Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health , Learning Disabilities & Vulnerable Groups
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- 12 months (Secondment for 12 months to cover service needs)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 110-NMR379-0825
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee (NWJCC)
- Town
- Pontypridd
- Salary
- £48,527 - £55,532 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
National Framework Auditor - INTERNAL TO NHS WALES
Band 7
Thank you for your interest in joining Cwm Taf Morgannwg (CTM) University Health Board.
Located in the heart of South Wales, we’re central to Cardiff, Newport, and Swansea. Deeply rooted in our community, as an NHS organisation we are dedicated to providing compassionate patient care and building healthier communities together.
At CTM, you’ll be part of a supportive, inclusive team from diverse nations, cultures, and backgrounds. Every role counts, every person matters, and together, we’re creating a space where everyone can thrive.
Discover more about working with us here:
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Job overview
PLEASE NOTE WE WILL ONLY ACCEPT APPLICATIONS FROM STAFF CURRENTLY EMPLOYED BY NHS WALES
Join Our Team at NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee
This post is offered as a secondment for up to 12 months to cover service needs, please ensure you obtain permission from your current line manager prior to applying for this post. .
· Act as an expert resource within the National Frameworks Team within the Mental Health, Learning Disability & Vulnerable Groups Directorate of the NWJCC.
· Responsible for the quality assurance of provider services collaboratively commissioned via the National Framework Agreements.
· Provide specialist advice for other agencies and professionals regarding the clinical management of individuals presenting with mental health conditions.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will:
· Clinically audit providers of collaboratively commissioned MHLDVG services under the National Framework Agreements.
· Ensure providers reduce risk and promote hope, recovery and rehabilitation.
· Ensure quality and safety concerns about providers are raised, discussed, collated and disseminated by statutory agencies, Local authorities and UHBs.
· Facilitate collaborative working between providers and commissioners to ensure safe and effective care.
· The majority of functions undertaken are proactive performance management or reactive to situations that have arisen. Formal reviews are undertaken with providers, and UHB’s which examine use of collaboratively commissioned services compared to plans and progress towards achieving service quality as set out in the service specification.
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 and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- A Registered Nurse (Mental Health or Learning Disabilities); Clinical/Counselling Psychologist; Social Worker; Occupational Therapist, educated to Master’s degree or equivalent level of experience/knowledge, with evidence of developed knowledge in mental health, learning disability, CAMHS & eating disorder management within the secondary care setting.
- Understanding of the commissioning and provision of health services.
- Evidence of Continued Professional Development.
- Knowledge about relevant Mental Health legislation, regulation, quality monitoring of services and patient safety initiatives across the UK.
Desirable criteria
- Experience in a leadership role.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant experience in inpatient services.
- Relevant experience of healthcare quality improvement.
- Working in a challenging and busy environment.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of performance monitoring.
- Experience of Continuing Health Care.
- Experience in a large and complex organisation.
- Evidence of successfully working in a highly complex environment with a multiplicity of stakeholders.
- Working within a commissioning environment.
- Performance monitoring at national levels.
- Audit and performance monitoring and management.
Skills and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and demonstrable ability to influence at senior levels.
- Ability to articulate the key elements that encapsulate high quality and safe patient care.
- Demonstrate a constructive and creative approach to problem solving.
- Well-developed IT skills.
- Strong clinical audit and performance management skills.
- Able to gain insights and understanding from multiple sources of complex sources.
- Able to demonstrate a focus upon outcomes.
- Articulate with strong communication and presentation skills.
- Leadership and management skills at a team level.
- Demonstrate highly effective verbal and written communication skills.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to demonstrate clinical and professional credibility.
- Innovative and responsive to change.
Other Role Requirements
Essential criteria
- Motivated, self-starter with a commitment to the values of NHS Wales.
- Passion for providing high quality care for patients.
- Ability to relate to staff at all levels of the NWJCC and external organisations.
- Able to travel across the UK in a timely manner.
- Ability to work flexibly if necessary.
- Enhanced DBS Check
- Committed to the continuous development of staff and self.
- Commitment to developing culture of openness and partnership.
- Commitment to improving quality of patient care.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Debra Hillman
- Job title
- National Framework Audit Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01443 443112
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