The Programme Director of Continuing Health Care and Funded Nursing Care is responsible for leading the strategic transformation agenda across the Care Group for Primary Care and Community to deliver high-quality, integrated services that meet the needs of patients and the community.
The post holder will have delegated senior lead reporting to the Executive Director of Nursing for Continuing NHS Healthcare (CHC) across the Health Board, ensuring:
- Robust governance and oversight
- Full compliance with the National Framework for CHC
- High-quality, person-centred care
- Effective financial stewardship and value-based commissioning
- Clear and consistent reporting and assurance to the Board
The role will act as the senior operational and strategic lead for CHC on behalf of the Executive Director of Nursing, leading system-wide improvement in partnership with Local Authorities and Regional Partnership Boards (RPBs), ensuring alignment with Welsh Government expectations for urgent improvement and national consistency.
The post holder will ensure the Health Board can provide clear assurance on CHC governance, quality, performance and financial risk, supported by robust data, audit and continuous improvement processes.
Visionary leadership for the Care Group transformation agenda, ensuring alignment with national healthcare policies, including the CHC National Framework and National Commissioning Framework
Lead the development and delivery of a Health Board wide CHC strategy and improvement plan aligned with National priorities and the emerging national CHC improvement programme
Ensure all CHC governance risk and performance information is synthesised into clear assurance reporting to the Executive Director of Nursing, including escalation of risks, compliance issues and financial pressures
Work collaboratively with other Directors in the development and delivery of a robust Development Plan, identifying current and future service and transformational needs to deliver integrated care. This will require extensive and ongoing research into the approach taken in other areas
Lead on the design, development, and delivery of complex transformation programmes, including clinical service redesign, digital transformation, workforce optimisation and CHC pathway redesign
Responsible for providing strategic overview, leadership and transformational change to enable the effective integration of services. Lead and facilitate the resolution of strategic issues and interdependencies and provide flexible targeted delivery support to the organisation to deliver the Transformation & Improvement priorities.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg (CTM) University Health Board, part of NHS Wales, serves a large population across a diverse and beautiful region, steeped in history and heritage. With nearly 13,500 staff, our health board is one of Wales’s largest employers.
Together, we are Team CTM; a workforce dedicated to offering excellent patient care and support to the 450,000 people across our three regions, Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf. We operate three District General hospitals, several community hospitals, primary and community care facilities.
CTM’s location offers the best of South Wales, just 20 minutes from Cardiff’s vibrant city life, the natural beauty of the Brecon Beacons, and the serene coastline at Ogmore. Whether you enjoy lively urban amenities, peaceful countryside, or seaside escapes, our location makes an ideal setting for both work and personal life.
Our CTM 2030 Strategy—Our Health, Our Future—focuses on uniting our region around shared health and wellbeing goals. Our values guide us daily:
- We listen, learn, and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We work together as one team
CTM employees enjoy benefits including; a leading pension, generous leave, flexible work, career growth, and access to ongoing learning and development.
At CTM, you’ll find a welcoming, team-oriented workplace that values diversity and compassion, where you can take pride in your work and the difference it makes.
This post is secondment/fixed term for 6 months due to funding and the nature of the project. In the interests of supporting NHS employees to maintain continuous employment, anyone wishing to apply for the post who is already employed within NHS may be offered the appointment as a secondment. Therefore, please seek approval from your Line Manager to be released for a secondment, before applying.
Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn’t mean essential ; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing candidates. This isn’t ‘fluency’, just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health.
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.
