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# Locality Workforce Development Lead

- **Company:** Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
- **Location:** Twickenham, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £59,798.0 - £67,020.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Cyber Security, Software Engineering
- **Published:** September 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/M9990-26-0654/ats-direct-apply

## About the Role

* Effective communication to a broad range of stakeholders
 * Demonstrates ability for critical thinking and creative problem solving
 * Effective negotiation and influencing skills, * Project management experience, preferably within health care, * Demonstrates knowledge of healthcare education including Primary Care workforce priorities and placement requirements
 * Experience of managing and co-ordinating a team
 * Experience of writing reports, briefing papers and presentations for a variety of stakeholders
 * Experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment across organisations, * Master's Degree in Education, Health & Social Care or Project Management subject, or equivalent experience working at a senior level in an education, project management or healthcare setting
 * Registered with the appropriate regulatory body (for example the GMC, NMC or HCPC) with a current licence to practise
 * Evidence of continual professional development

## Description

Working within Surrey and Sussex Integrated Care Board Primary Care Training Hub (primarily for Sussex), the post-holder will act as the point of contact for specific activities and will be responsible for ensuring operational delivery of NHS England Workforce Training and Education requirements and associated primary care workforce programmes and projects across the health and care system.

This role will also work within a wider matrix to enable workstream leads to connect across Kent Surrey and Sussex, the South East and nationally to reduce variation and duplication as well as learn from other areas as and where required. The Training Hub Locality Workforce Development Lead will cover workstreams covering Surrey and Sussex and/or at a level depending on the needs of the Training Hub.

The role is key in working with colleagues to shape, codesign and support the implementation of local strategies for the development of the primary care workforce, identifying and realising opportunities to achieve key outcomes in line with national policy. They will make use of workforce and project data available to understand the needs of the workforce now and in the future to embed recruitment, development and retention strategies that relates to the respective integrated care system (ICS) and Training Hub population health needs.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will work closely with a range of local stakeholders to support developing the Training Hub agenda within their governance arrangements, enabling existing, and new, workstreams as required by the Surrey & Sussex PCTH programme and activities specific to individual workforce roles.

This will include ICS level programmes of work as agreed with through the respective Primary Care Workforce Implementation Group linked to educational projects, placements and educational support for learners of the current and future workforce., You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
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