Employer Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board Employer type NHS Site Keir Hardie Health Park Town Merthyr Tydfil Salary £110,240 - £160,951 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 31/08/2025 23:59
Clinical Director General Medical Services
Clinical Director for GMS
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 from diverse nations, cultures, and backgrounds. Every role counts, every person matters, and together, we’re creating a space where everyone can thrive.
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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
We are seeking an enthusiastic and self-motivated GP to undertake the role of Clinical Director General Medical Services Wellbeing and Health Protection within CTM UHB. This is an exciting opportunity to work with the various members of the Care Group including, other Clinical Directors, and various Primary Care Teams as well as GP independent contractors. The post holder will have a significant role to play in providing visible and effective clinical leadership, supporting the services which fall under WISE (Wellbeing Innovation Service) and Health Protection including Vaccination and Immunisation Programmes. This is a new key and exciting role, supporting the delivery and shaping of wellbeing services within and across the Health Board footprint.
The scope of the role and portfolio within the Care Group may vary and develop over the course of the tenure in discussion and agreement with the Care Group Service Director and Medical Director, in keeping with continuing development of the clinically-led operating model, maximising the benefit of the operating model for our population.
Reporting to the Directorate Manager for GMS and professionally accountable to the Medical Director Primary Care and Communities Care Group.
Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Main duties of the job
The post holder is a member of the Care Group Clinical Leadership team, providing leadership and direction for General Medical services the portfolio, and collaborating with the wider clinical leadership across the health board. The post holder will support the development and delivery of high quality, effective and sustainable clinical services within allocated resources, working closely with other members of the leadership team in relation to operational management, access and delivery targets, service improvement and strategic development.
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
The Clinical Director is responsible for:
* Developing positive working relationships with the Directorate Manager and Lead Clinicians for the Care Group
* The safe, effective and efficient development of delivery of high quality services which promote the Lifestyle Medicine principles with the goal of empowering patients to actively self-manage their health and well-being. The services offer identification of risk factors through health check programs and also offer an opportunity to reduce symptoms and prevent deconditioning during wait times for specialist consultations.
* Support the Directorate Manager for GMS and the Service Manager for Vaccination and Immunisation in the safe, effective development of the vaccination and immunisation programme which is directed by the National Immunisation Framework.
* Ensuring that the principles of prudent healthcare are at the forefront of service planning and delivery.
* Effective and visible clinical leadership, with day to day clinical support of the specialties within the portfolio, engaging with clinical leads and associate clinical service directors within and outside the care group, to include job planning (where appropriate).
* Support the Directorate Managers for Community Services and the wider Primary Care Team to ensure the systems are in place to produce the necessary statistics for reporting purposes.
* Promoting and supporting the Quality Governance agenda including robust incident reporting, concerns management, identification of clinical risks and resource constraints that relate to this.
* Ensuring services developed and directed to provide care that is safe, compassionate, consistently of excellent quality and always improving; in line with our Values and Behaviour and Quality Strategy.
* The professional leadership of all clinical staff within the clinical specialty within the Care Group, the creation of an excellent educational and research environment, the development of new service models to meet changes in demand, and to comply with best practice and national guidelines.
* Contributing to the delivery of required quality and performance standards by using information to support planning, performance and decision making.
* To ensure that satisfactory multi-disciplinary clinical audit takes place and that the outcomes are acted upon and reported into the required forums
* The development of effective working relationships with other relevant specialties in the Care Group and other sites in the interests of patient centred care.
* Providing advice and input to the development of strategic and operational plans for the Care Group including the Integrated Medium Term Plan.
Person specification
Experience
* Significant track record of employment at a senior level in a health related environment.
* Well established medical/clinical practitioners with considerable medical/clinical experience since full registration with appropriate professional body.
* Experience in clinical leadership.
* An understanding of the role of management and clinical contribution to the overall Board agenda.
Qualifications
* Registered with GMC or other relevant Professional Body and with a licence to practice.
* Inclusion in the Wales Medical Performers List
* Evidence of further personal development – education and/or training in leadership and/or management
Skills
* Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues, patients, clinical staff and other agencies. Communicate openly and honestly and explain things clearly.
* Highly resilient with an ability to work effectively under pressure and cope with setbacks; ability to maintain composure and set high standards of behaviour when under pressure.
* Evidence of an enquiring and critical approach to solving work problems. Ability to analyse highly complex facts and use judgement in situations where there is no precedent and creative and original thinking is required.
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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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Sarah Bradley Job title Service Director for GMS Email address sarah.bradley@wales.nhs.uk Telephone number 07969393453 Additional information
Tracey Huggins
Directorate Manager for General Medical Services
tracey.huggins@wales.nhs.uk
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