Main area Nursing and Quality Grade Band 8c Contract Permanent Hours 37.5 hours per week (Full time - 37.5 hours per week) Job ref 110-NMR325-0725
Employer Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board Employer type NHS Site Unit G1 The Willowford Town Pontypridd Salary £78,120 - £90,013 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 31/07/2025 23:59
Assistant Director of Nursing and Quality
Band 8c
Thank you for your interest in joining Cwm Taf Morgannwg (CTM) University Health Board.
Located in the heart of South Wales, we’re central to Cardiff, Newport, and Swansea. Deeply rooted in our community, as an NHS organisation we are dedicated to providing compassionate patient care and building healthier communities together.
At CTM, you’ll be part of a supportive, inclusive team of over 14,500 people from diverse nations, cultures, and backgrounds. As a family-friendly employer, we’re committed to promoting flexibility and are happy to discuss flexible working options.
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The salary scale above has been agreed as part of the NHS Agenda for Change pay award for 2025/2026 and will be implemented in August 2025 with arrears backdated to 1st April 2025 where applicable.
Job overview
Following the establishment of the NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee (NWJCC) on 1st April 2024 and a recent organisational restructure, we are seeking a Corporate Business Support Officer 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 strategic, clinical and operational leadership and management to the Nursing and Quality Directorate by ensuring delivery of quality commissioned services to Welsh populace. The individual will lead and contribute to service strategies and performance, service improvement and oversight within the NWJCC.
This role will be accountable to the Director of Nursing & Quality Commissioning for their performance and provide expert professional advice to the Director of Nursing in line with the Duty of Quality Act.
Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn’t mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing and selecting candidates. This isn’t ‘fluency’, just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health.
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
· Be accountable for the leadership and line management of the nursing & quality team.
· Lead and work collaboratively with the other directorates in the development of commissioning strategies and plans for the NWJCC.
· Provide highly complex, expert and specialist advice to the Director of Nursing & Quality on service strategy and planning, performance, commissioning, delivery and clinical models of commissioned services.
· Deputise for the Director of Nursing & Quality as required in relation to the delegated portfolio.
· Represent the Directorate on a day-to-day basis, leading and supporting the development of a culture of clinical excellence and focus within the commissioning function, and demonstrate good organisational ability, leadership skills, and communication skills.
· Work with stakeholders/providers, commissioning Health Boards/Trusts, Welsh Government and NHS Wales’s officials as appropriate to contribute to the development of policies, strategies and plans that have quality improvement, patient and population and Prudent Care principles at their heart and in line with the Duty of Quality Act.
Person specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
* Nursing qualification and be a on the Nursing & Midwifery Council register. Educated to Master’s Level or equivalent level of experience/ knowledge, with evidence of developed knowledge and experience in commissioning.
* In depth professional knowledge in a number of disciplines, e.g. quality assurance, financial management, performance management, information systems, staff management acquired through training and experience over extended period.
* Detailed understanding of services within the delegated portfolio
* Knowledge of relevant legislation, regulation, quality monitoring of services and patient safety initiatives.
* Detailed understanding of the commissioning and provision of health services.
* Evidence of continuous professional development.
Experience
* Significant relevant experience at senior level in a large and complex organisation.
* Evidence of successfully working in a highly complex environment with a multiplicity of stakeholders.
* Working within a commissioning environment.
* Performance monitoring at national levels.
* Contract and performance monitoring and management.
* Change management and transformation.
* Working in a challenging and busy environment.
* Experience of working within Commissioning in Wales.
* Experience of managing teams through organisational change.
Skills and Attributes
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and demonstrable ability to influence at senior levels, and manage and resolve conflict.
* Demonstrate a constructive and creative approach to problem solving.
* Able to work autonomously, confident as a subject matter expert.
* Ability to articulate the key elements that encapsulate high quality and safe patient care.
* Strong influencing and negotiating skills with the ability to work within complex governance systems where potential conflicts of interest exist and where conflicting data or perspectives exist.
* Be able gain insights and understanding from multiple sources of complex and potentially conflicting sources.
* Able to demonstrate a focus upon outcomes.
* Committed to the continuous development of staff and themselves.
* Commitment to developing culture of openness and partnership.
* Commitment to improving quality of patient care.
* Evidence of self-awareness. Creative thinker.
* Welsh Language Speaking/Listening Skills at Level 3/B2 or Above
Other Role Requirements
* Motivated, self-starter with a commitment to the values of NHS Wales and a passion for providing high quality care for patients.
* Articulate with strong communication and presentation skills.
* Strong leadership and management skills at a team, organisational and partnership level.
* Ability to relate to staff at all levels of the NWJCC and external organisations.
* Able to travel across Wales in a timely manner.
* Ability to work flexibly if necessary.
We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome applications from individuals within protected groups as outlined in the Equality Act 2010. This includes, but is not limited to, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity, and marriage and civil partnership. We also warmly welcome applications from members of the Armed Forces community.
Applicants who are not UK or Republic of Ireland nationals will require sponsorship to obtain either a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa unless they already hold permission to work via another route. Prospective applicants should self-assess their eligibility for sponsorship by visiting the UK Government’s Work in the UK guidance. For eligible candidates, the Health and Care Visa offers reduced application costs and exempts payment of the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.
Please ensure you check your email regularly, as all recruitment correspondence will be sent to the email address provided on your application form.
Applications are welcome in either Welsh or English, with no preference given to the language used.
We reserve the right to close a vacancy early or withdraw an advertisement to accommodate the redeployment of internal staff into suitable roles.
All posts are subject to relevant checks, including a Disclosure and Barring Service check and, where required, Professional Registration verification.
We are proud to be a Living Wage Employer.
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Should you wish to arrange an informal chat, please contact Dawnn Lubin, Workforce Transition Manager via email [emailprotected] .
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