Deputy Director Norfolk Community Health & Social Care | Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	23 Medi 2025
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£91,342 - £105,337 per annum
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	25 Hydref 2025
Lleoliad:	NORWICH, NR2 3TU
Cwmni:	Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	7497316/839-7497316-AB

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Job Overview:

We’re looking for a skilled, experienced and passionate leader to join our integrated team as Deputy Director of Community Health & Social Care – Community Health Portfolio.

This is a key role working across Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust and Norfolk County Council. You’ll help shape how health and care services work together in our communities — driving improvement, transformation and better outcomes.

You’ll lead the community health portfolio and work closely with the Deputy Director for Social Care to support the Director in delivering joined-up services, quality improvement and system leadership.

This role is a great chance for a strong and credible leader determined to bring integrated, neighbourhood health care into reality.



Main Responsibilities:

• Lead day-to-day operations across our community health portfolio, ensuring safe, high-quality services.
• Drive quality improvement and performance across the Trust.
• Develop systems and processes that support neighbourhood and place-based care.
• Lead transformation of planned care, identifying new ways to deliver efficient, effective services.
• Work closely with senior leaders, communities and partners to co-design improvement plans.
• Ensure robust governance, data and assurance systems are in place.
• Deputise for the Director when needed, including line management responsibilities.
• Lead emergency planning and business continuity across the portfolio.
• Translate strategy into clear, actionable plans — and bring teams along with you.
• Take part in the senior manager on-call rota.

What We’re Looking For:

You’ll bring strong, credible leadership and deep expertise in community health. You’ll be confident setting high standards for safety and quality, and passionate about driving change that matters.

You’ll be values-led, focused on outcomes, and ready to lead with purpose.

Why This Role? Why Now?

This is an exciting time to join us. We’re building a stronger, more integrated partnership — with community at the heart of everything we do.

You’ll be part of a compassionate, inclusive leadership team, working together to deliver the best possible care for the people of Norfolk.

Big challenges. Big opportunities. Real impact.



This is an exciting opportunity to work collaboratively with senior Directors and leaders across health and care as we shape the future of our services with community at the heart of it. You will be at the centre of leading significant and meaningful changes with a renewed integrated partnership in place to drive our ambitions.

Working with us means you’ll play a key role in delivering more personalised care, closer to home which is vital in supporting patients’ recovery from illness and leading efforts on preventative and wellness services.

You will be joining a compassionate and inclusive integrated team committed to delivering the best possible care to our community.

NCH&C is proud to be the first standalone NHS community trust in the UK to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Our focus is on continually improving the quality of care we offer to local people and on improving access to that care. Praising NCH&C’s “compassionate, inclusive and effective leadership at all levels”, the CQC observed that our staff are well supported to make positive changes and innovations.

Job Purpose:
As Deputy Director of Community Health & Social Care, this role will provide high-level strategic and operational leadership across Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust (NCHC) and in partnership with Norfolk County Council (NCC). The role will hold the health portfolio and will work in partnership with the Deputy Director – social care portfolio, to support the Director in delivering integrated service delivery, quality improvement, and system leadership and management. The role will be accountable for operational performance, quality governance, and driving transformation across place-based health services — ensuring alignment with agreed organisational and system objectives and priorities.

The role will deputise for the Director and act as the Deputy Accountable Emergency Planning Officer across the health portfolio. The role will also provide cover for the social care portfolio Deputy Director as required.
The role will lead significant transformation and integration programmes of change across the portfolio of services. In particular, the role will take service wide leadership of planned care improvements and direct leadership of the centralised business support team.

They will contribute towards the implementation of the health and care strategies for adults and older people in Norfolk, taking into consideration the requirements of place and differing population needs.

They will need to develop and monitor delivery of annual service plans to support delivery and drive continuous service improvement across areas of responsibility to ensure the delivery of high quality care within budget.


This advert closes on Wednesday 8 Oct 2025

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