Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the newly established NHS Wales Executive in this new critical senior clinical professional leadership role leading the National Clinical Framework Programme in NHS Wales.
The Welsh Government's long-term strategy, A Healthier Wales, set out a need for Wales to drive changes in health and social care delivery to meet the needs of current and future generations in Wales. The vision also committed to developing a national clinical plan for specialist health services and the National Clinical Framework (NCF) was published in March 2021, setting out a strategic approach to delivering safe and high quality health services which meet the needs of people across Wales.
https://gov.wales/national-clinical-framework-learning-health-and-care-system
Professionally accountable to and working closely with the Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Wales, you will provide expert advice and support concerning system improvement and drive improvements in clinical quality outcomes. You will provide clinical oversight to support quality management systems consistent with the NCF, providing leadership and development for the National Clinical Leads Group and build capability among clinical leaders to help drive improvements in the services provided.
You will be a member of the Executive's Senior Leadership Team, working with colleagues from across the NHS Executive and Welsh Government.
Main duties of the job
- Provide clinical advice on system improvement to the senior leadership team of the NHS Executive
- Work with colleagues both clinical and managerial to build a coherent NHS executive function
- Provide clinical leadership for a visible data to knowledge quality outcomes framework to drive planning and improvement
- Provide leadership and work with colleagues to drive improvement in national clinical audit results across Wales
- Lead across all Strategic Clinical Networks and National Strategic Programmes to ensure laser focus on clinical quality, providing clinical oversight to ensure they support quality management systems consistent with the NCF.
- Provide leadership and group education and development for the National Clinical Leads Group.
- Influence the planning of sustainable services in the future in line with the expectations set out in the NCF
- Build capability among clinical leaders to help drive change in the way services are provided
- Challenge unwarranted clinical and organisational variation at national, regional, health board and clinical team level
- Contribute strategically to improving the quality and value of healthcare services
- Lead, support and promote the dissemination and implementation of best practice and standards across Wales
- Be a source of advice to health service bodies on how clinical leadership should be developed
About us
The NHS Wales Executive (The Executive) is a new, national support function, hosted by Public Health Wales, and directed Welsh Government.
The Executive is an essential element in making the health system in Wales fit for the future and achieving A Healthier Wales vision of a whole-system approach to providing excellent health and social care across Wales. Working on behalf of Welsh Government, The Executive's role in supporting this mission is to provide strong national leadership and strategic direction, enable, support and, where necessary, intervene to ensure the delivery of national priorities and standards, to drive improvements in the quality and safety of care to achieve better, fairer healthcare outcomes for the people of Wales.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The model of delivery for clinical services is one of the most important facets of health service delivery and by bringing clinical communities together, it has been shown that it is possible to develop national consensus on the transformation of specific services. By working in this way, important challenges are identified, the best solutions are developed and the whole system - local and national - pulls in the same direction and shares in the benefits. This approach results in large scale, strategic changes rather than isolated reforms that fail to spread and lead to ever greater unwarranted variation in care.
The National Clinical Framework programme therefore sets out to address some of the strategic clinical challenges facing the NHS including the need to:
- Build its capacity and capability to prevent ill health in order to reduce the demand for healthcare in itself.
- Cope with healthcare need by focusing the finite resources it has on delivering the highest value interventions.
- Shift its emphasis from delivering specialist care in hospitals to delivering primary and community-based services.
- Develop its workforce to meet the future burden of disease and make the most of everyones skills.
- Embrace service reconfiguration at scale and pace to achieve a better balance of highly specialised, specialised and generalised care across its estate.
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; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply
Job description
Job responsibilities
The model of delivery for clinical services is one of the most important facets of health service delivery and by bringing clinical communities together, it has been shown that it is possible to develop national consensus on the transformation of specific services. By working in this way, important challenges are identified, the best solutions are developed and the whole system - local and national - pulls in the same direction and shares in the benefits. This approach results in large scale, strategic changes rather than isolated reforms that fail to spread and lead to ever greater unwarranted variation in care.
The National Clinical Framework programme therefore sets out to address some of the strategic clinical challenges facing the NHS including the need to:
- Build its capacity and capability to prevent ill health in order to reduce the demand for healthcare in itself.
- Cope with healthcare need by focusing the finite resources it has on delivering the highest value interventions.
- Shift its emphasis from delivering specialist care in hospitals to delivering primary and community-based services.
- Develop its workforce to meet the future burden of disease and make the most of everyones skills.
- Embrace service reconfiguration at scale and pace to achieve a better balance of highly specialised, specialised and generalised care across its estate.
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; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level in a relevant medical/scientific/nursing/Allied Health professional discipline
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Senior clinical leadership experience in an NHS organisation ideally Divisional/ Service Group/Associate Director level
- Experienced clinician with credibility and the ability to command the respect of all clinical and non-clinical professionals
- Good understanding of health system dynamics and the reform programme
- Experience and knowledge of evidence based policy making and NHS governance
- Good understanding of how to use data and financial incentives to improve quality and productivity
- Understanding of delivery around major change programmes to transform clinical services.
- Experience of operating in complex, highly political environments
- Experience of developing, applying and reviewing an evidence-based approach to decision making
- Extensive experience of delivering presentations to large groups of stakeholders in often pressured and politically sensitive environments
- Member of a relevant professional body
Skills capabilities and attributes
Essential
- Use of resourcefulness and judgment to navigate and negotiate across the NHS and the wider health, social care and political landscape
- Demonstrable leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills
- Ability to build excellent collaborative networks
- Ability to deal with ambiguity and complexity
- Ability to navigate and negotiate the NHS and the wider health, social care and political landscape.
- Excellent leadership skills and the ability to build and motivate high performing teams
- Highly developed interpersonal skills, negotiation, conflict management, feedback, partnership working, and coaching skills
- Ability to assimilate complex and lengthy information and make decisions in an ambiguous and fast moving environment
- Ability to communicate with stakeholders and the media, and convey complex messages to different recipient groups.
- Demonstrable ability to act upon incomplete information, using experience gained to make inferences and decision making
- Ability to develop effective and mutually supportive relationships with key partners within and without organisations
- Strong intellectual, strategic, and systemic thinking skills, with the ability to think creatively and laterally to achieve outcomes
Values and behaviours
Essential
- Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values of the NHS Executive
- Commitment to and focus on quality, promotes high standards to consistently improve patient outcomes
- Demonstrably involves patients and the public in their work and consistently puts patients at the heart of decision making
- Consistently looks to improve what they do, looks for successful tried and tested ways of working and seeks out innovation
- Values diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness
- Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
- Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
- Actively develops themselves and others
- Demonstrable commitment to focusing on both the mental and physical health of staff and service users
- Demonstrable commitment to partnership working with a range of external organisations
- Considers the most effective way to promote equality of opportunity and good working relationships in employment and service delivery and has the ability to take actions which support and promote this agenda
- Self-awareness in terms of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity and awareness
- Demonstrate collective and compassionate leadership
- Commitment to work/life balance
Equality, diversity and inclusion
Essential
- Commitment to equality of opportunity, focussed on removing barriers to full participation
- Fosters good working relationships and values difference
- Understands the importance of diversity and inclusion in delivering our role in the health and care system
- Complies with the Data Protection Act 2018/General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requirements
- Upholds the Equality Act 2010 and the Public Sector Equality Duty
- Promotes high standards for improving diversity and equality, as per the Workforce Race Equality Standard and Workforce Disability Equality Standard
- Promotes gender equality and closing our Gender Pay Gap
Mobility
Essential
- National travel is required to fulfil this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level in a relevant medical/scientific/nursing/Allied Health professional discipline
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Senior clinical leadership experience in an NHS organisation ideally Divisional/ Service Group/Associate Director level
- Experienced clinician with credibility and the ability to command the respect of all clinical and non-clinical professionals
- Good understanding of health system dynamics and the reform programme
- Experience and knowledge of evidence based policy making and NHS governance
- Good understanding of how to use data and financial incentives to improve quality and productivity
- Understanding of delivery around major change programmes to transform clinical services.
- Experience of operating in complex, highly political environments
- Experience of developing, applying and reviewing an evidence-based approach to decision making
- Extensive experience of delivering presentations to large groups of stakeholders in often pressured and politically sensitive environments
- Member of a relevant professional body
Skills capabilities and attributes
Essential
- Use of resourcefulness and judgment to navigate and negotiate across the NHS and the wider health, social care and political landscape
- Demonstrable leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills
- Ability to build excellent collaborative networks
- Ability to deal with ambiguity and complexity
- Ability to navigate and negotiate the NHS and the wider health, social care and political landscape.
- Excellent leadership skills and the ability to build and motivate high performing teams
- Highly developed interpersonal skills, negotiation, conflict management, feedback, partnership working, and coaching skills
- Ability to assimilate complex and lengthy information and make decisions in an ambiguous and fast moving environment
- Ability to communicate with stakeholders and the media, and convey complex messages to different recipient groups.
- Demonstrable ability to act upon incomplete information, using experience gained to make inferences and decision making
- Ability to develop effective and mutually supportive relationships with key partners within and without organisations
- Strong intellectual, strategic, and systemic thinking skills, with the ability to think creatively and laterally to achieve outcomes
Values and behaviours
Essential
- Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values of the NHS Executive
- Commitment to and focus on quality, promotes high standards to consistently improve patient outcomes
- Demonstrably involves patients and the public in their work and consistently puts patients at the heart of decision making
- Consistently looks to improve what they do, looks for successful tried and tested ways of working and seeks out innovation
- Values diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness
- Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
- Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
- Actively develops themselves and others
- Demonstrable commitment to focusing on both the mental and physical health of staff and service users
- Demonstrable commitment to partnership working with a range of external organisations
- Considers the most effective way to promote equality of opportunity and good working relationships in employment and service delivery and has the ability to take actions which support and promote this agenda
- Self-awareness in terms of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity and awareness
- Demonstrate collective and compassionate leadership
- Commitment to work/life balance
Equality, diversity and inclusion
Essential
- Commitment to equality of opportunity, focussed on removing barriers to full participation
- Fosters good working relationships and values difference
- Understands the importance of diversity and inclusion in delivering our role in the health and care system
- Complies with the Data Protection Act 2018/General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requirements
- Upholds the Equality Act 2010 and the Public Sector Equality Duty
- Promotes high standards for improving diversity and equality, as per the Workforce Race Equality Standard and Workforce Disability Equality Standard
- Promotes gender equality and closing our Gender Pay Gap
Mobility
Essential
- National travel is required to fulfil this role.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
