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More information >>Posted 19/09/2024
£59,857 - £69,553 per annum
We are seeking to appoint a Head of Engagement to support us in our ambitions for continuous engagement and help us to listen to the diverse voices of our communities across mid and west Wales.
This is an exciting opportunity for an engagement professional who values the voices of our patients, staff, partners, and broader communities and has a passion for ensuring that we create opportunities for our population to participate in shaping the services that deliver health care in their area.
Working within a changing and challenging environment, we are looking for an individual who can lead our Engagement Team to deliver on our long-term strategy, and who can establish themselves, and the team, as experts in engagement, providing advice and solutions to the wider organisation and with partners that we work alongside.
Main duties of the job
To succeed in this post you will need to:
Together with the team that you lead, you will design, develop and implement innovative participatory engagement approaches. In doing so, you will make full use of traditional and new methods of engagement and involvement to engage patients, carers, staff, stakeholders, and the public to build public confidence in the organisation and involve them in designing services and strategies.
Working for our organisation
Hywel Dda University Health Board is the planner and provider of NHS healthcare services for people in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and its bordering counties. Our 12,000 members of staff provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services for around 384,000 people across a quarter of the landmass of Wales. We do this in partnership with our three local authorities and public, private and third sector colleagues, including our volunteers, through:
Four main hospitals: Bronglais General in Aberystwyth, Glangwili General in Carmarthen, Prince Philip in Llanelli and Withybush General in Haverfordwest;
Seven community hospitals: Amman Valley and Llandovery in Carmarthenshire; Tregaron, Aberaeron and Cardigan in Ceredigion; and Tenby and South Pembrokeshire Hospital Health and Social Care Resource Centre in Pembrokeshire;
47 general practices (6 of which are managed practices), 45 dental practices (including 4 orthodontic), 96 community pharmacies, 44 general ophthalmic practices (43 providing Eye Health Examination Wales and 34 low vision services) and 17 domiciliary only providers and 11 health centres;
Numerous locations providing mental health and learning disabilities services;
Highly specialised and tertiary services commissioned by the Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee, a joint committee representing seven health boards across Wales.
Hywel Dda University Health Board provides all healthcare services for the 375,000 people living in West Wales. The Health Board operate four acute hospitals, a number of community hospitals and resource centres, eleven health centres as well as GPs, Dentists and Pharamacists providing Acute, Primary, Community, Mental health and Learning disabilities for the people of Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire.
The Board has a key role in ensuring that the Health Board has good governance arrangements in place and is open and transparent in the way that it works. The Board meets on a bi-monthly basis at a minimum, in public session. It is supported in the decision-making process by a structure of Committee and Advisory Groups. Dates and venues for the public meetings, and associated agendas, papers and minutes can be accessed below.
Ystwyth Building, Hafan Derwen, St Davids Park, Jobswell Road, Carmarthen, SA31 3BB