and managerial leadership for all nursing and support roles and be accountable for the safe, efficient delivery of patient care in line with current research/evidence, ensuring a framework of safe, effective practice
• Working closely with Sister/charge Nurse/Leads will, as a key member of the Clinical Specialty Senior Team, be responsible and accountable for facilitating the development, implementation and evaluation of the Trust and NHS commissioning requirements through clinical service delivery
• Actively contribute to the Nursing and Midwifery Board (NMB) with a focus in supporting development in nursing and clinical practice in line with the local and national nursing agenda.
• Deputise for the Head of Nursing and Clinical Services within the division.

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.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto 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 full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

This advert closes on Monday 1 Jun 2026