Job summary
- Main area
- Commissioning - Governance
- Grade
- Band 8d
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 110-AC069-0525
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Unit 1, Charnwood Court,
- Town
- Cardiff
- Salary
- £89,491 - £103,203 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Committee Secretary/Deputy Director of Corporate Governance (NWJCC)
Band 8d
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 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed
Job overview
Are you a governance professional with strong interpersonal and leadership skills? If so, an exciting leadership opportunity has arisen within the JCC as principal advisor to the Joint Commissioning Committee (JCC) and the JCC Team on all aspects of governance.
You will work with the JCC’s Senior Management Team, supporting the Chief Commissioner in fulfilling their Accountable Officer role and contributing to the development of strategy, commissioning arrangements and the delivery of JCC responsibilities, as appropriate.
The successful postholder will be critical to promoting organisational governance, assurance and be an ambassador in demonstrating our Values and Behaviours. You will provide sound advice to the Chair, Chief Commissioner and individual JCC team members on all aspects of governance, assurance and business. You will lead a team to ensure the Joint Committee and the JCC Team are effective conduct of its role, providing where appropriate, discreet, independent and challenging voice in relation to JCC deliberations and decision making. The successful candidate will work closely with Board Secretaries across the NHS Wales Health Boards and Governance colleagues within Welsh Government.
The successful candidate will have line management responsibility for the Assistant Director of Governance and Business.
Main duties of the job
The role of the Committee Secretary is a pivotal one within the JCC and the JCC Team as they are the principal advisor to the JCC and the JCC Team on all aspects of governance. You will work as a member of the JCC’s Senior Management Team, supporting the Chief Commissioner in fulfilling their Accountable Officer role and contributing to the development of strategy, commissioning arrangements and the delivery of JCC responsibilities.
The Committee Secretary will promote and help sustain governance and assurance standards within the JCC by:
- Keeping under review legislative, regulatory and governance developments that impact on the JCC’s activities and ensuring that the JCC is appropriately briefed on them;
- Winning the confidence of the JCC, acting as ‘wise counsel’ providing a confidential sounding board to the Chair, Chief Commissioner and individual JCC team members on all aspects of JCC business, including issues of concern;
- Guiding the JCC in the responsible and effective conduct of its role, providing where appropriate, a discreet, independent and challenging voice in relation to JCC deliberations and decision making;
- Ensuring that in all its dealings the JCC acts fairly, with integrity, and without prejudice or discrimination; and
- Contributing to the development of a culture that embodies NHS and JCC values and standards of behaviour.
- Playing a key role in protecting and enhancing the reputation of the JCC and NHS Wales.
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
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Person specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Educated to Master’s Degree level or equivalent experience working in a senior governance role.
- Professional knowledge of disciplines such as people management, information & technology and performance management gained over a substantial period through training and experience.
- Expert knowledge of a range of theoretical and practical work procedures and practices in respect of a committee secretary role, including, corporate governance, risk and assurance.
- In depth knowledge of the NHS and the political environment, its systems and the ability to communicate and transfer this knowledge to others.
- Able to demonstrate relevant professional CPD record.
- Welsh Speaker (Level 1 - courtesy Welsh) or willingness to work towards achieving this level.
Desirable criteria
- Fellow or Associate of the Institute of Corporate Governance (previously known as the Institute of Chartered Secretaries).
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive previous experience of working in a senior committee secretary role.
- Able to demonstrate the maintenance of expert technical knowledge required by a committee secretary to ensure robust corporate governance and mitigate risk.
- Experience of working through multi-disciplinary teams, including formal networks, committees and groups, to deliver service improvements that increase their effectiveness and efficiency.
- Undertaking research, reviews and audits to inform best practice in respect of committee management, good governance, managing risk, assurance etc.
Skills and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Highly developed communication and engagement skills, oral and written.
- Able to demonstrate effective compassionate leadership and management skills.
- High standard of IT skills and standard key board skills.
- Ability to analyse and interpret complex information sources such as Welsh Government and to provide strategic/ expert advice based on data analysis, often with short timescales.
- Able to write high level and quality complex reports and document;
- Able to formulate and develop long-term, strategic plans based on national information/guidance, which involve uncertainty, and which may impact on the JCC and wider NHS Wales commissioning organisations objectives.
- Develop and review corporate policies and procedures to meet organisational needs or in response to changes to national policy which may need to be analysed and interpreted for local implementation.
- Innovative with strong service focus, with highly developed communication, influencing and negotiating skills.
- Sound judgement to inform robust decision making, when dealing with highly complex facts/information, through the analysis and interpretation of national policy, legislation etc. to provide expert advice to the Chair, Chief Commissioner, JCC etc.
- Able to work with and be guided by general NHS, organisational or broad corporate governance/assurance policies, frameworks etc. with the ability to establish and advise confidently on the way in which these should be interpreted.
- Able to influence and challenge the assumptions of stakeholders and provider organisations, while retaining respect and maintaining credibility.
- Able to sustain concentration for prolonged periods when working to tight deadlines and during periods of heavy workload and pressure; including when writing policy documents, reports, checking papers for Committees etc.
Other Role Requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel to work related meetings within Wales and the UK, when required.
- Flexible approach to work and work hours.
- Frequent requirement for sitting or standing in restricted position for a substantial proportion of the working time.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Welsh language skills need to be learnt when appointed to the post
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Georgina Galletly
- Job title
- Director of Corporate Planning and Strategy
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01443443443
- Additional information
The suitable candidate will have a key role in:
- JCC governance & assurance framework design and development
- Administration and adherence of Standing Orders and Standing Financial Instructions
- Hosted Body (Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board) Arrangements and Scheme of Delegation
- Relationship management with JCC, Sub Committees and Advisory Groups
- Design and provide assurance on the conduct of JCC Business
- Lead and manage Corporate Business and promote JCC culture, values and behaviours at all times
- Deputise for the Director of Corporate Planning and Strategy as required
Should you wish to make informal enquiries, please contact Director of Corporate Planning and Strategy, Georgina (George) Galletly via email [email protected].
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