Clinical Lead- Ipswich East | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£49,387 - £56,515 per annum
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Ipswich, IP1 2DH
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	5 Oct 2026
Closing date:	4 Nov 2026

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Summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the IP4 Ipswich East Integrated Neighbourhood Team, based at Constantine House (IP1 2DH). This a fixed term, full time 10 month post for a Band 7 Lead Community Nurse.

The role will involve day to day leadership and management of the Nursing team, passing on knowledge and advice, service development opportunities and enhancing clinical leadership skills.

You will support the delivery of a high quality, safe and compassionate healthcare service and provide professional leadership for the staff employed within the nursing service based within the team.

You will be primarily working alongside the 3 other established band 7 nurse leads in Area 4 (Ipswich East and West INT), with the additional support of the Integrated Neighbourhood Team Manager and as a triumvirate with the Therapy and Social Care Leads within the team.

Applications are invited from experienced Nurses who hold the District Nurse Specialist Practice qualification and have experience working at a band 6.

Please see the attached Job description for further details regarding the essential criteria.

• Responsibility for the provision of nursing services within the Integrated team to the local community. Including the development and implementation of new initiatives within nursing services here in Ipswich East.

• Responsibility to support, maintain and develop best practice among the team to ensure quality care provision to patients and their carers and families.

• Responsibility to manage and oversee the complex cases liaising with specialist services and multidisciplinary team to ensure a coordinated care approach for patients while supporting staff to feel able and confident to care for such complexity of patient need.

• Ability to act as a role model motivating and empowering staff within the Nursing and wider INT team.

• Expectation to support further development of the Integrated Team welcoming new services and staff joining the team. Working professionally with different disciplines, professionals and organisations to achieve the best patient outcomes.

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 12 Oct 2026

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