Job summary
Are you a dynamic and passionate leader ready to influence the future of the nursing and midwifery workforce? We are seeking an experienced and dedicated professional to join our team as the Associate Director of Workforce Transformation, with a focus on Nursing and Midwifery. This is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in shaping current and future strategies and plans to enable and support the nursing and midwifery professions to meet the everchanging needs of populations and respond to the changing landscape of health and care delivery.
As the Professional workforce lead you will apply your professional, clinical and service knowledge, expertise, and experience to directly influence and set the direction of workforce development and transformation for the nursing and midwifery professional groups. You will be accountable for ensuring HEIW provides a national offer of support to drive innovation, development and transformation of sustainable workforce solutions aimed at improving the quality of care to patients. You will be the lead for the design, development and implementation of major workforce programmes across Wales formulating long term strategic plans and will be the expert in their field.
Main duties of the job
- Ensure effective arrangements are in place for the delivery of workforce modernisation programmes across primary, community and secondary care in support of A Healthier Wales, NHS Wales National Programmes, Welsh Government priorities, Duty of Quality, NHS Wales in 10+ years.
- Manage a complex set of stakeholder relationships required to deliver changes across education, service, government and private/industry sectors, this will include working with clinicians, director-level managers and private organisations.
- To be a visible leader facilitating and engaging staff and clinicians to contribute to the overall strategic direction of workforce and education improvement/ transformation.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
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 Specification attached 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 Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential
- Registered Nurse qualification on the NMC register.
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Higher Degree - Masters level education or equivalent
- Extensive Knowledge/ experience of the nursing and midwifery agenda acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience.
- Extensive specialist knowledge required over all nursing and midwifery matters as well as the wider health professional workforce.
- Sound knowledge of the NHS, current Government policies, workforce related initiatives
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working at a senior level within the nursing and midwifery profession
- An understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy in Wales and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
- Effective partnership working with Health and Social Care organisations.
- Effective partnership working with education providers.
- Experience of effectively working with regulatory bodies.
- Experience in clinical or social care.
- Senior management experience including budget management.
- Successful delivery of complex projects
- Implementing change in a complex environment
Other
Essential
- Prepared to travel extensively across Wales and UK where necessary.
Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Excellent operational management skills
- A facilitating and enabling approach and a team player.
- Strategic and analytical thinker with diagnostic and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to develop ideas and translate strategy into action.
- Ability to focus on the delivery of outcomes. Ability to work across organisations and to create and sustain effective working relationships at all levels.
- Ability to focus on the delivery of outcomes.
- Demonstrates initiative, decisiveness and compassionate leadership.
Desirable
- Welsh Speaker (Level 1) or willingness to work towards
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential
- Registered Nurse qualification on the NMC register.
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Higher Degree - Masters level education or equivalent
- Extensive Knowledge/ experience of the nursing and midwifery agenda acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience.
- Extensive specialist knowledge required over all nursing and midwifery matters as well as the wider health professional workforce.
- Sound knowledge of the NHS, current Government policies, workforce related initiatives
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working at a senior level within the nursing and midwifery profession
- An understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy in Wales and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
- Effective partnership working with Health and Social Care organisations.
- Effective partnership working with education providers.
- Experience of effectively working with regulatory bodies.
- Experience in clinical or social care.
- Senior management experience including budget management.
- Successful delivery of complex projects
- Implementing change in a complex environment
Other
Essential
- Prepared to travel extensively across Wales and UK where necessary.
Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Excellent operational management skills
- A facilitating and enabling approach and a team player.
- Strategic and analytical thinker with diagnostic and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to develop ideas and translate strategy into action.
- Ability to focus on the delivery of outcomes. Ability to work across organisations and to create and sustain effective working relationships at all levels.
- Ability to focus on the delivery of outcomes.
- Demonstrates initiative, decisiveness and compassionate leadership.
Desirable
- Welsh Speaker (Level 1) or willingness to work towards
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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).
