Job overview

Are you a dynamic and experienced nurse leader passionate about mental health? 

 We are seeking a dedicated and experienced Matron to join our Community Teams based in the West Suffolk locality, overseeing our Children and Young People teams, serving the local populations of Bury St Edmunds and Newmarket.

In this pivotal role, you will:
✅ Provide expert clinical leadership across Children’s, and Specialist Suffolk Wide Neurodevelopmental services & MH in Schools
✅ Ensure the highest standards of care within community settings, supporting individuals in their own homes and local environments
✅ Drive service improvements, champion patient safety, and enhance care pathways
✅ Lead, develop, and inspire multidisciplinary teams to deliver compassionate, person-centred care

As a key figure in our community services, you will play a crucial role in shaping the future of mental health support for the people of West Suffolk. If you have a strong clinical background, leadership experience, and a commitment to making a real difference, we’d love to hear from you.

Be part of a team dedicated to transforming lives.

Main duties of the job

As Matron, you will work closely with the locality leadership team to ensure that high quality care is delivered within your services and will provide professional leadership to the nursing workforce.

You will promote a culture of learning and openness and ensure clinical staff have the knowledge, capability, systems and support to deliver evidence based care and embed lessons learned in practice for the improvement of patient experience.

We are looking to appoint individuals who have a passion for their work and a track record of achievement in influencing colleagues and partners to deliver high quality care. We want inspirational and compassionate leaders who will develop their teams to provide outstanding care.
If you have a reputation for leadership, people development, quality and improvement alongside a passion for improving outcomes with a focus on equity and inclusion to ensure that mental health provision has parity across our partners, then please do consider applying for one of these vital roles.

We are determined to create a safer, kinder and better organisation

Working for our organisation

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We’re an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.