Join HEIW Board as an Independent Member
Published 28 November 2025
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Board of HEIW as an Independent Member to help shape the future of the NHS workforce in Wales. HEIW is the strategic workforce body for NHS Wales with statutory functions that include education and training, workforce planning, workforce development and transformation, leadership and succession planning, and careers. Our purpose is to develop a workforce that delivers excellent care to patients/service users and excellent population health. We are a Special Health Authority working closely with other NHS bodies and our partners; Social Care Wales, education providers, professional and regulatory bodies and Welsh Government.
As a Board we conduct our business in line with our organisational values which are:
- Respect for all
- Together as team
- Ideas that improve
We are keen to ensure that the composition of the Board reflects the communities we serve. We value individual uniqueness and diversity and believe that this helps us to deliver services that reflect the needs of everyone in our community. We wish to increase representation of people from diverse identities, backgrounds and cultures and actively encourage applications from underrepresented groups.
Members Remuneration – £9,360 plus reasonable expenses.
Each post is based on a notional commitment of four days per month.
The closing date for applications is 2 January 2026 at 16:00pm.
For further details and to apply go to Appointment of Independent Member to Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) - Welsh Government (Cais) or for queries please contact by email publicappointments@gov.wales.
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