Job summary
Employer heading
Directorate Manager - Business, Improvement, Strategy & Commissioning
Band 8c
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed
Job overview
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is looking for an ambitious senior leader to take up this fantastic opportunity to be part of a truly integrated mental health & learning disabilities (MH&LD) system for the wellbeing of our communities and population.
This role supports key operational teams to deliver for the population today, whilst working across the care group to define and develop our future models. As the post holder, you will provide visible leadership, direction, financial control and vision. You will be part of the Leadership Team for the MH&LD Care Group and you will be required to work with other operational Directorate Managers and senior corporate colleagues to enable our collective vision to be delivered sustainably for our population.
You will have strong project and program management skills, be highly organised, have a keen delivery mindset and capable of working collaboratively with our people and partners. You will posses the necessary passion, energy and credibility to delivery now and in the future.
Main duties of the job
You will have delivery responsibility for:
- All commissioned services for people with MH&LD through the independent sector, other Health Boards, Local Authorities and the Third Sector
- Performance reporting, analysis and improvement plans
- Strategic and transformational improvement projects which will change on a regular basis based on need and priorities
- Sustainable financial delivery
- Digital improvement and system implementation
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
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
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to Masters Level or equivalent qualification, knowledge and/or experience
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- In depth professional knowledge in staff management, performance management and financial management
- Detailed knowledge of performance management processes associated medical and other professional staff
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of financial management, budget setting, monitoring and determining corrective action in the NHS
- Experience of managing performance and ensuring targets and performance indicators are met
- Significant experience of managing projects to successful completion and organising programme of service change
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Elaine Lorton
- Job title
- Service Director - MH&LD
- Email address
- [email protected]
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