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East London NHS Foundation Trust; Bedford; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

East London NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting an interim Deputy Director to lead Bedfordshire Community Health Services, overseeing district nursing, palliative care, specialist nursing and community therapy in line with regulatory and contractual obligations.

The post holder will drive neighbourhood-based care models, foster partnerships at place level, and lead multi-disciplinary teams through organisational change to improve population health and service user experience.

Job description

Deputy Director | East London NHS Foundation Trust

East London Foundation Trust (ELFT) has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for providing high quality, accessible and responsive mental and adult community health care services within East London and Bedfordshire and Luton. The Trust is a key partner within the Central East Integrated Care System (ICS) and has an important role in the integration of health and social care services within the emerging neighbourhood health approach.

We are committed to collaborative working with system partners to ensure good outcomes are achieved for our service users, patients, families and carers and we achieve this through our dynamic and compassionate frontline teams who deliverhigh qualityoutcome focussed care.Our staff, working under the leadership and direction of the Directorate Management Team are constantly striving for the best for our population.

Bedfordshire Community Health Services has anexciting opportunity foran InterimDeputy Directorpostto join our Directorate Management Team at this exciting time of change within health and social care and are seeking confident, authentic, innovative leaders who have considerable experience within health and social care systems and are committed to co-production and compassionate leadership.

The Deputy Director for Bedfordshire Community Health Services provides leadership and operational management for the community health services in Bedfordshire in order to meet regulatory, business plans and contractual obligations, managing risks effectively and ensuring effective relationships are maintained with all our partners and external agencies. The post holder holds operational responsibility for district nursing, palliative care, specialist nursing and community therapy services whilst working alongside the Deputy Director for unplanned care (Bedfordshire and Luton wide role). This senior role will foster a culture that facilitates high staff morale and excellent service user experience.

The post holder will support, contribute and where appropriate lead the development of neighbourhood based models of care that support the delivery of shifting care closer to home, improved population health and more proactive and preventative care. They will work in collaboration with key stakeholders and take a lead role at place level in the development and maintenance of partnership arrangements, supporting the implementation of the Trusts Community Health strategy.

The successful candidate will be an experienced health or social care professional in an operational clinical or non-clinical capacity, have the knowledge and experience of leading multi-disciplinary teams, delivery of services and leading transformation to reflect local and national strategy.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for details of the duties and responsibilities of the role

This advert closes on Sunday 20 Sep 2026