Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed term / Secondment for 12 months due to maternity cover)
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 082-PST003-0725
- Employer
- Health Education and Improvement Wales
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ty Dysgu
- Town
- Cardiff
- Salary
- £54,550 - £61,412 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Foundation Pharmacist Regional Lead
Band 8a
Job overview
THIS POST IS A SECONDMENT FOR 12 MONTHS MATERNITY COVER
The post holder will work in partnership with education, training and development leads within the workforce and pharmacy employers to ensure consistency, standardisation and quality assurance of foundation pharmacist training programmes throughout Wales. They will be responsible for the regional development and delivery of multi and intra professional education and training and the integration of Health and Social Care within NHS services.
If you are looking for an exciting new challenge to work within an organisation who is committed to innovation, improvement and high-quality education and training, then this job could be for you.
This post is fixed term/secondment for 12 months due to maternity cover. If you are interested in applying for the secondment position, you must obtain permission from your current line manager prior to applying for this post.
Main duties of the job
To be responsible for leading the oversight of foundation pharmacy training for a designated region or number of trainees in Wales. Providing educational and professional support to trainees, supervisors and other relevant stakeholders throughout the training year.
To be responsible for the design, development, review and regional implementation of the HEIW foundation pharmacist onsite and offsite training programme, enabling trainees to work towards foundation training learning outcomes.
To support and implement HEIW quality management processes throughout the training year, ensuring practice is adherent to the HEIW programme accreditation agreement with the regulator.
To engage with local and national stakeholders as part of the annual recruitment cycles for foundation trainee pharmacists, utilising local and national intelligence to lead on the negotiation and securing of placements for a designated region or number of trainees to contribute to the trainee pharmacist and registrant workforce pipeline.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
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.
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.
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?
Person specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Master’s degree or equivalent experience.
- Post-registration experience
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Experience of supervising trainee pharmacists
Desirable criteria
- Engagement with post-graduate (or equivalent) development in education and training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience in their specialist area.
- Substantial postgraduate experience and will have held enhanced responsibility in an educational or healthcare post.
- Experience of working within a multidisciplinary environment, successfully managing staff and teams.
- Experience of strategic planning, operational planning, policy development and implementation
- Experience and/or knowledge of audit, evaluation, research and development.
- Experience /understanding of the external political and social environment, including NHS policy issues and priorities, and the wider agenda of public policy impacting on other relevant agencies.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in an educationally focused environment
- Experience in the design and evaluation of business/ management processes/systems environment
- Experience in writing complex reports for a diverse audience including instances whereby interpretation of related policies is required.
- Significant experience of managing large and complex projects/work streams
- Experience in deploying improvement methodologies to develop services.
Skills and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Ability to assess trainee progression, site and supervisor suitability, through interpretation and analysis of complex qualitative and quantitative data, high attention to detail and use of professional judgement, against the HEIW quality management framework and principles.
- Knowledge of education and training programmes, pharmacist development opportunities and the wider training agenda
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, negotiating and influencing skills with evidence of an approach that is emotionally and politically intelligent
- Ability to use MS Office, paper and other electronic platforms to efficiently manage data relating to foundation pharmacist training.
- Ability to think creatively and strategically and to manage change.
- In depth knowledge of legal frameworks governing: Health and Safety, Employment Law, Freedom of Information, Data Protection etc.
- Demonstrable leadership and influencing skills working autonomously and part of wider team, engaging with both internal and external stakeholders.
- Demonstrable self-motivation and effective time management skills, including prioritisation of conflicting tasks
- Ability to develop and maintain good working relationships with a variety of stakeholders, and to present a variety of data appropriately and sensitively to these groups.
- Welsh Language Skills levels 1 to 5 in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing in Welsh.
Other
Essential criteria
- Role model for pharmacy profession
- Ability to speak Welsh
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Laura Doyle
- Job title
- Head of Undergraduate and Foundation Pharmacists
- Email address
- [email protected]
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