Individual Patient Request Funding Lay Member

NHS; Pontypridd; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Wales is looking for a Lay Member to join the Independent Patient Funding Request Panel. This role involves contributing to decision-making processes for funding requests, ensuring patient perspectives are considered. Candidates should have committee experience, a patient-centered approach, and analytical skills. The position requires a time commitment of approximately two days monthly, with the potential for reappointment. Knowledge of Welsh is desirable but not essential.

Qualifications

• Experience of working in a committee setting.
• Ability to commit to meetings and prepare adequately.
• Ability to display empathy and understanding of bilingual service.

Responsibilities

• Support decision-making for specialty funding requests.
• Gather patient perspectives in healthcare decisions.
• Bring independent judgment from a lay perspective to the panel.

Skills

Committee experience

Patient-centered approach

Analytical skills

Objectivity

Understanding of equity and diversity

Job description

Individual Patient Request Funding Lay Member (NWJCC)

The closing date is 29 January 2026.

Join Our Team at NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee (NWJCC).

Position: Lay Member All Wales Independent Patient Funding Request Panel (IPFR).

Do you live in Wales?

Are you a patient, a carer, a retired professional? Are you someone who cares about how decisions are made to fund specialist treatments for Welsh patients?

Do you want to play a key role in helping to ensure the needs and experiences of patients and the public of Wales are fully considered when IPFR decisions are made?

The NWJCC is a joint committee of the seven health boards in Wales, with an Independent Chair and Lay Members. We support collaborative commissioning across Wales, with around 120 staff based in Mold and Nantgarw/Treforest.

Our mission is 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 £1.14bn budget.

The NWJCC is committed to ensuring that public and patient voice is at the centre of shaping our specialist healthcare services and is seeking to appoint two Lay Members to support the All-Wales IPFR Panel.

Main duties of the job

IPFR requests fund NHS healthcare for individual patients who fall outside the range of services and treatments that a health board or NWJCC has agreed to fund and/or to provide routinely. This can include a request for any type of healthcare including a specific service, treatment, medicine, device or piece of equipment.

The IPFR Panel work to the published All Wales IPFR Policy (Making Decisions on Individual Patient Funding Requests) and the NWJCC IPFR Panel Terms of Reference (ToR).

The Lay Members are expected to use their skills and experience to bring independent judgement and experience from a lay perspective and apply this to support IPFR decision making.

Panels are held virtually on a bi-monthly basis via MS Teams with a time commitment of two days per month to prepare for and attending each panel.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please contact Andrea Richards, Senior IPFR Manager at NWJCC via email [e-mail] or mobile [phone].

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 15,000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.

Job responsibilities

Lay Member of the NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee (NWJCC)

Accountable to: Chair of the NWJCC IPFR Panel

Term of Office: The Lay Member of the All-Wales IPFR Panel will be appointed for a period of up to three years. They may be re-appointed for a further period of up to one year but may not serve longer than four years in aggregate.

Time commitment: Approximately two days per month.

Liaison with: Members of the NWJCC Senior Leadership Team, Officers of NWJCC, Members of the All Wales IPFR Panel, Members of the Joint Committee, Local Health Boards, Llais, and key stakeholders within the community/across Wales.

Role of the Individual Funding Request Panel

The IPFR Panel works to the published All Wales IPFR Policy making decisions on Individual Patient Funding Requests.

The purpose of the Panel as a Sub Committee of NWJCC is to hold delegated authority to consider and make decisions on requests to fund NHS healthcare for patients who fall outside the range of services and treatments that a Health Board has agreed to provide routinely.

The role of the Lay Member

Lay Members are members of the public who may also be patients or carers. Lay Member representation brings important views and perspectives into the IPFR Panel decision making process. It is important to ensure that decisions are made with patients at the heart of the process.

Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This does not mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we will consider it an advantage when short‑listing and selecting 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. For more information, see Welsh Language Guidance in the documents right at the bottom.

For additional details on this role and its duties, please see recruitment pack and role description and click Apply now on Trac.

Person Specification

Knowledge and Experience

• Experience of working in a committee setting. It is also desirable to have experience of working in the NHS or other public sector organisation.

Personal Attributes and Skills

• Ability to work within a defined process, applying agreed criteria consistently and equitably.
• Ability to commit to attend meetings (face-to-face or virtual) and to adequately prepare for meetings.
• Ability to bring a professional and patient centred approach to the Panel.
• Ability to analyse complex information.
• Ability to display objectivity and understand the need for confidentiality.
• Ability to give an independent view on matters relating to the patient and public perspective of funding healthcare treatments and be articulate and able to constructively share views and opinions with other Panel members.
• Have knowledge and understanding of equity and diversity and commitment to applying these principles.

Other Requirements

• Welsh language skills are desirable. All candidates will be expected to display empathy towards the language and demonstrate leadership to strengthen bilingual service provision within the NHS in Wales. A willingness to work towards attaining Welsh Language Level 1 is desirable.
• Candidates must not currently be an NHS employee.
• Candidates must demonstrate willingness to undertake necessary training.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Address

Unit G1, The Willowford, Main Avenue, Treforest Industrial Estate