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Main area
Medical
Grade
Executives VSM
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
100-EXEC-MD-0425
Employer
Hywel Dda University Health Board
Employer type
NHS
Site
Ystwyth Building, Hafan Derwen
Town
Carmarthen
Salary
circa £190,00 per annum
Closing
27/04/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Hywel Dda University Health Board logo

Executive Medical Director

Executives VSM

Our Hywel Dda values reflect who we are and how we behave. We continuously work together to be the best we can be as we strive to develop and deliver excellent services, putting people at the heart of everything we do. Throughout our recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you would demonstrate these values in the way that you work with us.

If you are registered Health Care professional considering relocating to the Hywel Dda area in West Wales please don’t hesitate to contact our recruitment campaigns team directly via [email protected]

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Hywel Dda University Health Board reserve the right to close vacancies after 24 hours if a large number of suitable applications are received. We encourage early applications to ensure consideration for a post.


Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.

This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed.

Job overview

Hywel Dda University Health Board is one of seven local Health Boards in Wales, dedicated to providing health services for a population of nearly 400,000 people. Population health is at the forefront of our Healthier Mid and West Wales Strategy that helps us shape healthcare provision. We provide primary, community, mental health, and secondary care services across Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, and Pembrokeshire, and work closely with our neighbouring health boards to ensure the best possible care for people who need to access more specialised services.

As the Executive Medical Director, we will look to you to lead our strategic vision with our medical teams enabling us to further develop these opportunities and drive our ambitions for a healthier, happier population whose wellbeing is at the centre of our thinking.

Main duties of the job

You must be an inspirational, creative and visible leader - a champion for service users and carers.  As an experienced medical leader working corporately at, or close to Board level, you will bring vision and credibility to the role.  You will be comfortable in building relationships with a wide range of stakeholders within our organisation, our wider health system, and our communities. Your passion for professional and clinical leadership will match the drive and enthusiasm of our dedicated and innovative medical workforce. It goes without saying you must also be a General Medical Council registrant.

You will enjoy excellent conditions of employment, whilst building your future in one of the best locations in the UK. West Wales is beautiful, sharing rugged coastlines with misty mountains. Outdoor sports are easy to pursue, whilst the amenities of urban centres such as Swansea and Cardiff are not too far away. The pace of life can be fast or slow, with a diverse range of people sharing an envious work-life balance across the region, with excellent quality schools, and reasonable property prices contribute to low living costs and high quality of life. 

Working for our organisation

We provide our services in partnership with our three local authorities and public, private and third sector colleagues, including our volunteers, through:

Four main hospitals: Bronglais General in Aberystwyth, Glangwili General in Carmarthen, Prince Philip in Llanelli and Withybush General in Haverfordwest.

Five community hospitals: Amman Valley Hospital and Llandovery Hospital in Carmarthenshire,  Tregaron Hospital in Ceredigion and Tenby and South Pembrokeshire Hospital Health and Social Care Resource Centre in Pembrokeshire.

Two integrated care centres (Aberaeron and Cardigan, Ceredigion).

 

Community facilities, including:

48 General Practices (GP surgeries), 49 Dental Practices, 98 Community Pharmacies (chemists), 44 General Ophthalmic Practices (including eye health and low vision services), 38 sites providing mental health and learning disability services, care within your own homes

Highly specialised and tertiary services commissioned by the Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee, a joint committee representing seven health boards across Wales.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

If you think this role is the one for you, and you are the person described above, we’d love to hear from you. The candidate pack with more information about our Health Board and this role is included. If you’d like to talk about the role our Chief Executive, Phil Kloer would be delighted to talk to you.  Please email Phil at [email protected] and an appointment will be arranged.

The closing date for applications is 27/04/2025 and more information about how to apply is included in the candidate pack.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Qualified Medical professional.
  • Unblemished registration with GMC
  • Evidence of continued professional development
  • Post graduate medical qualifications
  • Further evidence of management training and a commitment to ongoing professional development.

Experience and Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Must be or have been a practising GP or worked at Medical Consultant level
  • Clinical Governance
  • Medical Management
  • Significant organisational change experience / managing difficult and complex change
  • A track record of achievement in: Effective performance management / introducing robust systems and processes; and Facilitation of groups
  • Undertaking sensitive negotiations
  • Successful initiation and facilitation of strategic partnership working and alliances
  • A good understanding of the health and social care management environment in Wales and of roles and responsibilities within it.
  • A good understanding of national targets
  • A good understanding of performance management methodology.
  • Developing an organisational culture that promotes clinical engagement in decision making and leading continuous change and improvement in services, encouraging the use of new clinical and service technologies
  • The Safety and standards agenda
  • An understanding of the principles of Public Health Medicine that are relevant to, and underpin the work of the HB.

Abilities and Personal Qualities

Essential criteria
  • Innovative, with strong service focussed approach, exceptional communication, interpersonal, negotiating and influencing skills.
  • Ability to think and act strategically and to articulate a clear sense of direction and vision to a wide audience.
  • Ability to build effective relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
  • Demonstrable leadership and ambassadorial skills with an ability to demonstrate a flexible leadership style
  • Commitment and passion for citizen focused service with the ability to embed such an ethos at all levels of the organisation.
  • High level of; Negotiation Skills / Interpersonal Skills and Communication Skills
  • Ability to contribute to policy development.
  • Decisive leader, capable and committed to translating policy and analysis into practical actions
  • Strong prioritisation skills with the ability to manage competing demands
  • High degree of analytic skills
  • High degree of report writing skills
  • Team player with experience of managing teams
  • Ability to deal with the media

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Veteran AwareNo smoking policyCymraegMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerCarer Confident -Accomplished - WelshStep into healthCarer Confident -AccomplishedDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - GoldCore principlesStonewall 2023 Bronze

Applicant requirements

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.

Welsh language skills are desirable

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Professor Phil Kloer
Job title
Chief Executive
Email address
[email protected]
Additional information

Lisa Gostling

Director of Workforce and Organisational Development / Deputy Chief Executive

[email protected]

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