Job Description

Following the establishment of the NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee (NWJCC) on 1st April 2024 and a recent organisational restructure, we are seeking a Deputy Director of Planning & Programmes, NWJCC to support our journey as a newly formed organisation.
The NWJCC is a joint committee of the seven health boards in Wales, with a Chair and Lay Members. We support collaborative commissioning across Wales, with around 120 staff based in Mold and Nantgarw/Treforest.
Our mission to be The Centre of Excellence for Collaborative Commissioning, improving health and care outcomes across Wales. We commission around 220 services, from NHS 111 and ambulance services to specialised rare disease services, and mental health, operating a xc2xa31.14bn budget.
In this role, you will join a supportive, inclusive team, working with NHS Wales, Welsh Government, and UK provider organisations. We are seeking individuals who reflect our values of respect, trust, collaboration, and excellence--those who put patients and quality at the centre of everything they do.
If you're passionate about improving lives and want to be part of a forward-thinking, ambitious team, we'd love to hear from you.
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
Developing plans for the NWJCC (NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee) including the IMTP.
Ensuring appropriate oversight and monitoring of delivery of agreed plans, programmes and projects, providing assurance in this regard to the Joint Committee, Sub-Committees and other stakeholders as required.
Ensuring effective Programme and Project Management arrangements for key areas of transformation that the NWJCC has been identified to lead across NHS Wales.
Interpret, advise the NWJCC and ensure compliance with national, regional and local planning policy and service change.
About us
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Details
Date posted
29 May 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8d
Salary
xc2xa389,491 to xc2xa3103,203 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
110-AC132-0525
Job locations
Unit G1 The Willowford
Treforest industrial Estate
Pontypridd
CF37 5YL
Job description
Job 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. Job description
Job 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.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential

• Educated to Masters level or relevant equivalent specialist experience.
• Specialist knowledge of planning, commissioning, policy, redesign and implementation across a broad range of areas including primary, community and secondary care health services, mental health, social care and local government services.
• Formal project management qualification e.g. Managing Successful Change, Prince 2 or equivalent formal programme management training.
• Mentoring/Coaching qualification or equivalent experience.
• Evidence of continuing professional and managerial development.

Experience
Essential

• Possess significant experience at a national level including policy experience.
• In-depth experience of working across multiple organisations and disciplines, leading and developing services at a local level and national level, working across multiple organisations.
• Significant experience of transformation, change management and quality improvement in a complex environment.
• Proven experience of planning, policy and development at senior level.
• Experience of large-scale budgetary management with prudent negotiation and commercial skills.
• Experience and knowledge of public and patient involvement to influence service development.
• Evidence of delivering on ideas and concepts.
• Experience of delivering financial and quality benefits in change management.
• Experience of managing staff at a range of levels.
• Significant experience in Commissioning Services.
• Significant experience of dealing with a variety of people and range of professionals in an appropriate manner, including frontline teams, the public and clinical professionals
• Significant strategic planning evidence and translation into delivery.
• Significant evidence of applying programme and project management approach to deliver change successfully.
• Experience of producing high quality system business cases and high quality system implementation plans, including but not limited to implementing provider collaborative programmes.

Skills and Attributes
Essential

• Welsh Speaker (Level 1) or willingness to work towards achieving this level.
• Proven ability to interpret strategic decisions, national and local policies and implement change appropriately.
• Proven ability to interpret strategic decisions, national and local policies and implement change appropriately.
• Ability to analyse both strategic and operational issues and provide positive and innovative solutions
• Ability to analyse both strategic and operational issues and provide positive and innovative solutions
• Able to make politically sensitive decisions based on complex interplay of quality outcomes, value for money, relationship management and competing priorities.
• Provide advice and guidance with tact and sensitivity; Staff Coaching skills.
• Approachable and supportive with a commitment to developing people.
• Politically astute and emotionally self-aware - the post will require significant, frequent periods of intense concentration to deliver against a highly complex and diverse portfolio
• Politically astute and emotionally self-aware - the post will require significant, frequent periods of intense concentration to deliver against a highly complex and diverse portfolio
• A high degree of judgement to make sound decisions, when all the information may not be available, in a highly charged situation.
• Ability to interpret complex written, statistical and numerical data and synthesise from different sources.
• Ability to translate complex concepts and themes and interpret for different audiences adapting style of delivery accordingly.

Other Role Requirements
Essential

• Commitment to equality and a desire to build a talented and diverse team.
• Responsive to change and ideas; adapt to new systems; flexible working pattern.
• Decisive but sensitive and diplomatic.
• Work closely with team members and external parties to review patient care and make recommendations for improved service delivery.
• Prioritises collaboration and effective relationships across a mature partnership.
• Ability to travel within geographical area in a timely manner.
• Able to work hours flexibly.

Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential

• Educated to Masters level or relevant equivalent specialist experience.
• Specialist knowledge of planning, commissioning, policy, redesign and implementation across a broad range of areas including primary, community and secondary care health services, mental health, social care and local government services.
• Formal project management qualification e.g. Managing Successful Change, Prince 2 or equivalent formal programme management training.
• Mentoring/Coaching qualification or equivalent experience.
• Evidence of continuing professional and managerial development.

Experience
Essential

• Possess significant experience at a national level including policy experience.
• In-depth experience of working across multiple organisations and disciplines, leading and developing services at a local level and national level, working across multiple organisations.
• Significant experience of transformation, change management and quality improvement in a complex environment.
• Proven experience of planning, policy and development at senior level.
• Experience of large-scale budgetary management with prudent negotiation and commercial skills.
• Experience and knowledge of public and patient involvement to influence service development.
• Evidence of delivering on ideas and concepts.
• Experience of delivering financial and quality benefits in change management.
• Experience of managing staff at a range of levels.
• Significant experience in Commissioning Services.
• Significant experience of dealing with a variety of people and range of professionals in an appropriate manner, including frontline teams, the public and clinical professionals
• Significant strategic planning evidence and translation into delivery.
• Significant evidence of applying programme and project management approach to deliver change successfully.
• Experience of producing high quality system business cases and high quality system implementation plans, including but not limited to implementing provider collaborative programmes.

Skills and Attributes
Essential

• Welsh Speaker (Level 1) or willingness to work towards achieving this level.
• Proven ability to interpret strategic decisions, national and local policies and implement change appropriately.
• Proven ability to interpret strategic decisions, national and local policies and implement change appropriately.
• Ability to analyse both strategic and operational issues and provide positive and innovative solutions
• Ability to analyse both strategic and operational issues and provide positive and innovative solutions
• Able to make politically sensitive decisions based on complex interplay of quality outcomes, value for money, relationship management and competing priorities.
• Provide advice and guidance with tact and sensitivity; Staff Coaching skills.
• Approachable and supportive with a commitment to developing people.
• Politically astute and emotionally self-aware - the post will require significant, frequent periods of intense concentration to deliver against a highly complex and diverse portfolio
• Politically astute and emotionally self-aware - the post will require significant, frequent periods of intense concentration to deliver against a highly complex and diverse portfolio
• A high degree of judgement to make sound decisions, when all the information may not be available, in a highly charged situation.
• Ability to interpret complex written, statistical and numerical data and synthesise from different sources.
• Ability to translate complex concepts and themes and interpret for different audiences adapting style of delivery accordingly.

Other Role Requirements
Essential

• Commitment to equality and a desire to build a talented and diverse team.
• Responsive to change and ideas; adapt to new systems; flexible working pattern.
• Decisive but sensitive and diplomatic.
• Work closely with team members and external parties to review patient care and make recommendations for improved service delivery.
• Prioritises collaboration and effective relationships across a mature partnership.
• Ability to travel within geographical area in a timely manner.
• Able to work hours flexibly.