Associate Pharmacy Dean - Post-registration Pharmacy Pathways

Health-Education-and-Improvement-Wales; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 81,000 - 93,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Public sector pension

Job summary

Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) is seeking an exceptional and visionary leader to join the Pharmacy Deanery as Associate Pharmacy Dean – Post-registration Pharmacy Pathways. This national role leads development of post-registration career pathways across Wales, ensuring professional progression for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to meet patient and service needs.

The post involves strategic leadership at system level, shaping credentialling, CPD alignment with policy, and

Qualifications

• Registered Pharmacist or Registered Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), or able to demonstrate equivalent professional credibility and expertise in pharmacy education
• Master’s level knowledge of pharmacy education, workforce transformation and professional development, acquired through postgraduate study and/or substantial senior-level experience.
• Extensive knowledge of: post-registration pharmacy professional progression, credentialling and assurance at a national level; NHS Wales workforce and service landscape; enhanced, advanced, consultant and emerging equivalent levels of pharmacy practice.
• A depth of profession knowledge and skills across a range of disciplines such as education management, financial management, performance management, information systems and staff management.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategic development of enhanced, advanced and consultant practice pathways across Wales.
• Drive the development of future professional progression pathways for pharmacy technicians.
• Provide national leadership for credentialling, professional recognition and workforce capability development.
• Ensure post-registration education and continuing professional development align with workforce priorities, Welsh Government policy and service transformation programmes.
• Influence and collaborate with senior stakeholders across Welsh Government, NHS Wales organisations, Higher Education Institutions, regulators and professional bodies.
• Provide leadership and line management for the Post-registration Pharmacy Pathway and CPD Team.

Job description

Main area Pharmacy Grade Band 8c Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week (An agile working model to allow flexibility between home and office-based working.) Job ref 082-PST008-1026

Employer Health Education and Improvement Wales Employer type NHS Site Ty Dysgu Town White Salary £80,698 - £92,984 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 03/11/2026 23:59

Associate Pharmacy Dean - Post-registration Pharmacy Pathways

Band 8c

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 .

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications.

Job overview

Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) is seeking an exceptional and visionary leader to join the Pharmacy Deanery as Associate Pharmacy Dean – Post-registration Pharmacy Pathways.

This is a unique opportunity to provide national strategic leadership for the development of post-registration pharmacy career pathways across Wales, supporting the advancement of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians throughout their professional careers.

Working at a senior system level, you will lead the development, implementation and assurance of nationally recognised professional progression and credentialling pathways, ensuring the pharmacy workforce has the capability, skills and recognition required to meet the changing needs of patients and services across NHS Wales.

We are looking for an experienced and inspirational leader who can demonstrate:

• Significant senior leadership experience within pharmacy education, workforce, professional development or service transformation.
• A strong track record of delivering complex programmes and influencing policy at a national or system level.
• Extensive knowledge of post-registration pharmacy education, professional progression and workforce development.
• Exceptional strategic thinking, stakeholder engagement and influencing skills.
• A passion for developing the pharmacy workforce and improving patient outcomes across Wales.

Main duties of the job

As Associate Pharmacy Dean, you will:

• Lead the strategic development of enhanced, advanced and consultant practice pathways across Wales.
• Drive the development of future professional progression pathways for pharmacy technicians.
• Provide national leadership for credentialling, professional recognition and workforce capability development.
• Ensure post-registration education and continuing professional development align with workforce priorities, Welsh Government policy and service transformation programmes.
• Influence and collaborate with senior stakeholders across Welsh Government, NHS Wales organisations, Higher Education Institutions, regulators and professional bodies.
• Provide leadership and line management for the Post-registration Pharmacy Pathway and CPD Team.

Working for our organisation

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,
• 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?

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click to view in Trac

Person specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

• Registered Pharmacist or Registered Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), or able to demonstrate equivalent professional credibility and expertise in pharmacy education
• Master’s level knowledge of pharmacy education, workforce transformation and professional development, acquired through postgraduate study and/or substantial senior-level experience.
• Extensive knowledge of: oPost-registration pharmacy professional progression, capability development, credentialling and assurance at a national level o NHS Wales workforce and service landscape. o Enhanced, advanced, consultant and emerging equivalent levels of pharmacy practice, including application to pharmacists and pharmacy technicians as frameworks evolve. oNational policy, strategy and regulatory frameworks
• A depth of profession knowledge and skills across a range of disciplines such as education management, financial management, performance management, information systems and staff management.

Experience

• Significant experience of leading pharmacy education, training or workforce initiatives at a national level.
• Significant senior leadership experience in pharmacy workforce, education or service development
• Track record of delivering complex, large-scale programmes or transformation initiatives
• Experience of influencing policy and working at a national/system level.
• Experience of budget management, commissioning, and financial accountability
• Extensive experience of stakeholder engagement across organisational boundaries

Other

• Welsh Speaker (Level 1) or willingness to work towards.

Skills and Attributes

• Highly developed strategic thinking and leadership capability.
• Advanced negotiation and influencing skills, including managing complex and contentious issues
• Ability to interpret complex information and develop innovative, evidence-based solutions.
• Ability to build and sustain strategic partnerships and networks.
• Strong commitment to improving workforce capability and patient outcomes.

It is essential that your application demonstrates how you meet the job description / person specification for this post.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.