Job summary
We are thrilled to announce an exciting one year secondment (until 31/03/2025) opportunity for a skilled professional to lead the next phase of our Strategic Review of Health Professional Education
Key Responsibilities:
Lead and oversee all aspects of the Strategic Review of education Phase 2, ensuring its successful implementation.
Support the management of the Health Professional Post-Registration Commissioning and Quality Management areas of work.
Collaborate with key stakeholders, including educators, healthcare professionals, and industry experts to gather insights and input.
Develop and manage project plans, timelines, and budgets, ensuring milestones are achieved within scope.
Conduct risk assessments and implement mitigation strategies to ensure project success.
Facilitate effective communication channels between various project stakeholders.
Analyse data and present findings to inform decision-making processes.
Qualifications:
Proven experience as a Project Manager, preferably in healthcare or education-related projects.
Strong understanding of health professional education and industry trends.
Exceptional organizational and leadership skills.
Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities.
Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a dynamic environment.
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is a plus.
Main duties of the job
- Ensure effective arrangements are in place for the delivery of workforce modernisation programmes across primary, community and secondary care in support of A Healthier Wales, NHS Wales National Programmes, Welsh Government priorities, Duty of Quality, NHS Wales in 10+ years .
- Manage a complex set of stakeholder relationships required to deliver changes across education, service, government and private/industry sectors, this will include working with clinicians, director-level managers and private organisations.
- To be a visible leader facilitating and engaging staff and clinicians to contribute to the overall strategic direction of workforce and education improvement/ transformation.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
About us
Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) is the strategic workforce body for NHS Wales with statutory functions that include education and training, workforce planning, workforce development and transformation, leadership and succession planning, and careers. Our purpose is to develop a workforce that delivers excellent care to patients/service users and excellent population health. We are a Special Health Authority working closely with our partners; Social Care Wales, education providers, professional and regulatory bodies and Welsh Government.
HEIW's is committed to developing an internal culture of choice. Our Values reflect our thoughts, feelings and beliefs in how we will, and will not, behave and treat others:
- Respect for All in every contact we have with others,
- Ideas that Improve: Harnessing creativity and continuously innovating, evaluating and improving,
- Together as a Team: Working with colleagues across NHS Wales and with partner organisations.
HEIW received the HPMA Award for Employee Engagement in 2019.
What you can expect:
- a corporate induction and 90 day Welcome itinerary,
- compassionate leadership,
- a meaningful values based performance appraisal process,
- the opportunity to impact upon health and social care services and the lives and wellbeing of the people of Wales.
Many of our colleagues and stakeholders have commented on the buzz and atmosphere we create by working together as "One HEIW Team". Do you want to join that team?
Job description
Job responsibilities
Although this post has been advertised as a fixed term appointment, NHS staff will be offered the appointment as a secondment. If you wish to apply as a secondment opportunity, you must have your line managers approval. This post may be extended or made permanent at the end of the fixed term/secondment period depending on available funding and business needs.
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Although this post has been advertised as a fixed term appointment, NHS staff will be offered the appointment as a secondment. If you wish to apply as a secondment opportunity, you must have your line managers approval. This post may be extended or made permanent at the end of the fixed term/secondment period depending on available funding and business needs.
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
- Educated to Masters Degree level or equivalent experience
- Evidence of continued professional development.
- In depth specialist knowledge of Health Education
Desirable
- Project Management qualification, knowledge and experience
- Active registration with the NMC/HCPC
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience of clinical operational management and managing successful projects at a senior level
- Experience of successful team working
- Effective partnership working with health and care organisations.
- Experience of managing and implementing change
- Experience of effective stakeholder working with senior personnel, regulatory bodies, Higher Education
Other
Essential
- Prepared to travel extensively across Wales and UK where necessary.
Skills
Essential
- Strategic and analytical thinker with diagnostic and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, negotiation, influencing, presentation and facilitation skills to: - create and maintain formal and informal networks, - convey highly complex and contentious information to large groups, - create clear and concise reports for a variety of audiences.
- Ability to understand and utilise complex information and to concentrate on complex matters whilst dealing with unplanned interruptions.
- Excellent keyboard skills and effective IT user
- Ability to work across different organisations and their cultures.
- Highly organised with excellent time management skills and the ability to produce excellent quality work to tight and demanding deadlines.
Desirable
- Welsh Speaker (Level 1) or willingness to work towards
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential
- Educated to Masters Degree level or equivalent experience
- Evidence of continued professional development.
- In depth specialist knowledge of Health Education
Desirable
- Project Management qualification, knowledge and experience
- Active registration with the NMC/HCPC
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience of clinical operational management and managing successful projects at a senior level
- Experience of successful team working
- Effective partnership working with health and care organisations.
- Experience of managing and implementing change
- Experience of effective stakeholder working with senior personnel, regulatory bodies, Higher Education
Other
Essential
- Prepared to travel extensively across Wales and UK where necessary.
Skills
Essential
- Strategic and analytical thinker with diagnostic and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, negotiation, influencing, presentation and facilitation skills to: - create and maintain formal and informal networks, - convey highly complex and contentious information to large groups, - create clear and concise reports for a variety of audiences.
- Ability to understand and utilise complex information and to concentrate on complex matters whilst dealing with unplanned interruptions.
- Excellent keyboard skills and effective IT user
- Ability to work across different organisations and their cultures.
- Highly organised with excellent time management skills and the ability to produce excellent quality work to tight and demanding deadlines.
Desirable
- Welsh Speaker (Level 1) or willingness to work towards
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).
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).
