All-Wales Clinical Lead

This national post offers the opportunity for an experienced and dynamic Clinical Lead to join the Cardiac Implementation Network which is part of the Cardiovascular Strategic Network, NHS Wales Performance and Improvement (NHS Wales P&I).
This All-Wales Clinical Lead is required to ensure clinically led delivery of the Cardiac Implementation Network. The post is critical to providing strategic clinical leadership and ensuring effective coordination, governance and quality assurance of service transformation efforts in alignment with the National Clinical Framework Board (NCF) and the deliverables outlined within the Cardiac Implementation Network's annual plan 2025-26 and beyond
This All-Wales Clinical Lead post is integral to achieving a clinically led, joined-up and high-quality approach to service transformation and improvement, ensuring the ambitions of the Cardiac Implementation Network are delivered and sustained.
The postholder will have strategic links to a wide range of stakeholders across the Health and Social Care system in Wales, working with and influencing senior stakeholders in Welsh Government, NHS Wales P&I, clinical, professional and managerial leads across the NHS., · National level clinical leadership to oversee the development and implementation of the Cardiac Implementation Network plans to address regional variation in care delivery.
· The role is crucial to driving and sustaining clinical engagement across multiple provider organisations, ensuring service changes are clinically led, evidence-based, and focused on outcomes.
· The Clinical Lead will play a key role in identifying and addressing barriers to implementation, promoting best practice, and providing expert scrutiny and guidance to ensure timely delivery of national priorities., We are Public Health Wales - the national public health agency in Wales. Our purpose is 'Working together for a healthier Wales'. We exist to help everyone in Wales live longer, healthier, happier lives. Together with our partners, we work to increase healthy life expectancy, improve health and well-being, and reduce inequalities for everyone in Wales, now and for future generations.
Our teams work to prevent disease, protect health, and provide leadership, specialist services and public health expertise. We are the leading source of public health information, research and innovation in Wales. In a world facing complex health challenges, our work has never been so important.
We are guided by our Values, 'Working together, with trust and respect, to make a difference'. We are committed to building an inclusive workplace that values equality and diversity. We welcome applications which represent the rich diversity of the communities we serve and are supportive of flexible working arrangements, including part time roles and job sharing.
To find out more about working for us and the benefits we offer please visit https://phw.nhs.wales/careers/
For guidance on the application process, please visit https://phw.nhs.wales/working-for-us/applicant-information-and-guidance, The Cardiac Implementation Network will support the design of models of care which support high quality, accessible and safe care that meets the needs of the population and supports the delivery of timely safe care in line with national priorities. To this end, the network will actively take forward:
· Primary / Community interface: ensuring options available to clinicians and patients are optimum, via support to the development adoption and implementation of health and care pathways via the Community Health Care Pathway Programme as well as e-advice and guidance.
· Promotion of the implementation of best practice pathways for Improvement resulting in improved waits to access care and outcomes
· Modernising access to diagnostics within the speciality in the context of the creation of regional Diagnostic Hubs and the Community Health Care Pathway Programme as well as and through the lens of OPD transformation.
· Outpatient modernisation with a focus on implementation of PIFU / SOS pathways, virtual and group consultations to support more effective utilisation of capacity, achieve service balance and deliver reduced waiting times for diagnosis of clinical concerns
· Implementation of best practice pathways for elective care. This will include but is not restricted to best practice identified by Strategic Networks, NICE, and national benchmarking / improvement bodies such as GIRFT in areas such as high volume low complexity, and movement of procedures from inpatient to day case.
· Supporting patients whilst waiting via developing waiting well information / guidance as well as signposting patients to further support.
The post holder will have responsibility for clinical leadership, advice and engagement. Key aspects of this role will be to:
· To provide professional and clinical leadership for the Implementation Network
· To provide clinical advice and scrutiny to constituent provider organisations on the activities and required support to deliver the objectives of the Implementation Network.
· To communicate the Implementation Network's focus on quality and outcomes from national through to local level, allowing the local teams to feed ideas and input back to the Network and NHS Wales Performance and Improvement as appropriate.
· To provide leadership for improving and safeguarding quality.
· To prioritise, develop and promote high level national health & care pathways
· To challenge organisations and clinicians around the timely adoption and implementation of best practice that will support elective recovery.
· To support national strategic / policy thinking regarding the speciality in line with National Clinical Framework (NCF)
· Supporting and implementation associated with relevant regional working opportunities that will facilitate more timely care to patients
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, + If you require sponsorship under the Skilled Worker or Health and Care Visa routes, please ensure you self-assess your eligibility for sponsorship for this role before applying.
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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 seeking flexible working arrangements.
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 Trust 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.

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