Permanent, full time, 37.5 hours per week
NHS Agenda for Change Pay Band 9 - £106,967 - £123,091
Health Education & Improvement Wales, Ty Dysgu, Nantgarw, Cardiff, CF15 7QQ
An agile working model to allow flexibility between home and office-based working.
Closing date: 26th May 2025
Assessment centre – week commencing 9th June 2025
Interview date – 17th June 2025
Job Overview
Are you ready to play a leading role in transforming the pharmacy profession for generations to come?
This is a unique opportunity to join Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) as Pharmacy Dean, a nationally significant leadership role at the heart of healthcare education and workforce transformation in Wales. With a focus on strategic innovation, system-wide collaboration, and measurable impact, this post offers the chance to shape the future of pharmacy education, policy, and practice—not just in Wales, but across the UK.
As Pharmacy Dean, you will lead the development of a world-class pharmacy workforce equipped to meet the evolving needs of patients, communities, and the NHS. You’ll provide visionary leadership for the Pharmacy Deanery, working alongside senior healthcare leaders and policymakers to implement sustainable and forward-thinking education strategies.
From shaping national policy and driving multi-professional working, to embedding digital innovation and championing quality in education, this is a role for a trailblazer—someone who can see the big picture and bring people together to deliver real and lasting change.
This is more than a job. It’s your opportunity to lead with purpose, influence the future, and make a meaningful impact on health outcomes across Wales.
Main Duties of the job
• Leading the development and implementation of a high-impact pharmacy workforce strategy for Wales.
• Overseeing the commissioning, quality assurance, and continuous improvement of pharmacy education and training.
• Managing a team of approximately 50 staff and leading a group of senior professional pharmacy leaders.
• Representing HEIW on national forums, shaping UK-wide pharmacy education and workforce policy.
• Driving multi-professional collaboration and digital innovation in pharmacy education.
• Ensuring alignment with the HEIW Integrated Medium-Term Plan and the national Workforce Strategy for Health and Social Care.
• Monitoring performance, budgets, and governance across a wide-ranging portfolio of education and workforce initiatives.
Working for Health Education and Improvement Wales
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.
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?
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Deon Fferylliaeth
Parhaol, llawnamser, 37.5 awr yr wythnos
Band Cyflog 9 Agenda ar gyfer Newid y GIG - £106,967 - £123,091
Addysg a Gwella Iechyd Cymru, Ty Dysgu, Nantgarw, Caerdydd, CF15 7QQ
Model gweithio ystwyth i ganiatáu hyblygrwydd rhwng gweithio gartref a gweithio yn y swyddfa
Dyddiad Cau: 26ain o Fai 2025
Canolfan asesu – wythnos yn dechrau 9fed o Fehefin 2025
Dyddiad cyfweliad – 17eg o Fehefin 2025
Trosolwg o'r Swydd
Ydych chi'n barod i chwarae rhan flaenllaw wrth drawsnewid y proffesiwn fferylliaeth ar gyfer cenedlaethau i ddod?
Mae hwn yn gyfle unigryw i ymuno ag Addysg a Gwella Iechyd Cymru fel Deon Fferylliaeth, rôl arwain o arwyddocaol yn genedlaethol sydd wrth wraidd addysg gofal iechyd a thrawsnewid y gweithlu yng Nghymru. Gyda ffocws ar arloesi strategol, cydweithredu ar draws y system, ac effaith fesuradwy, mae'r swydd hon yn cynnig cyfle i lunio dyfodol addysg, polisi ac ymarfer fferylliaeth - nid yn unig yng Nghymru, ond ledled y DU.
Fel Deon Fferylliaeth, byddwch yn arwain datblygiad gweithlu fferylliaeth o'r radd flaenaf wedi'i gyfarparu i ddiwallu anghenion esblygol cleifion, cymunedau, a'r GIG. Byddwch yn darparu arweinyddiaeth weledigaethol i'r Ddeoniaeth Fferylliaeth, gan weithio ochr yn ochr ag uwch arweinwyr gofal iechyd a llunwyr polisi i weithredu strategaethau addysg gynaliadwy a blaengar.
O lunio polisi cenedlaethol a gyrru gwaith aml-broffesiynol, i ymgorffori arloesedd digidol a hyrwyddo ansawdd mewn addysg, mae hon yn rôl i arloeswr - rhywun sy'n gallu gweld y darlun mawr a dod â phobl at ei gilydd i gyflawni newid go iawn a pharhaol.
Mae hyn yn fwy na swydd. Dyma'ch cyfle i arwain gyda phwrpas, dylanwadu ar y dyfodol, a chael effaith ystyrlon ar ganlyniadau iechyd ledled Cymru.
Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd
• Arwain y gwaith o ddatblygu a gweithredu strategaeth gweithlu fferylliaeth effaith uchel ar gyfer Cymru.
• Goruchwylio comisiynu, sicrhau ansawdd, a gwella addysg a hyfforddiant fferylliaeth yn barhaus.
• Rheoli tîm o oddeutu 50 o staff ac arwain grŵp o uwch arweinwyr fferylliaeth broffesiynol.
• Cynrychioli AaGIC ar fforymau cenedlaethol, gan lunio addysg fferylliaeth ledled y DU a pholisi gweithlu.
• Gyrru cydweithredu aml-broffesiynol ac arloesi digidol mewn addysg fferylliaeth.
• Sicrhau aliniad â Chynllun Tymor Canolig Integredig AaGIC a'r Strategaeth Gweithlu cenedlaethol ar gyfer Iechyd a Gofal Cymdeithasol.
• Monitro perfformiad, cyllidebau a llywodraethu ar draws portffolio eang o fentrau addysg a gweithlu.
Gweithio i Addysg a Gwella Iechyd Cymru
Addysg a Gwella Iechyd Cymru (AaGIC) yw'r corff gweithlu strategol ar gyfer GIG Cymru sydd â swyddogaethau statudol sy'n cynnwys addysg a hyfforddiant, cynllunio'r gweithlu, datblygu a thrawsnewid y gweithlu, arweinyddiaeth a chynllunio olyniaeth, a gyrfaoedd. Ein diben yw datblygu gweithlu sy'n darparu gofal rhagorol i gleifion/defnyddwyr gwasanaethau ac iechyd rhagorol yn y boblogaeth. Rydym yn Awdurdod Iechyd Arbennig sy'n gweithio'n agos gyda'n partneriaid; Gofal Cymdeithasol Cymru, darparwyr addysg, cyrff proffesiynol a rheoleiddiol a Llywodraeth Cymru.
Mae AaGIC wedi ymrwymo i ddatblygu diwylliant mewnol o ddewis. Mae ein Gwerthoedd yn adlewyrchu ein meddyliau, ein teimladau a'n credoau o ran sut y byddwn, ac na fyddwn, yn ymddwyn ac yn trin eraill:
- Parch i Bawb ym mhob cyswllt sydd gennym ag eraill,
- Syniadau sy'n Gwella: Harneisio creadigrwydd ac arloesi, gwerthuso a gwella'n barhaus,
- Gyda'n Gilydd fel Tîm
Derbyniodd AaGIC Wobr HPMA ar gyfer Ymgysylltu â Gweithwyr yn 2019.
Yr hyn y gallwch ei ddisgwyl:
- cyfnod ymsefydlu corfforaethol ag amserlen Croeso 90 diwrnod,
- arweinyddiaeth dosturiol,
- proses arfarnu perfformiad ystyrlon sy'n seiliedig ar werthoedd,
- y cyfle i effeithio ar wasanaethau iechyd a gofal cymdeithasol a bywydau a lles pobl Cymru.
Mae llawer o'n cydweithwyr a'n rhanddeiliaid wedi gwneud sylwadau ar y cyffro a'r awyrgylch a olygwn drwy gydweithio fel 'Un Tîm AaGIC'. Ydych chi am ymuno â'r tîm hwnnw?
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