Welsh Language Officer

We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.

Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.

We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.

Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.

All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.

Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.

This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed

Job overview

We are looking for a patient and dedicated Welsh Language Officer to join our team at Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board. In this role, you will play a key part in promoting and facilitating the use of Welsh across the organisation, ensuring compliance with Welsh Language Standards and supporting staff to provide bilingual services.

This includes the translation of documents from English to Welsh and occasionally from Welsh to English, as well as assisting the Communications and Engagement team to provide Welsh language content via social media.

This role will contribute to ensuring that the Health Board complies with the Welsh Language Standards Regulations (2011), thereby helping to ensure that bilingual services are offered to patients in the Rhondda Cynon Taf, Merthyr and Bridgend areas.

The post holder will help to deliver a comprehensive Welsh language service in line with Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board’s Welsh language policies and procedures and the Welsh Language Standards.

The post holder will work closely with service managers to support service improvement and ensure that the Welsh language is a key consideration in all University Health Board business.

• Supporting the implementation of Welsh Language Standards across the health board
• Providing advice and guidance to staff on the use of Welsh in the workplace
• Monitoring and reporting on compliance with Welsh Language Standards
• Provide a written translation service from English to Welsh and from Welsh to English. This will include the translation of:
• Healthcare material such as patient information leaflets, patient letters and medical instructions from fields as diverse as Physiotherapy to Nutrition.
• Website material for the Health Board’s website.
• Letters to and from the public and any other correspondence received.
• Social media content such as Facebook posts and Tweets.
• Posters and signage.
• Reports such as the Health Board’s Annual Report.
• And any other texts as deemed appropriate by the Welsh Language Officer or Welsh Language Services Manager.
• To work closely and alongside the Communication Team in providing bilingual information for publication via the organisation’s internet/intranet and social media pages.

Working for our organisation

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.

Person specification

Degree

• Degree in Welsh or related subject

• Experience of working in NHS Wales

Experience

• Some experience of translation in a professional capacity

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.