Associate Director, Workforce Transformation Psychological Professions

Main area Psychological Professions Grade Band 8c Contract Permanent Hours

• Part time
• Flexible working

Employer Health Education and Improvement Wales Employer type NHS Site Ty Dysgu, Town Cardiff Salary £80,698 - £92,984 per annum, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 01/09/2026 23:59 Interview date 17/09/2026

We are committed to promoting inclusion at HEIW and we welcome applications from everybody recognising the value that diversity brings to our workforce. To work in the UK, candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (ROI) nationals require sponsorship via a Skilled Worker Visa, unless they have permission to work via another route. Please note that HEIW does not currently hold a licence to appoint skilled workers from overseas by sponsoring them to work in the UK.

If successful, candidates from outside of the UK or ROI would be responsible for obtaining their own sponsorship or visa to enable them to work for HEIW - Work in the UK .

The salary scale for a Band 3 has been adjusted as part of the NHS Agenda for Change pay award for 2026/2027 and will be implemented in August 2026 backdated to 01 April 2026 where applicable.

If you are an experienced and visionary leader with a track record of driving innovation and change within the field of psychological therapies, we would like to invite you to be part of a dynamic and transformative team as our next Associate Director for Psychological Professions.

The psychological professions workforce is playing an increasingly important role in the health and care system. As the Professional workforce lead you will provide strategic leadership, advice and guidance for the commissioning and transformation of education and training for the current and future psychological professions workforce. You will apply your professional and clinical knowledge, expertise and experience to influence and set the direction of workforce development and transformation.

You will be accountable for ensuring HEIW provides national workforce responses and solutions to drive innovation and enable systems to achieve improvement in health outcomes for populations across Wales; leading the translation and delivery of national workforce frameworks and initiatives to support the development and implementation of sustainable workforce solutions aimed at improving care for citizens in line with the Duty of Quality.

Providing strategic leadership, advice and guidance for the commissioning and transformation of education and training for the workforce delivering psychological therapies to meet the ambition of the Workforce Strategy for Health and Social Care, and to support increased availability of psychological therapies, through development of skill mix and innovative workforce solutions.

Researching, identifying, and raising awareness of the specific workforce challenges within the psychological professions workforce and working with partners including Welsh Government, professional bodies, NHS and social care organisations and the education sector, to influence and advise upon the development and delivery of education and training programmes to support professional and clinical practice.

Interpreting overall health and social care policy and strategy into specific actions to support workforce development and transformation, establishing measurable goals and outcome measures to evidence impact. This will include using and initiating research activity and building the professional evidence base.

Leading on establishing engagement processes with key stakeholders across Wales and building strategic relationships with professional colleagues across the UK, to represent Wales and to promote and support a workforce transformation improvement driven approach to the delivery of recovery and national programme level initiatives.

Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) is the strategic workforce body for NHS Wales with…