Clinical Director

Clinical Director

The closing date is 24 June 2026

Are you an inspiring senior clinical leader ready to shape the future of community-based urgent and intermediate care? At East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust (EEC), we are offering an exceptional opportunity to join our leadership team as Clinical Director for Intermediate Care and Urgent Community Response
.

This is a high-impact role where you will 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 is to deliver great health and care services in our local communities and achieve our vision of transforming 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 to shape 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.

As Clinical Director, you will:

• Provide visible, expert clinical leadership across intermediate and urgent community response services
• Lead a culture of continuous quality improvement
  , ensuring safe, effective, and patient-centred care
• Influence and deliver Trust-wide improvement programmes
  , shaping the future of our services
• Work collaboratively with system 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
• Work in partnerships
• Innovate and transform our organisation

We are looking for a senior clinician who:

• Brings a strong track record of senior clinical leadership in complex healthcare systems
• Is passionate about community-based care and system innovation
• Has experience in quality improvement and service transformation
• Thrives in collaborative, partnership-driven environments
• Can inspire teams and influence at both organisational and system level

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 holder will lead the delivery of services in order to ensure delivery of the trusts quality agenda to 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 with key relevant system partners to improve specific clinical patient pathways across Norfolk.

Lead on behalf of the operational area the development of a joint clinical strategy, working closely 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/Directorate to be responsible for the quality and performance of your identified operational area, including service…