Clinical Lead - Supervision Guidance for Primary and Community Care

Are you an accomplished professional with a passion for driving transformative change in healthcare? If so, we are currently seeking a dynamic Clinical Lead to work at national level, to support the delivery of the supervision guidance action within the Strategic Workforce plan for Primary Care.

The postholder will work with stakeholders and draw on existing resources, leading on the development of supervision guidance, to support high quality supervision within multi-professional teams. Development of an implementation plan will consider the skills needed for effective supervision.

The successful candidate will collaborate with key stakeholders addressing a key workforce challenge, which will support recruitment, retention, training and performance management. Their expertise will be crucial in improving healthcare processes and driving quality within primary care, contributing to the delivery of national priorities.

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 manager's 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., To lead the supervision guidance action of the Strategic Workforce Plan for Primary Care and acting as the key interface between this action and Multi-Professional Primary and Community Care Education & Training Unit, HEIW.

To translate the strategic actions into goals and initiatives to ensure sustainable implementation and delivery across the healthcare system.

We are looking for a candidate who has successfully managed projects/programmes at a senior level, with experience of transformational change within a complex healthcare environment. You will have excellent communication, negotiation and presentation skills to engage with a wide variety of stakeholders.

The ability to role model the values and behaviours of the organisation and compassionate leadership are key requirements.

If you wish to apply as a secondment opportunity, you must have your line manager's approval prior to applying. This post may be extended or made permanent at the end of the fixed term/secondment period depending on available funding and business needs.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

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?