Why Choose Wales?

Why Choose to Live and Work in Wales?

Wales provides an excellent venue for your GP training. Known for its natural beauty, Wales is home to some of the most beautiful landscape and scenery, while also maintaining its cultural and social attraction. From beaches and mountains to top-tier sports, festivals and performers, Wales truly does have it all.

NWSSP is proud to support the Train.Work.Live campaign, which is aimed at promoting Wales as a place to train, work and live.

If you are considering or would like to pursue the GP specialty within Wales, visit The Wales Deanery for more information on the assessment process and deadlines.

In the meantime, below is a taste of what Wales has to offer….

Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty

Wales has 5 areas of outstanding national beauty which you can enjoy…

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Beaches

Wales is renowned for its beaches that stretch across the whole of…

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Coastlines

Wales is the only country that has a pathway covering its whole…

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Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty

Wales has 5 areas of outstanding national beauty which you can enjoy…

Find out more

Beaches

Wales is renowned for its beaches that stretch across the whole of…

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Coastlines

Wales is the only country that has a pathway covering its whole…

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Culture

Wales is renowned for its culture and its array of museums and castles…

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Music and Festivals

Throughout the year Wales has a multitude of festivals and shows that…

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Sport

Whether you are an active sportsperson or just a spectator, Wales has…

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Culture

Wales is renowned for its culture and its array of museums and castles…

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Music and Festivals

Throughout the year Wales has a multitude of festivals and shows that…

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Sport

Whether you are an active sportsperson or just a spectator, Wales has…

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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.

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