Stroke Survivor Involvement Lead (Wales)
Employer: Stroke Association
Location: Home-based, Wales. However, frequent travel will be required as part of this role (may include team meetings or other work-related meetings)
Temporary: This is an 18-month fixed-term contract
Working hours: 35 hours per week
Salary: Circa £41,300 per annum
Closing date: 27 September 2026
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We’re looking for a motivated and passionate person to join the Wales Locality Team.
The involvement Lead is a new role for the Stroke Association in Wales.
Working in partnership with colleagues at NHS Wales and Welsh Government, this role will set a strategic direction to involve and work closely with people affected by stroke; including stroke survivors, their carers, professionals and other stakeholders.
This role will embed a culture of involvement, ensuring the patient and carer lived experience is incorporated into all future work and used to facilitate service improvement.
Key responsibilities will include:
Taking the lead in ensuring that lived experience shapes the implementation of key policy documents including but not limited to; the Quality Statement for Stroke and Life after Stroke Service Standards for Wales.
Liaising with patients and families concerning complex, distressing and emotional discussions around their experiences; enabling those experiences to contribute to future improvements in stroke care.
Building effective relationships and working closely with key stakeholders including Welsh Government, NHS Wales, Third Sector organisations and other Service User representatives.
You will have a proven record of:
Practical experience of patient involvement.
In-depth knowledge of patient and public involvement legislation, strategies and methodologies
Practical experience of qualitative and quantitative social research methods and data analysis
Knowledge of NHS Wales’s structures and key policies – particularly stroke services
This role requires extensive travel across a large geographical locality to visit people at community settings or at home. Candidates must be able to demonstrate how they can meet this requirement of the role
To fulfil the role, you must be a resident of the UK and have the right to work in the UK.
Please click here to view the role profile. To view the Welsh translated version of the role profile, please click here.
If you are applying under the Disability Confident scheme, please indicate this in your supporting statement when applying for the role.
Closing Date: 27 September 2026 | Interview Date: Week commencing 5 October
Please note all roles close at midnight
Interviews will be held via video conferencing. Please let us know if this will present any challenges when you submit your application.
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