Job summary
- Main area
- Planning and Programmes - Commissioning
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 110-AC159-0625
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Unit 1 The Willowford
- Town
- Pontypridd
- Salary
- £54,550 - £61,412 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Programme Manager, NWJCC
Band 8a
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
Join Our Team at NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee
Position: Programme Manager, NWJCC
Following the establishment of the NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee (NWJCC) on 1st April 2024 and a recent organisational restructure, we are seeking a Programme Administrative Assistant to support our journey as a newly formed organisation.
The NWJCC is a joint committee of the seven health boards in Wales, with a Chair and Lay Members. We support collaborative commissioning across Wales, with around 120 staff based in Mold and Nantgarw/Treforest.
Our mission to be The Centre of Excellence for Collaborative Commissioning, improving health and care outcomes across Wales. We commission around 220 services, from NHS 111 and ambulance services to specialised rare disease services, and mental health, operating a £1.14bn budget.
In this role, you will join a supportive, inclusive team, working with NHS Wales, Welsh Government, and UK provider organisations. We are seeking individuals who reflect our values of respect, trust, collaboration, and excellence—those who put patients and quality at the centre of everything they do.
If you're passionate about improving lives and want to be part of a forward-thinking, ambitious team, we’d love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
Lead a Project Management Office in order to support the organisation in the implementation and further development of the Joint Commissioning Committee (JCC) Foundation Plan, the Integrated Medium Term Plan (IMTP) and Transformation programme.
Act as Programme Manager for a range of JCC Commissioning Programmes and Projects, covering several Health Board areas and being led from within the New Joint Commissioning Committee.
Directly manage a range of programmes and projects which deliver against the JCCs objectives, its foundation plan, and subsequent Integrated Medium Term Plan. These are often system wide programmes of work, which require both leadership and pace, with a particular responsibility around engaging and delivering on various JCC Commissioning Programmes and projects.
Enable the Joint Commissioning Committee (JCC) and the Health Boards that it works on behalf of to meet its ambition for commissioned services for the population of Wales.
Manage a team of staff who are deployed across the organisation, ensuring consistent good quality standards and practice in both project and programme methodology.
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
- First Degree or equivalent, plus postgraduate qualification at Master's Level, with significant experience at senior management level.
- Thorough understanding of the role and purpose of the new organisation.
- Knowledge of WG and HB Values, behaviours, principles and standards of governance.
- Knowledge of NHS, WG and HB strategies, policies and plans including HR policies.
- Current knowledge of best practice gained through personal research.
- Demonstrate extensive knowledge of the strategic issues facing NHS Wales.
- Expert knowledge of strategic healthcare agenda relating to service delivery.
- Knowledge of current strategic direction of NHS Wales, specifically A Healthier Wales Prudent Healthcare and the value-based Healthcare agenda.
- Knowledge of UHB Organisational Strategy, Clinical Service Plan, Annual Plan, IMTP, issues, risks and challenges.
- Good understanding of national strategy and policy.
- Good understanding of the health and social care management environment and its roles and responsibilities.
- Continuous management and personal development.
Desirable criteria
- Prince Practitioner and or Managing Successful Programmes
- Alternate professional and recognised programme and project management qualification.
- Evidence of Leadership Development
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of service improvement, strategic planning, service planning, service change and programme/project management.
- Extensive experience of working at a senior level in a large, complex organisation.
- Track record of introducing service improvement and managing organisational change in a complex clinical environment.
- Significant experience of managing staff and working with staff Trade Unions/staff representatives.
- Significant experience of financial management.
- Involvement in significant management of change projects.
- Experience of communicating with all levels of professional staff and the public.
- Experience of dealing with confidential and sensitive data and appropriate maintenance and storage of records.
- Experience of service innovation development.
- Experience in the management of programmes and projects ideally within healthcare or public sector environment.
- Experience of undertaking sensitive negotiations.
Skills and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Compassionate leader, capable and committed to translating policy and analysis into practical actions.
- Significant Organisational change success and managing difficult/complex change.
- High level of negotiation, interpersonal and communication.
- Innovative with strong service focused approach.
- Ability to think and act strategically and to articulate a clear sense of direction and vision to a wider audience.
- Ability to build effective relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
- Demonstrate leadership skills with an ability to demonstrate a flexible leadership style.
- Commitment and passion for patient focused services with the ability to embed an improvement ethos at all levels across the JCC and host Health Board.
- Ability to contribute to policy and medium term plan development.
- Strong prioritization skills with the ability to manage competing demands.
- High degree of analytical skills.
- High degree of report writing skills.
- Team player with evidence of managing successful teams.
- Track record of achievement in delivering programme/projects.
- Successful initiation and facilitation of strategic partnership working alliances.
- Welsh Speaker (Level 1) or willingness to work towards achieving this level.
Other Role Requirements
Essential criteria
- Show empathy and compassion towards others – a natural disposition to put yourself in someone else’s shoes.
- Sees and treats others as individuals (patient/families/colleagues) and treats people with dignity and respect.
- Shows resilience, adaptability and flexible approach as situations arise and positivity when times are tough.
- Shows respect for others’ views and appreciate others’ inputs and encourage colleagues to display our values.
- Motivated to use initiative to recognise problems and seek solutions whilst understanding the importance of empowering and enabling others (patients, families, colleagues).
- Friendly and helpful disposition, awareness of how our own and other’s behaviours impact on people’s experiences and the organisation’s reputation.
- Willing to seek out learning, give and accept constructive feedback and committed to continuous improvement.
- Ability to travel between sites in a timely manner.
- Flexible approach to needs of the service.
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
- Claire Harding
- Job title
- Deputy Director of Planning
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01443443443
- Additional information
Should you wish to make informal enquiries, please contact via email Claire Harding via email ([email protected]) from Monday to Friday between 09:30 – 16:30.
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