Job vacancy: Cardiology Clinical Lead, Public Health Wales NHS Trust, Cardiff / Swansea / Wrexham

Job summary

Main area: Cardiology
Grade: NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Contract: Secondment: 2 years (due to funding)
Hours: Part time - 4 sessions per week
Job ref: 028-MD001-0426

Employer: Public Health Wales NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Cardiff / Swansea / Wrexham
Town: Cardiff / Swansea / Wrexham
Salary: £110,240 - £160,951 Will be paid at current salary rate for the secondment
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 23/04/2026 23:59

Cardiology Clinical Lead

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

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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.

Important Note for vacancies offered on a fixed-term or secondment basis.
Individuals who hold permanent (substantive) employment within the NHS may only be appointed via secondment. Approval for a secondment must be obtained from your current line manager prior to submitting an application.

The Agenda for Change Pay Award for 2026/27 is effective from 1^st April 2026.

Please note successful applicants with a start date from 1^st April onwards the salary will be as per the 2026/27 pay award. For further detail the pay circular is available via this link https://www.nhs.wales/files/pc-resources/afc-w-02-2026-pdf-pdf?ts=1773244958086

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

Person specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Qualified healthcare professional with current registration with appropriate body and in good professional standing
• Full UK clinical accreditation and holding a substantive Medical, surgical or Nurse/Clinical Practitioner post in Wales
• Significant experience in the service area
• Enhanced knowledge of the service area within Wales
• Good understanding of clinical governance

Desirable criteria

Relevant Professional Registration

Experience

Essential criteria

• Managing and chairing groups
• Working with key stakeholders
• Recognised lead in the service area

Desirable criteria

• Experience in post-graduate /multidisciplinary education
• UK and international experience working within the service area
• Research experience

Skills

Essential criteria

• Competence in clinical management
• Sound judgment and decision making
• Proven ability to manage complex work and prioritise effectively
• Ability to develop effective working relationships on an individual and multi-disciplinary basis
• Ability to maintain CPD to a high standard
• Proven ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Excellent communication & organisational skills
• Proven leadership abilities
• Ability to demonstrate understanding and application of our workplace values, together with the underpinning behaviours identified for success in this role

Desirable criteria

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

Other

Essential criteria

• Willingness and ability to travel
• Highly motivated
• Ability to work on own initiative
• Ability to work under pressure
• Tactful and diplomatic

Public Health Wales, reserves the right to close this vacancy early. We therefore encourage early applications.

Priority is given to staff awaiting redeployment. We therefore reserve the right to withdraw this advert at any stage.

If you have a disability and have any particular requirements to enable you to participate in the application process, please contact [email protected]

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To ensure your application is given full consideration, we recommend submitting a tailored application that directly addresses the criteria listed in the Person Specification section of the advert, providing clear evidence and examples to demonstrate how you meet each requirement.

Visa Sponsorship Eligibility

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.