Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Lead Health Inequalities - Strategic Workforce Plan for Primary Care
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: GP Educator
- Contract
- 10 months (Until 31st March 2026 due to funding. This post is being offered as a secondment opportunity only. If you wish to apply, you must have your line manager’s approval before making an application. This post is for a fixed secondment period but may be extended or made permanent at the end of the secondment period depending on available funding and business requirement.)
- Hours
- 2 sessions per week (Part Time)
- Job ref
- 082-AC033-0525
- Employer
- Health Education and Improvement Wales
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ty Dysgu
- Town
- Nantgarw
- Salary
- £109,061 - £134,057 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Lead – Health Inequalities
NHS Medical & Dental: GP Educator
Job overview
Secondment until 31st March 2026
This post is being offered for a fixed term period. Applications from any NHS employees (excluding those employed by independent contractors) will be considered only as a secondment opportunity. In this case, all NHS employees must have their line manager’s approval before making an application.
This post is for a secondment period. It may be extended or made permanent at the end of that period depending on available funding and business requirement, but there is no guarantee of continued employment in HEIW.
If you are interested in applying for the secondment position, you must obtain permission from your current line manager prior to applying for this post.
An opportunity has risen for a GP Clinical Lead to join the HEIW National Programmes team for two sessions per week to play a key role in the implementation of the inequalities related actions in the Strategic Workforce Plan for Primary Care. Working with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, the post holder will provide clinical leadership to the delivery of HEIW actions, driving forward an ambitious programme of work
Main duties of the job
The postholder will be responsible for providing clinical oversight and expert advice in support of the implementation of the inequality's actions of the Strategic Workforce Plan for Primary Care working alongside the Assistant Director for National Programmes who you will be accountable to.
o The postholder will work closely with the Director of GP Postgraduate Education and the Director of Multi-professional Education and Training in Primary Care to ensure that delivery plans are aligned, particularly in respect of areas relating to education and training the multi-professional workforce across primary care
o The postholder will be responsible for building relationships with colleagues across NHS Wales including Health Board Associate Medical Directors; the Strategic Programme for Primary Care and Public Health Colleagues, as well as other strategic partners such as Deep End professional bodies and WG clinical and policy leads
o The postholder will maintain a strategic focus on inequalities in primary care including horizon scanning and understanding best practice
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 find a full job description and person specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply Now” to view in Trac.
Interviews will be held on 11th and 12th June 2025.
Person specification
Qualifications and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Professional registration with GMC
- Evidence of CPD
- Training or qualifications in education/training/mentoring
- Awareness of national priorities and drivers for change and their importance to health inequalities in primary care.
- Ability to Travel across Wales
- Experience of Effective Stakeholder Engagement
- Extensive Primary Care Knowledge
- Experience as a senior leader delivering change projects in complex environments.
- Experience of Delivering Successful Programmes
- Partnership working with health and care organisations.
- Extensive experience of working in areas of greater deprivation
- Supportive of others to improve capacity and capability in program management.
- Passion for workforce transformation.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to speak Welsh
- Membership of RCGP
- Knowledge of HEIW remit
- Knowledge of Emerging Healthcare Technologies
- Experience of implementing change initiatives in areas of greater deprivation
- Experience of mentoring
- Previous experience working within HEIW
English
Essential criteria
- Experience of promoting Multi Disciplinary Teams
English
Essential criteria
- Experience of promoting Multi Disciplinary Teams
Desirable criteria
- Previous Experience of Working within HEIW
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Victoria Whitbread
- Job title
- Clinical Lead SWPPC
- Email address
- [email protected]
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