Job vacancy: Learning Disability Senior Improvement Manager - INTERNAL TO NHS WALES, Public Health Wales NHS Trust, Cardiff/Wrecsam

Job summary

Main area: NHS Executive
Grade: Band 8a
Contract: 12 months (Secondment until 31st March 2026 due to funding)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 028-AC046-0225-A

Employer: Public Health Wales NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: 2 Capital Quarter/Clwydian House
Town: Cardiff/Wrecsam
Salary: £54,550 - £61,412 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 22/04/2025 23:59

Learning Disability Senior Improvement Manager - INTERNAL TO NHS WALES

Band 8a

Welcome to the NHS Wales Executive, a new national support function, operational from 1 April 2023

Our key purpose is to…

Drive improvements in the quality and safety of care - resulting in better and more equitable outcomes, access and patient experience, reduced variation, and improvements in population health.

To find out more visit NHS Wales Executive.

Our values

Working together, with trust and respect, to make a difference

Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English. To support our all Wales service, we particularly welcome applications from Welsh speakers.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please ensure you have line managers support on application.

You will be able to find a full job description and person specification attached within the supporting document or please click 'Apply now' to view in Trac.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Educated to Masters Degree level or equivalent level of experience working at a senior management/ clinical level or Registered Professional Healthcare or Social Care Qualification requiring registration on a Clinical Professional Register (HPC/NMC/CQSW), e.g. Registered Nurse, Allied Health Professional etc.
Evidence of continued professional development
Supplemented with appropriate advanced specialist vocational courses (e.g., PRINCE2, PGCE).
Project/programme management qualification or equivalent experience in leading programme/projects with demonstrable outcomes.
Improvement certification (Improvement in Practice, Lean practitioner level etc.)

Desirable criteria

Training delivery qualification
Coaching qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

Knowledge and expertise of the needs of people with Learning Disabilities.
Significant experience in a senior role including staff management / clinical leadership, ideally within the NHS or Social Care.
Experience of process/problem analysis, challenging existing thinking and generating improvements and solutions
Experience of successfully leading and implementing project driven change management.
Experience of mentoring or coaching teams or individuals

Desirable criteria

Experience of co-production and collaborative working with stakeholders, including those with a lived experience.

Skills

Essential criteria

Ability to work closely with people in other disciplines and form professional working relationships, influencing, negotiation and resolving conflict with regards to change management
Ability to communicate highly complex technical concepts and analysis effectively to different organisations and audiences; including formal presentations e.g. Board level.
Ability to explain and work with concepts of measurement for improvement to a variety of audiences and to provide practical support for teams in developing measures for improvement
Ability to organise, plan and prioritise a diverse range of complex strategic programmes to meet statutory and other deadlines typically involving other disciplines/organisations.
Ability to train multi-disciplinary groups including clinical staff through the delivery of multi-organisational training programmes.
Can demonstrate initiative, creativity, flexibility and a personal ethos of continuous improvement.
Ability to focus, concentrate and accurately complete tasks within given timeframes whilst dealing with unscheduled interruptions e.g., changing priorities.
Ability to manage services across organisations.
Ability to translate strategy into action.
Demonstrable additional specialist knowledge and expertise e.g. advanced presentation and facilitation skills.
Understand the requirements of Information Governance in relation to the NHS.

Desirable criteria

Knowledge of policy priority and direction in Learning Disabilities in Wales
Knowledge of NHS quality improvement agenda and methodologies.

Personal Attributes

Essential criteria

Ability to meet the travel needs of the post. (The post-holder will be required to travel to any location as required by the organisation which may be remote and distant and this may mean frequent overnight stays away from home).
Commitment to principles of change management.
Flexible to meet the needs of the service.

Desirable criteria

Welsh speaking.
Evidence of values akin to working pro-actively with individuals with learning disabilities.

NHS Wales Executive, reserves the right to close this vacancy early. We therefore encourage early applications.

Priority is given to staff awaiting redeployment. We therefore reserve the right to withdraw this advert at any stage.

If you have a disability and have any particular requirements to enable you to participate in the application process, please contact [email protected]

IMPORTANT NOTE FOR APPLICANTS: Applications for our roles are carefully reviewed and shortlisted based on specific criteria, which varies from job to job. Using a generic application to apply for multiple roles or relying on automated AI application services, such as Lazy Apply or AI Apply, may not provide the necessary information, leading to your application being overlooked. To ensure your application is given full consideration, we recommend submitting a tailored application that directly addresses the criteria listed in the Person Specification section of the advert.

If you are successful and short listed for interview you will be contacted by email using the address with which you registered. Please ensure you check your email account regularly.

We are committed to fair, transparent recruitment and believe in equality of opportunity in our workplace and will not tolerate discrimination on grounds of age, disability, gender identity, religion or belief, race or nationality, marriage or civil partnership status, sex, sexual orientation, working pattern, caring responsibilities, trade union activity or political beliefs – or on any other grounds. We welcome applications from individuals who may wish to work part time or apply on a job share basis.

To work in the UK, all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship to obtain either a Health and Care visa or Skilled Worker visa, unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply should self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship by visiting Work in the UK. If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.

The salary scale shown is for a full-time member of staff, with the amount being adjusted pro rata for those working less than 37.5 hours per week.

In general, anyone joining our organisation who has not previously worked in the NHS will, by default, start on the first point of the advertised pay band. Pay progression will then be determined by annual Performance and Development Reviews in accordance with the NHS Wales Pay Progression Policy. An application for Incremental Credit may be considered, but can only be awarded based on evidenced, reckonable service and/or equivalent, relevant experience.