Clinical Director | East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust


Company:	Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust
Salary:	£79,504 - £91,609 per annum
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Norwich, NR2 3TU
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	4 Aug 2026
Closing date:	3 Sept 2026

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Summary

Are you an inspiring senior clinical leader ready to shape the future of community-based urgent and intermediate care? AtEast of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust (EEC), we are offering an exceptional opportunity to join our leadership team asClinical Director for Intermediate Care and Urgent Community Response,on a 12 month fixed term contract or secondment, to support with the ambitious transformation programme.

This is a high-impact role, where you work in partnership with the other Clinical Director to lead the clinical and quality agenda across our Intermediate Care and Unscheduled Care services, driving excellence, innovation, and integration across the system.

At EEC, our mission isto deliver great health and care services in our local communitiesandachieve our vision oftransforming lives and building healthier communities together.Our work is grounded in our values of:

• Integrity

• Compassion

• Inclusion

• Ambition

This is more than a leadership role – it’s a chance toshape the future of urgent and intermediate care, improve patient outcomes and lead meaningful change across the health and care system.

If you are ready to take on a high-impact leadership role and help transform community care at scale, we would love to hear from you.

Please contact Kirsty Rowden, Director of Intermediate Care and Urgent Community Response.

Email:kirsty.rowden@nhs.net Telephone number: 07765 400999

As Clinical Director, you will:

• Providevisible, expert clinical leadershipacross intermediate and urgent community response services

• Lead aculture of continuous quality improvement, ensuring safe, effective, and patient-centred care

• Influence and deliverTrust-wide improvement programmes, shaping the future of our services

• Work collaboratively withsystem partners, playing a key role in integrated care delivery across the region

You will join an ambitious, forward-thinking senior leadership team, with the opportunity to make a tangible difference to how care is delivered in the community.

As Clinical Director, you will help bring these values to life while leading delivery against our priorities, to:

• Put people in control of their care

• Value our colleagues

• Work in partnerships

• Innovate and transform our organisation

We are looking for a senior clinician who:

• Brings astrong track record of senior clinical leadershipin complex healthcare systems

• Is passionate aboutcommunity-based care and system innovation

• Has experience inquality improvement and service transformation

• Thrives incollaborative, partnership-driven environments

• Can inspire teams and influence at bothorganisational and system level

Please note, the selection processes at East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right values and skills, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain watchful of candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn’t accurately reflect their skills.

This role will include a stakeholder panel prior to interview.

To work with the Director of Place/Directorate to lead the delivery of community health services across one of the operational areas within NCH&C. This will include the coordination, and implementation of the clinical quality & safety, management of people and resources.The post holderwillleadthedeliveryofservicesinordertoensuredeliveryofthetrust’squalityagendato include safety, clinical effectiveness and patient experience.

To work as a member of the Norfolk Adult and Older Peoples Senior Leadership Team to formulate and ensure the delivery of the trust corporate strategies, clinical strategy and operational business plan.

Work across the operational area to provide professional and managerial leadership and direction. You will lead on identified portfolio area(s) of clinical leadership across Norfolk Adults and Older People, working withkeyrelevant system partners to improve specific clinical patient pathways across Norfolk.

Leadonbehalfoftheoperationalareathedevelopmentofajointclinicalstrategy,workingclosely with partners within the local PCN to achieve this.Ensure that professionals contribute to and influence business and service planning and developments.

Actively promote modernisation and new ways of working activity across the operational area, actively leading innovation and a culture of continuous quality improvement.

To work in partnership with the group model Nursing and Quality directorate to lead the safeguarding agenda within the identified operational area. In partnership with the Director of Place/Directoratetoberesponsibleforthequalityandperformanceofyouridentifiedoperational area,includingserviceeffectiveness,livedexperienceandoutcomes,complaints,andworkforce planning. Lead Quality Improvement initiatives within the operational area and work with other CDs in other operational areas to embed joint quality improvement initiatives across the organisation. Provide clinical leadership for the Directorate, working in partnership with the Place/LeadDirectortoensurethedeliveryofsafe,effectiveservicesfortheoperationalarea.To lead on quality assurance against regulatory standards and expectations.

This post will lead teams to deliver the required outcomes of the long-term plan relating to quality.

Be part of the senior staff on-call rota system.

This advert closes on Tuesday 18 Aug 2026

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