Associate Medical Director – Medical Workforce

Job Overview

PLEASE NOTE THAT WE WILL ONLY ACCEPT APPLICATIONS FROM CONSULTANTS AND MIDDLE GRADE DOCTORS CURRENTLY EMPLOYED WITHIN HYWEL DDA UNIVERSITY HEALTH BOARD.

The Associate Medical Director (AMD) for Medical Workforce is a senior clinical leadership role providing professional authority, clinical credibility, and strategic guidance to support the Health Board’s medical workforce agenda. Working closely with the Assistant Director – Medical Directorate, the postholder will ensure workforce strategies, job planning, and staffing models are clinically robust, aligned with national standards, and professionally acceptable.

Acting on behalf of the Executive Medical Director, the AMD will champion high standards across job planning, productivity, out-of-hours working, and contractual arrangements, balancing service demand with workforce sustainability, compliance, and continuous improvement.

This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to healthcare delivery while living and working in the Hywel Dda region of West Wales, offering a high quality of life alongside a supportive environment for professional development, training, and career progression.

The postholder will play a key role in medical engagement, recruitment, and retention, supporting consultants, SAS doctors, trainees, and international medical graduates, while promoting innovation in workforce models, portfolio careers, and professional development.

Main duties of the job

Clinical Leadership and Professional Authority

Act as a senior clinical leader for the medical workforce, providing expert advice, professional credibility, and championing standards in job planning, additional duties, out-of-hours working, and a culture of professionalism, accountability, and engagement.

Job Planning and Workforce Oversight

Provide clinical leadership for job planning, ensuring consistency, equity, and alignment with best practice, and support resolution of complex or contested issues.

Productivity, Sustainability and Workforce Models

Contribute clinical insight into workforce productivity and service delivery, supporting the development of innovative workforce models, including SAS roles, CESR pathways, and advanced practitioners, while promoting sustainable solutions in hard-to-recruit areas.

Recruitment, Retention and Engagement

Act as a clinical ambassador for recruitment and retention, supporting career development initiatives such as portfolio careers and flexible working, and providing mentorship to senior medical staff.

Stakeholder Engagement and Governance

Lead engagement with the Local Negotiating Committee and professional bodies, support dialogue on contractual issues, contribute to governance and risk management, and ensure workforce decisions support safe, high-quality care.

Working Relationships and General Duties

Work collaboratively with senior leaders, contribute to regional and national discussions.

Working for our organisation

Hywel Dda University Health Board plans and provides NHS healthcare services for people living in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire, and bordering counties.

We have over 13,000 staff and together we provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services.

We work in partnership with the three local authorities, as well as public, private and third sector colleagues, including our valued team of volunteers.

Our services are provided in:

• Four main hospitals: Bronglais Hospital in Aberystwyth; Glangwili Hospital in Carmarthen; Prince Philip Hospital in Llanelli; and Withybush Hospital in Haverfordwest
• Five community hospitals: Amman Valley and Llandovery hospitals in Carmarthenshire; Tregaron Hospital in Ceredigion; and Tenby and South Pembrokeshire hospitals in Pembrokeshire
• Two integrated care centres: Aberaeron and Cardigan in Ceredigion, and several other community settings
• 47 general practices (six of which are health board managed practices); dental practices (including four orthodontic); 97 community pharmacies; 43 general ophthalmic practices; and 8 ophthalmic domiciliary providers
• Numerous mental health and learning disabilities services

Hywel Dda University Health Board operates a bilingual policy. All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English.

IMPORTANT NOTE FOR APPLICANTS: Applications for our roles are carefully reviewed and shortlisted based on specific criteria, which varies from job to job. Using a generic application to apply for multiple roles or relying on automated AI application services, such as Lazy Apply or AI Apply, may not provide the necessary information, leading to your application being overlooked. To ensure your application is given full consideration, we recommend submitting a tailored application that directly addresses the criteria listed in the Person Specification section of the advert.

By submitting your application to NHS Jobs/Trac, you are giving your consent for elements of your application data to be transferred to the NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) and other secure, internal NHS Workforce systems in order to support and manage your recruitment and employment within your employing organisation; to be used by Recruitment for purposes of checking your Professional Registration online (where applicable).

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If you are successfully appointed, by completing the application form you authorise the UHB to obtain any previous NHS service details including all electronically held sickness information, via the Inter Authority Transfer process on the national Electronic Staff Record (ESR).

To work in the UK, all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship to obtain either a Health and Care visa or Skilled Worker visa , unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply should self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship by visiting Work in the UK . If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.