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Health Education and Improvement Wales Deputy Director of Nursing, Health Professions and Quality

The closing date is 17 September 2026

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Job summary

Lead today's transformation. Shape tomorrow's NHS Wales workforce.

Are you an accomplished senior healthcare professional with the vision, credibility and determination to transform the NHS Wales workforce?

We are looking for as strategic leader with highly developed communication skills. Someone who can challenge the status quo constructively, turn transformational ideas into action, and support NHS Wales to develop a workforce that is sustainable, adaptable, innovative and focused on the needs of the people of Wales.

This is an exceptional opportunity to join Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) in a highly influential national leadership role. As Deputy Director of Nursing, Health Professions and Quality, you will help shape and drive an ambitious programme of change across nursing, midwifery, allied health professions and healthcare science--delivering demonstrable improvements in quality, safety, efficiency and performance.

This is a broad, high-profile role with significant scope and influence at national level.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Main duties of the job

This is a significant and influential senior leadership role, offering the opportunity to work strategically across NHS Wales and make a lasting contribution to the future shape, sustainability and effectiveness of the healthcare workforce. The role will lead, support and drive major workforce transformation programmes across professions that respond to national priorities and deliver demonstrable value, impact and improvement in quality, safety, efficiency and performance across NHS Wales.

Reporting directly to our Executive Director of Nursing, Health Professions and Quality, you will work at the very heart of national workforce strategy. You will turn policy and strategic ambition into practical action, leading major transformation programmes that respond to the current and future needs of NHS Wales. This is an opportunity to bring together strategy, innovation and delivery in a role with national reach.

Working alongside the Associate Directors of Professions, you will bring together professional expertise, workforce intelligence and innovative thinking to develop new workforce models and ways of working. You will also provide senior operational leadership across the directorate, oversee a complex transformation portfolio and deputise for the Executive Director as required

About us

Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) is the strategic workforce body for NHS Wales with statutory functions that include education and training, workforce planning, workforce development and transformation, leadership and succession planning, and careers. Our purpose is to develop a workforce that delivers excellent care to patients/service users and excellent population health. We are a Special Health Authority working closely with our partners; Social Care Wales, education providers, professional and regulatory bodies and Welsh Government.

HEIW's is committed to developing an internal culture of choice. Our Values reflect our thoughts, feelings and beliefs in how we will, and will not, behave and treat others:

- Respect for All in every contact we have with others,

- Ideas that Improve: Harnessing creativity and continuously innovating, evaluating and improving,

- Together as a Team: Working with colleagues across NHS Wales and with partner organisations.

HEIW received the HPMA Award for Employee Engagement in 2019.

What you can expect:

- a corporate induction and 90 day Welcome itinerary,

- compassionate leadership,

- a meaningful values based performance appraisal process,

- the opportunity to impact upon health and social care services and the lives and wellbeing of the people of Wales.

Many of our colleagues and stakeholders have commented on the buzz and atmosphere we create by working together as "One HEIW Team". Do you want to join that team?

Details

Date posted

04 September 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8d

Salary

£95,773 to £110,448 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

082-NMR002-0926

Job locations

Ty Dysgu

Cefn Coed

Cardiff

CF15 7QQ

United Kingdom

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

Essential

• Masters level qualification within the relevant field, or possess the equivalent experience, skills and knowledge.
• Extensive specialist knowledge over a range of disciplines. E.g. clinical services, information systems, research & development finance and HR services, this will be achieved over a significant period of time in addition to specialist knowledge
• Professional registration with the NMC/HCPC or healthcare science regulatory bodies

Desirable

• Doctorate level qualification

Experience

Essential

• Previous senior management experience
• Knowledge/experience in workforce forecasting/modelling and workforce redesign
• Experience in leading teams successfully at a senior level
• Experience of implementing workforce transformation projects
• Experience of working across organisational boundaries with a range of stakeholders
• Demonstrable experience of identifying, building and maintaining relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders to deliver workforce transformation
• Experience of developing and presenting business cases

Desirable

• Experience of working at a UK level on workforce transformation
• Experience across clinical and/or social care

Skills and Attributes

Essential

• Evidence of analytical reasoning and effective decision-making skills for dealing with complex data
• Highly developed communication skills, written and verbal
• Effective influencing and negotiating skills, including experience of positively influencing senior staff, including clinicians, managers and directors
• Ability to build and develop constructive and effective partnership working relationships
• IT literacy and Standard keyboard skills
• Decisive Thinker
• Evidence of effective leadership skills, team development skills and ability to develop others
• Ability to challenge the status quo to progress workforce transformation
• A commitment to continuing professional development

Other

Essential

• Ability to travel between sites in a timely manner to meet All Wales Service requirements
• Role-models the values and behaviours of the organisation
• A commitment to compassionate leadership and creating a compassionate workplace

Desirable

• Welsh Language Skills are desirable levels 1 to 5 in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing in Welsh

Person Specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

Essential

• Masters level qualification within the relevant field, or possess the equivalent experience, skills and knowledge.
• Extensive specialist knowledge over a range of disciplines. E.g. clinical services, information systems, research & development finance and HR services, this will be achieved over a significant period of time in addition to specialist knowledge
• Professional registration with the NMC/HCPC or healthcare science regulatory bodies

Desirable

• Doctorate level qualification

Experience

Essential

• Previous senior management experience
• Knowledge/experience in workforce forecasting/modelling and workforce redesign
• Experience in leading teams successfully at a senior level
• Experience of implementing workforce transformation projects
• Experience of working across organisational boundaries with a range of stakeholders
• Demonstrable experience of identifying, building and maintaining relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders to deliver workforce transformation
• Experience of developing and presenting business cases

Desirable

• Experience of working at a UK level on workforce transformation
• Experience across clinical and/or social care

Skills and Attributes

Essential

• Evidence of analytical reasoning and effective decision-making skills for dealing with complex data
• Highly developed communication skills, written and verbal
• Effective influencing and negotiating skills, including experience of positively influencing senior staff, including clinicians, managers and directors
• Ability to build and develop constructive and effective partnership working relationships
• IT literacy and Standard keyboard skills
• Decisive Thinker
• Evidence of effective leadership skills, team development skills and ability to develop others
• Ability to challenge the status quo to progress workforce transformation
• A commitment to continuing professional development

Other

Essential

• Ability to travel between sites in a timely manner to meet All Wales Service requirements
• Role-models the values and behaviours of the organisation
• A commitment to compassionate leadership and creating a compassionate workplace

Desirable

• Welsh Language Skills are desirable levels 1 to 5 in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing in Welsh

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Health Education and Improvement Wales

Address

Ty Dysgu

Cefn Coed

Cardiff

CF15 7QQ

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://heiw.nhs.wales/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Health Education and Improvement Wales

Address

Ty Dysgu

Cefn Coed

Cardiff

CF15 7QQ

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://heiw.nhs.wales/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Executive Assistant

Alison Lewis

[email protected]

Details

Date posted

04 September 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8d

Salary

£95,773 to £110,448 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

082-NMR002-0926

Job locations

Ty Dysgu

Cefn Coed

Cardiff

CF15 7QQ

United Kingdom

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