Role Overview
This is a new role in the CTM Clinical Learning Academy. Open to applications from registered health care professionals, the postholder will be a key member of a senior management team, ensuring robust education systems and processes through planning, design, implementation, and continuous monitoring and management of the Education Quality Systems and Governance for the CTM Clinical Learning Academy.
They will ensure clinical educational activity across CTMUHB meets the appropriate requirements set out by Health Care Professional regulatory bodies, Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW), Higher Education Institutes (HEIs), and Welsh Government, embedding the Duty of Quality Health and Care Quality Standards (2023).
Responsibilities
The post holder will be responsible for:
- Educational governance and safety, educational audit, education quality, and effectiveness, and continuous quality improvement to ensure that CTMCLA educational services are designed to provide maximum value and impact to improve the health of the population of Cwm Taf Morgannwg UHB.
- Providing strategic and operational registered health care professional specialist knowledge, ensuring that learning and development of the workforce aligns to current and future workforce needs.
- Influencing the development of innovative educational and learning practice that results in service improvement.
- Maintaining and enhancing all aspects of quality relevant to the education and development of clinical healthcare professionals while embedding continuous improvement and ensuring effective and efficient management of human, financial, and physical resources.
- Promoting quality within education and development using modern methods of quality management and ensuring quality and process control are central to effective services.
- Developing and ensuring quality management systems for:
- Compliance with legislation and regulation.
- Clinical Governance implications for education.
- Clear and measurable quality objectives aligned with the CTMCLA purpose.
- Identification of trends and sharing learning from student, learner, and educator experience.
- Tracking and monitoring performance and identifying actions for improvement.
- Ensuring actions for improvement are completed, including delivery of actions within action plans following service inspections.
- Ensuring impact upon quality is captured in relation to education planning and organisational change.
- Management of health and safety issues impacting on CTMCLA.
- Capture of effectiveness, value, and impact of CTMCLA service.
- Advanced practice and independent prescribing assurance processes.
About CTM and the Region
Cwm Taf Morgannwg (CTM) University Health Board, part of NHS Wales, serves a large population across a diverse region. With nearly 13,500 staff, our health board is one of Wales’s largest employers. We operate three District General hospitals, several community hospitals, primary and community care facilities.
CTM’s location offers the best of South Wales, just 20 minutes from Cardiff, the Brecon Beacons, and the serene coastline at Ogmore, providing an ideal setting for both work and personal life.
Values and Benefits
CTM employees enjoy benefits including a leading pension, generous leave, flexible work, career growth, and access to ongoing learning and development. Our values guide us daily:
- We listen, learn, and improve.
- We treat everyone with respect.
- We work together as one team.
Contact
For further details / informal visits contact: Becky Gammon, Deputy Director of Nursing, Email: becky.gammon@wales.nhs.uk. Richard Hughes, Executive Director of Nursing, Midwifery & Patient Care. Via Sian Herbert, Executive Assistant, email: sian.herbert@wales.nhs.uk or 01443 744864.
