Job summary
Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) has an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic Allied Health Care Professional to join our dynamic team. This permanent senior strategic position is well suited to an individual looking to advance their career in workforce development and transformation and gain hands-on experience in a thriving and supportive organisation.
Main duties of the job
Responsibilities will include:
Leading the translation and delivery of national workforce frameworks and initiatives to support the development and implementation of sustainable workforce solutions aimed at improving patient care.
Researching, identifying and raising awareness of the specific workforce challenges within the professions and working with partners to influence the development and delivery of education and training programmes to support professional and clinical practice.
Interpreting overall health and social care policy and strategy into specific actions to support workforce development and transformation.
Leading on establishing engagement processes with key stakeholders and build strategic relationships with professional colleagues across the 4 nations
Maintaining a good knowledge and interpretation of emerging policies assessing opportunities for developing new workforce models, initiatives and risks to existing services.
About us
Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) is the strategic workforce body for NHS Wales with statutory functions that include education and training, workforce planning, workforce development and transformation, leadership and succession planning, and careers. Our purpose is to develop a workforce that delivers excellent care to patients/service users and excellent population health. We are a Special Health Authority working closely with our partners; Social Care Wales, education providers, professional and regulatory bodies and Welsh Government.
HEIW's is committed to developing an internal culture of choice. Our Values reflect our thoughts, feelings and beliefs in how we will, and will not, behave and treat others:
- Respect for All in every contact we have with others,
- Ideas that Improve: Harnessing creativity and continuously innovating, evaluating and improving,
- Together as a Team: Working with colleagues across NHS Wales and with partner organisations.
HEIW received the HPMA Award for Employee Engagement in 2019.
What you can expect:
- a corporate induction and 90 day Welcome itinerary,
- compassionate leadership,
- a meaningful values based performance appraisal process,
- the opportunity to impact upon health and social care services and the lives and wellbeing of the people of Wales.
Many of our colleagues and stakeholders have commented on the buzz and atmosphere we create by working together as "One HEIW Team". Do you want to join that team?
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specificationattached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specificationattached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional registration with HCPC or a voluntary registering body.
- Educated to master's level or equivalent of working at a very senior level
- Up to date and relevant post-qualifying and continuing professional development
Desirable
- Project management qualification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Experience of working at a very senior level within the Allied Health Profession
- Extensive specialist knowledge of wide range of disciplines as well as the wider health professional workforce acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience.
- Experience and understanding of the background to and aims of current health and social care policy, the NHS, current Government policies and work force initiatives in Wales and appreciation of the implications of this on engagement.
- Clear understanding of the workforce, service, and education transformation system.
- Attendance on a leadership development programme or evidence of implementing compassionate leadership principles and values.
- Experience of successful leadership and delivery of highly complex project/programme.
- Experience of delivering against competing priorities and deadlines while also directing the work of teams/individuals.
- Senior management level experience of budgetary responsibility.
- Experience of managing and leading staff and delivering results through the development and management of teams
- Extensive experience in stakeholder engagement including health and Social Care organisations, education providers and regulatory bodies.
- Experience of managing projects/programmes of work in challenging environments.
Desirable
- Experience of using and applying Quality Improvement methodology
Values and Behaviours
Essential
- Demonstrates a strong desire to improve workforce and service improvement by focusing on outcomes and benefits
- Able to make connections between the work and consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff to deliver better outcomes for service users
- Makes decisions, has a clear reason for the decisions made and is aware of their impact
- Willing to engage with and learn from peers, other professionals, and colleagues.
- Constructively challenges and accepts constructive challenge
- Effective organiser, influencer, and networker
- Professional calm, efficient and effective manner
- Able to adapt and be flexible to cope with uncertainty and change
- Shares knowledge and information and actively promotes transformational change and improvement
- Leads by example, tenacious, driven, and enthusiastic to achieve goals.
- Uses initiative and takes responsibility for own actions and behaviours and consistently looks to improve what they do, looking for successful tried and tested ways of working, and seeking out innovation
- Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of equality of opportunity and diversity taking into account and being aware of how individual actions contribute to and make a difference to the equality agenda
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional registration with HCPC or a voluntary registering body.
- Educated to master's level or equivalent of working at a very senior level
- Up to date and relevant post-qualifying and continuing professional development
Desirable
- Project management qualification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Experience of working at a very senior level within the Allied Health Profession
- Extensive specialist knowledge of wide range of disciplines as well as the wider health professional workforce acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience.
- Experience and understanding of the background to and aims of current health and social care policy, the NHS, current Government policies and work force initiatives in Wales and appreciation of the implications of this on engagement.
- Clear understanding of the workforce, service, and education transformation system.
- Attendance on a leadership development programme or evidence of implementing compassionate leadership principles and values.
- Experience of successful leadership and delivery of highly complex project/programme.
- Experience of delivering against competing priorities and deadlines while also directing the work of teams/individuals.
- Senior management level experience of budgetary responsibility.
- Experience of managing and leading staff and delivering results through the development and management of teams
- Extensive experience in stakeholder engagement including health and Social Care organisations, education providers and regulatory bodies.
- Experience of managing projects/programmes of work in challenging environments.
Desirable
- Experience of using and applying Quality Improvement methodology
Values and Behaviours
Essential
- Demonstrates a strong desire to improve workforce and service improvement by focusing on outcomes and benefits
- Able to make connections between the work and consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff to deliver better outcomes for service users
- Makes decisions, has a clear reason for the decisions made and is aware of their impact
- Willing to engage with and learn from peers, other professionals, and colleagues.
- Constructively challenges and accepts constructive challenge
- Effective organiser, influencer, and networker
- Professional calm, efficient and effective manner
- Able to adapt and be flexible to cope with uncertainty and change
- Shares knowledge and information and actively promotes transformational change and improvement
- Leads by example, tenacious, driven, and enthusiastic to achieve goals.
- Uses initiative and takes responsibility for own actions and behaviours and consistently looks to improve what they do, looking for successful tried and tested ways of working, and seeking out innovation
- Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of equality of opportunity and diversity taking into account and being aware of how individual actions contribute to and make a difference to the equality agenda
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
