Employer Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board Employer type NHS Site Joint Commissioning Committee Town Pontypridd Salary £90 £90.00 per full day Salary period Yearly Closing 29/01/2026 23:59
Lay Member
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.
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Join Our Team at NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee (NWJCC)
Position: Lay Member All Wales Independent Patient Funding Request Panel (IPFR)
Do you live in Wales?
Are you a patient, a carer, a retired professional? Are you someone who cares about how decisions are made to fund specialist treatments for Welsh patients?
Do you want to play a key role in helping to ensure the needs and experiences of patients and the public of Wales are fully considered when IPFR decisions are made?
The NWJCC is a joint committee of the seven health boards in Wales, with an Independent Chair and Lay Members. We support collaborative commissioning across Wales, with around 120 staff based in Mold and Nantgarw/Treforest.
Our mission is 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.
The NWJCC is committed to ensuring that public and patient voice is at the centre of shaping our specialist healthcare services and is seeking to appoint two Lay Members to support the All-Wales IPFR Panel.
Main duties of the job
IPFR requests fund NHS healthcare for individual patients who fall outside the range of services and treatments that a health board or NWJCC has agreed to fund and/or to provide routinely. This can include a request for any type of healthcare including a specific service, treatment, medicine, device or piece of equipment.
The IPFR Panel work to the published All Wales IPFR Policy (Making Decisions on Individual Patient Funding Requests) and the NWJCC IPFR Panel Terms of Reference (ToR).
The Lay Members are expected to use their skills and experience to bring independent judgement and experience from a lay perspective and apply this to support IPFR decision making.
Panels are held virtually on a bi-monthly basis via MS Teams with a time commitment of two days per month to prepare for and attending each panel.
If you are interested in this opportunity, in the first instance please contact Andrea Richards, Senior IPFR Manager at NWJCC via email Andrea.Richards2@wales.nhs.uk or mobile 07890 420 385.
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
Lay Member of the NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee (NWJCC)
Accountable to: Chair of the NWJCC IPFR Panel
Term of Office: The Lay Member of the All-Wales IPFR Panel will be appointed for a period of up to three years. They may be re-appointed for a further period of up to one year but may not serve longer than four years in aggregate.
Time commitment: Approximately two days per month.
Liaison with: Members of the of the NWJCC Senior Leadership Team, Officers of NWJCC, Members of the All Wales IPFR Panel, Members of the Joint Committee, Local Health Boards, Llais, and key stakeholders within the community/across Wales.
Role of the Individual Funding Request Panel
The IPFR Panel work to the published All Wales IPFR Policy making decisions on Individual Patient Funding Requests.
The purpose of the Panel as a Sub Committee of NWJCC and hold delegated authority to consider and make decisions on requests to fund NHS healthcare for patients who fall outside the range of services and treatments that a Health Board has agreed to provide routinely.
The role of the Lay Member
Lay Members are members of the public who may also be patients or carers. Lay Member representation brings important views and perspectives into the IPFR Panel decision making process. It is important to ensure that decisions are made with patients at the heart of the process.
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. For more information, see ‘Welsh Language Guidance’ in the documents right at the bottom.
For additional details on this role and its duties, please see recruitment pack and role description and click Apply now on Trac.
Person specification
Knowledge and Experience
* Experience of working in a committee setting. It is also desirable to have experience of working in the NHS or other public sector organisation.
Personal Attributes and Skills
* Ability to work within a defined process, applying agreed criteria consistently and equitably.
* Ability to commit to attend meetings (face-to-face or virtual) and to adequately prepare for meetings.
* Ability to bring a professional and patient centred approach to the Panel.
* Ability to analyse complex information.
* Ability to display objectivity and understand the need for confidentiality.
* Ability to give an independent view on matters relating to the patient and public perspective of funding healthcare treatments and be articulate and able to constructively share views and opinions with other Panel members.
* Have knowledge and understanding of equity and diversity and commitment to applying these principles.
Other Requirements
* Welsh language skills are desirable. All candidates will be expected to display empathy towards the language and demonstrate leadership to strengthen bilingual service provision within the NHS in Wales. A willingness to work towards attaining Welsh Language Level 1 is desirable.
* Candidates must not currently be an NHS employee.
* Candidates must demonstrate willingness to undertake necessary training.
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.
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Name Andrea Richards
Job title Senior IPFR Manager (NWJCC)
Email address Andrea.Richards2@wales.nhs.uk
Telephone number 01443 443443
Should you wish to make any informal enquiries, please contact Andrea Richards, Senior IPFR Manager at NWJCC via email Andrea.Richards2@wales.nhs.uk or mobile 07890 420 385.
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