Contact Lead Employer

Single Lead Employer (SLE) Team

Please note that, due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the SLE Team are currently working from home with limited access to the office.

Address:

NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership

4-5 Charnwood Court

Heol Billingsley

Parc Nantgarw

CF15 7QZ

Group Specialty Email Addresses

When you email in, please provide your full name and which specialty you belong to (e.g. John Doe, ST4 in Cardiology), this allows us to identify you faster and process your query.

Training Group	Specialties	Contact Email Address
Children & Women	Paediatrics (ST/SpR)	nwsspsle.cw@wales.nhs.uk
Clinical	Pathologies, Psychiatry (Core & Higher), Radiology	nwsspsle.clinical@wales.nhs.uk
Dental	Dental Foundation (DFT) only	nwsspsle.dental@wales.nhs.uk
Foundation	F1/FiY1 only (F2s from 4th August 2021)	nwsspsle.foundation@wales.nhs.uk
GP Trainees	GPSTR	nwsspsle.gpst@wales.nhs.uk
Acute Care Common Stem	ACCS - Anaesthetics, ACCS - Emergency Medicine, ACCS - Internal Medicine	nwsspsle.accs@wales.nhs.uk
Anaesthetics	Anaesthetics	nwsspsle.anaesthetics@wales.nhs.uk
Core Medicine	IMT, Core Medical	nwsspsle.medical@wales.nhs.uk
Higher Medicine	Clinical oncology, Haematology, Renal Medicine, Palliative medicine, Neurology	nwsspsle.medical@wales.nhs.uk
Medical	Cardiology, Dermatology, Ophthalmology, Resp. Medicine, Rheumatology	nwsspsle.medical@wales.nhs.uk
Pre-Reg Pharmacy	AfC Bands	nwsspsle.pharmacy@wales.nhs.uk
Surgical	General & Higher, Trauma & Orthopaedics	nwsspsle.surgical@wales.nhs.uk

The SLE Team will endeavor to support any query received as much as reasonably possible, however certain queries (such as pay slips, expenses) will need to go to the relevant team, details of which are provided below.

Payroll:

Phone:	02920 903908 (Option for NWSSP/Velindre)
Email:	NWSSP.PayrollSharedServices@wales.nhs.uk
Web:	https://nwssp.nhs.wales/ourservices/employment-services/contact-employment-services/south-east-wales/velindre-nhs-trust/

Expenses (General):

Email:	Login (cymru.nhs.uk) (You will need access to your NHS Wales email address to use this feature)
Guide:	http://howis.wales.nhs.uk/sites3/page.cfm?orgid=884&pid=72647
Website:	https://nwssp.nhs.wales/ourservices/lead-employer/general-information/expenses/

Pensions:

Phone:	02921 500 100 (Option for NWSSP/Velindre)
Email:	Pensions.Department@wales.nhs.uk

Lease Cars:

Email:

michelle.richards@wales.nhs.uk

Medical Performers List:

Phone:	01495 332093 / 332124
Email:	nwssp-primarycareservices@wales.nhs.uk

FAQs

What does the Single Lead Employment (SLE) model encompass?

The SLE model in Wales is a collaborative employment model, with the responsibilities of the traditional employer shared between three major stakeholders, who are:

Single Lead Employer – NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership (NWSSP)
Host Organisation
Health Education Improvement Wales (HEIW)

How has the Single Lead Employment model evolved in Wales?

Prior to 2015, Trainees who undertook a training programme requiring them to rotate/move over various departments, in different hospitals and/or health boards every 6 months, would then need to complete new starter paperwork for every rotation (e.g. payroll forms, pre employment checks). So, the Single Lead Employer (SLE) arrangement was put into place so the trainees could be employed by one employer throughout the duration of their training programme.

It was then agreed that not SLE will employ all Medical & Dental training groups over Wales. Since Aug 2020, the team have been transferring a different trainee group from Health Board employment to SLE employment every month.

Once the transfer process has been completed for each group, they then become SLE’s responsibility. The groups will continue to transfer to SLE individually and is scheduled to be fully complete in May 2022. The SLE team will then directly employ any new intakes for the groups, which includes onboarding tasks such as undertaking pre employment checks and processing New Employee forms for payroll.

What are the benefits of the SLE model?

Trainees

The benefits are that for the whole of the training scheme, the trainee will have one employer. This means that if you rotate into a different organisation you will remain employed by NWSSP and your employment checks will not generally require re- examination.

It is anticipated that the model will cut down bureaucracy, provide greater equity and improve the working experience for trainees.

Prior to the new arrangements, each time a trainee moved from one health board or host organisation to another, they had to change employer. This was time-consuming and caused problems in areas such as mortgages, tax codes, access to employee service based entitlements (e.g. cycle to work, childcare vouchers). These problems will be removed by the new arrangements.

Host organisations and HEIW

The benefits for the host organisations and HEIW are:

Economies of scale savings for NHS Wales;
One point of contact for employment support and expertise for all trainees;
Streamlining of transactional processes; and
Increased close working with GMC/BMA/GDC/GPC/NHS Wales Employers in relation trainee contractual matters.

Get in Touch

If you have a query for Lead Employer. Please contact us below:

Contact Lead Employer

Single Lead Employer (SLE) Team

Group Specialty Email Addresses

Training Group

Specialties

Contact Email Address

What does the Single Lead Employment (SLE) model encompass?

How has the Single Lead Employment model evolved in Wales?

What are the benefits of the SLE model?