This fixed-term graduate scheme sits with Health Education and Improvement Wales, the strategic workforce body for NHS Wales, and places trainees in a Welsh health board, trust or special health authority over 24 months. Trainees rotate through placements that give supervised responsibility for managing services, staff and financial resources, in corporate or patient-facing departments. The programme includes an academic course, coaching and mentoring, and Welsh language skills are desirable though English speakers are equally welcome. Selection weighs a written application equally with online assessments, so both need equal attention.
What the job involves
- Complete a series of placements across NHS Wales organisations in management positions
- Take supervised responsibility for managing services, staff and financial resources
- Work in corporate or patient-facing departments during placements
- Build partnerships between healthcare teams, internal and external to NHS Wales, Welsh Government and other public sector organisations
- Take part in work-based and academic learning
- Support delivery of high standards of service within a culture of continuous improvement
- Help develop creative, innovative and sustainable ways of working
- Gain exposure to current challenges behind healthcare change and its delivery
- Contribute to integrating and modernising services
What’s required
Qualifications
- Degree of 2:2 or above in any discipline, or predicted to achieve one
- Equivalent experience, skills and knowledge accepted in place of a degree
Experience
- Building effective relationships and working collaboratively within a team or group
- Working with people from a range of backgrounds and interests
- Researching from a range of sources, analysing them to identify key themes, and producing reports and recommendations
Skills & knowledge
- Excellent written, verbal, communication and numerical skills
- Agility and resilience to prioritise, meet deadlines and work under pressure
- Planning, organisation and creative, innovative solutions
- Teamwork with tact and diplomacy, plus effective influencing and negotiating
- Analysing complex data to identify key issues and themes
- Drive, initiative and proactivity in delivering improvements, with competence in desktop applications
Other
- Insight into own strengths and weaknesses
Nice to have
- Project or PMO qualification, such as PRINCE2 or MSP, or equivalent experience
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Knowledge or experience of working within the NHS
- Advanced IT skills in desktop applications such as Excel and Power BI
- Welsh language skills at levels 1 to 5 across understanding, speaking, reading and writing
What’s offered
- Full orientation and corporate induction with a 90-day Welcome itinerary
- Structured placement rotations
- Academic programme
- Coaching, training and mentorship
- Values-based performance appraisal
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
