Job summary
- Main area
- Healthcare Sciences
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- 22 months (Secondment until 31 March 2027 in line with available funding)
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 082-AC031-0525
- Employer
- Health Education and Improvement Wales
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ty Dysgu
- Town
- Cardiff
- Salary
- £54,550 - £61,412 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Lead for Multi Professional Research and Innovation
Band 8a
Job overview
This post is fixed term/secondment until 31st March 2027 in line with available funding.
This is an exciting opportunity to join HEIW on a secondment basis to support the development of Research and Innovation Transformation within Healthcare Science, Nursing, AHP and all health professionals in NHS Wales.
This is for a 0.6 whole-time equivalent post offered on a part time, flexible basis to be agreed. This is open to all professionals with NMC or HCPC registration, or who are on accredited healthcare science registers.
The postholder will work alongside the Programme Manager for Healthcare Science and Associate Director for Workforce Transformation, as well as with established HEIW functions. Working as part of a small team and taking a leading role in the Healthcare Science Research and Innovation Group and equivalent networks for Nursing, AHP and other healthcare professionals, the postholder will support developments towards Research and Innovation to support Workforce and Service Transformation.
If you wish to apply as a secondment opportunity, you must have your line manager’s approval. This post may be extended at the end of the secondment period depending on available funding and business needs.
Main duties of the job
This is a key role within the HEIW Nursing, Health Professions and Quality Directorate and the HEIW-managed national Healthcare Science Programme. The role encompasses leadership, strategic planning, and management of key aspects of healthcare science transformation and extended to wider NHS healthcare professions. As such the postholder will be required to work in a matrix style management arrangement supporting the Head of Healthcare Science Transformation as well as working alongside colleagues from within the Nurse and Health Professional Education Directorate and other professional leads.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
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?
Detailed job description and main 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
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience of working in the NHS.
- Experience of leading strategic developments within NHS settings
- Delivery of objectives in a cross- organisational environment and through multi-stakeholder negotiations.
- Experience of networking effectively and building relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.
- Experience of leadership, negotiation and influencing skills.
Desirable criteria
- Involvement in development and leadership of research and evaluation
- Experience of leading and implementing strategic change on a national level
Qualifications & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Educated to Master’s degree level in relevant subject, or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
- Professional Registration with the NMC, HCPC, or other relevant healthcare science registration body.
- Specialist, in-depth knowledge of research and innovation in NHS careers.
- Knowledge of HEIW’s remit and responsibilities
- Knowledge of the importance of emerging technology in healthcare and its importance to the health and care agenda
- Knowledge of the strategic direction for NHS Wales
Desirable criteria
- Postgraduate educational qualification
- Project management qualification e.g. PRINCE2
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel across Wales in a timely manner if required.
Desirable criteria
- Welsh Speaker
Skills and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate strategic thinking.
- Ability to problem solve and respond to sudden unexpected demands.
- Able to identify and resolve risks in highly complex scenarios.
- Proven ability to implement, monitor and report on quality and outcomes of developments.
- Highly skilled communicator able to influence, provide and receive, convey and present complex and potentially contentious information to large groups, responding to questions to ensure full understanding and engagement.
- Ability to analyse and understand a broad range of information quickly and make decisions where opinions differ or there is no obvious solution.
- Ability to interpret national policy and offer subject matter expertise to influence direction and implementation, with the confidence to debate this on a national stage.
- Able to concentrate for prolonged periods under pressure and adapt to unpredictable demands.
- Keyboard and informatics skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Sarah Bant
- Job title
- Associate Director - Healthcare Science
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
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