Job vacancy: Corporate Governance Manager - Office of the Managing Director, Public Health Wales NHS Trust, Cardiff

Job summary

Main area: Corporate Governance
Grade: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 028-AC101-0526

Employer: Public Health Wales NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: River House
Town: Cardiff
Salary: £50,129 - £57,365 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 14/06/2026 23:59

Corporate Governance Manager - Office of the Managing Director

Band 7

Welcome to NHS Wales Performance and Improvement, a new national support function, operational from 1 April 2023

Our key purpose is to…

Drive improvements in the quality and safety of care - resulting in better and more equitable outcomes, access and patient experience, reduced variation, and improvements in population health.

To find out more visit NHS Wales Performance and Improvement.

Our values

Working together, with trust and respect, to make a difference

Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English. To support our all Wales service, we particularly welcome applications from Welsh speakers.

Important Note for vacancies offered on a fixed-term or secondment basis.
Individuals who hold permanent (substantive) employment within the NHS may only be appointed via secondment. Approval for a secondment must be obtained from your current line manager prior to submitting an application.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Provide senior business support to the Managing Director, including correspondence management, drafting briefings and documents, and proactive action tracking and progress chasing.

· Act as a single point of contact for executive-level meeting administration, including coordinating papers and supporting materials, facilitating meetings and taking appropriate follow-up actions.

· Build and maintain constructive relationships with internal and external stakeholders (including NHS Wales bodies, Welsh Government and partners), handling highly sensitive and confidential matters with discretion.

· Support corporate governance and assurance processes, including ensuring submissions are fit for purpose and aligned to the cycle of business.

· Establish, implement and continuously improve systems, processes, standard operating procedures and information management arrangements that support effective executive working.

· Contribute to performance improvement activity, including investigating variance from plans/targets and supporting implementation of solutions.

· Provide project/programme coordination and support as required, identifying interdependencies, risks and issues and maintaining appropriate governance and reporting.

Person specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

Essential criteria

Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
Post-graduate degree in Management Studies or equivalent level of substantial experience in a high-level business support post.

Experience

Essential criteria

Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment
Previous experience of Business Management within a health or social care setting, supporting higher management
Previous experience in a similar environment supervising and managing administrative staff
Evidence of supporting business administration to Executive Board Members level
Experience of complex diary management and managing conflicting priorities
Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at SMT level.

NHS Wales Performance and Improvement, reserves the right to close this vacancy early. We therefore encourage early applications.

Priority is given to staff awaiting redeployment. We therefore reserve the right to withdraw this advert at any stage.

If you have a disability and have any particular requirements to enable you to participate in the application process, please contact [email protected]

IMPORTANT NOTE FOR APPLICANTS: Applications for our roles are carefully reviewed and shortlisted based on specific criteria, which varies from job to job. Using a generic application to apply for multiple roles or relying on automated AI application services, such as Lazy Apply or AI Apply, may not provide the necessary information, leading to your application being overlooked. To ensure your application is given full consideration, we recommend submitting a tailored application that directly addresses the criteria listed in the Person Specification section of the advert.

If you are successful and short listed for interview you will be contacted by email using the address with which you registered. Please ensure you check your email account regularly.

We are committed to fair, transparent recruitment and believe in equality of opportunity in our workplace and will not tolerate discrimination on grounds of age, disability, gender identity, religion or belief, race or nationality, marriage or civil partnership status, sex, sexual orientation, working pattern, caring responsibilities, trade union activity or political beliefs – or on any other grounds. We welcome applications from individuals who may wish to work part time or apply on a job share basis.

To work in the UK, all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship to obtain either a Health and Care visa or Skilled Worker visa, unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply should self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship by visiting Work in the UK. If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.

The salary scale shown is for a full-time member of staff, with the amount being adjusted pro rata for those working less than 37.5 hours per week.

In general, anyone joining our organisation who has not previously worked in the NHS will, by default, start on the first point of the advertised pay band. Pay progression will then be determined by annual Performance and Development Reviews in accordance with the NHS Wales Pay Progression Policy. An application for Incremental Credit may be considered, but can only be awarded based on evidenced, reckonable service and/or equivalent, relevant experience.