# Deputy Director of Nursing, Health Professions and Quality > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Health Education and Improvement Wales. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/deputy-director-of-nursing-health-professions-and-quality/01f825fb-3e4b-435c-8d3f-0fa1a8dbeac0 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/deputy-director-of-nursing-health-professions-and-quality/01f825fb-3e4b-435c-8d3f-0fa1a8dbeac0.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Health Education and Improvement Wales - **Location:** Tŷ Dysgu - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Director of nursing - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £95,773 - £110,448 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week (An agile working model to allow flexibility between home and office-based working.) - **Closing date:** 2026-09-17T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-04T12:36:15.353Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Cardiff/Cardiff/Health_Education_Improvement_Wales/Nursing_Midwifery/Nursing_Midwifery-v8258569 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8258569?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://heiw.nhs.wales/ ## Job Content ### Job overview 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 ### Detailed job description and main 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. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. Welsh language skills are desirable ## Person Specification ### 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 ### 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 ### 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 ## Documents - [llyfryn heiw (pdf, 1.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3002) - [heiw brochure (pdf, 1.6mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3001) - [jdps english (docx, 190.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10589876) - [sdmp cymraeg (docx, 186.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10589877) - [privacy notice (pdf, 404.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2352) - [oh form - ig ffurflen (docx, 100.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10589878) - [guidance notes for applicants (pdf, 322.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2847) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.