Job summary
- Main area
- Planning and Programmes -Commissioning
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 110-AC141-0625
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Unit 1 The Willowford
- Town
- Pontypridd
- Salary
- £30,420 - £37,030 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Planning and Programmes Officer, NWJCC
Band 5
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: Planning and Programmes Officer, 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 Planning and Programmes Officer, NWJCC 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
The post holder will provide project and programme support to the Planning and Programme Management Office (PMO) portfolio to ensure that the programmes and project work streams are planned, documented and managed effectively to assist in their successful delivery.
This will also include responsibility for preparing documentation and tracking project plans and benefits.
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/or Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of a specific area, acquired through undergraduate Diploma or equivalent experience or training, plus further management or knowledge or experience to Degree Level equivalency.
- Project Management qualifications such as Prince 2, Agile or equivalent (or willing to work towards attainment)
- Knowledge of techniques for planning, monitoring and controlling projects.
- Good knowledge of Microsoft Office Packages with the ability to master new IT applications.
Desirable criteria
- ECDL or similar computer experience.
- A recognised Project Management qualification.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of administering programmes and projects.
- Experience of project management.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of recording and monitoring information.
- Experience and understanding of change management.
- Experience of administering projects within a health and/or social care setting.
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.
- Undertake sufficient clinical and supporting activities within to remain a credible clinical advisor.
- Standard keyboard skills.
- Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills.
- Able to demonstrate a focus upon outcomes.
- Motivated, self-starter with an exceptional commitment to the values of NHS Wales and a passion for providing high quality care for patients.
- Articulate with highly developed interpersonal communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to relate to staff at all levels of organisations.
- Excellent leadership, influencing skills and ability to demonstrate professional credibility.
- Capacity to think strategically and take a whole systems approach.
- Inspirational leader who demonstrates the ability to lead and manage change.
- Committed to the continuous development of staff and self.
- Commitment to developing culture of openness and partnership.
- Commitment to improving quality of patient care.
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrate a constructive and creative approach to problem solving.
- Be innovative and responsive to change.
Other role requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to work flexibly and if necessary outside normal office hours.
- Able to travel in a timely manner to locations around the host UHB footprint.
Desirable criteria
- Welsh Speaker (Level 1 - courtesy) or willingness to work towards achieving this level.
- Able to travel across the UK if required.
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
- Deput Director of Planning and Programmes
- 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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