Welsh Clinical Leadership Fellow

This one-year opportunity provides training and hands-on experience in clinical leadership and management. This opening is available to Dental colleagues DCT2 and above currently working within NHS Wales

Working directly to a Senior Lead along with their teams across NHS Wales and engaging with a wide variety of stakeholders, this role offers a significant career development opportunity for fellows to build networks, help shape national and regional initiatives, whilst supporting the delivery of key programmes of work.

This post is fixed term/secondment for 12 months due to meet the needs of the service. Should you be successful at interview you will be seconded over on your contractual salary

This post is fixed term/secondment for 12 months due to meet the needs of the service

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

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?

The Welsh Clinical Leadership Fellowship (WCLF) programme is a one-year opportunity for medics and dentists (ST3/DCT2 and above), nurses, pharmacists, AHPs, optometrists and healthcare scientists (AfC Band 7 and 8a). The WCLTF programme provides training and hands-on experience in clinical leadership and management.

The Training Fellow will be seconded (please ensure the applicant has the permission of their substantive employer to undertake this secondment) or 12 months fixed-term to the host organisation/department within NHS Wales in which their project is based.

The aim of the scheme is to recruit and develop the most aspiring clinical leaders of the future. As part of the programme, you will undertake a leadership and management project from proposals submitted by healthcare organisations in Wales. Leadership Fellows work closely with senior medical, dental, pharmacy or optometry colleagues and are supported in their host organisations by project supervisors.

There is an academic element of the programme provided by Glyndwr University, and masterclasses throughout the year with the Faulty of Medical Leadership and Management. The programme equips the Leadership Fellows with a range of knowledge, skills and experience required to be credible and influential clinical leaders in a future modern NHS.