Fiona Jenkins

Dr Fiona Jenkins is Executive Director for Therapies Health Science for Cardiff and Vale UHB she holds the. Fiona holds a portfolio that includes, professional leadership for approximately 2000 HCPC registered therapists and healthcare scientists and a range of Executive lead functions. Including leadership of several national programmes – Respiratory Health, Stroke, Eye Care, Eye care national digitisation programme, Musculoskeletal planned care.  Fiona is the Armed Forces and Veterans’ Champion for Cardiff and Vale and the NHS Veterans/ Armed forces lead for Wales.

She has corporate responsibilities as part of the Executive team for ensuring the UHB makes a significant contribution to population health improvement, the reduction of health inequalities and continuous improvements in delivering value-based healthcare, this includes the Executive leadership for rehabilitation, including Long Covid. The DoTHs portfolio includes leadership for extending the input that therapists can bring to supporting care closer to home, and for scientists in innovative diagnostics and treatment pathways including genomics and precision medicine.

A physiotherapist by profession and a fellow of her professional body the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, Fiona has worked in clinical and managerial roles and developed as a clinical strategist with substantial multi-professional management and professional leadership experience. Able to demonstrate the significant success of service redesign, experienced in strategic, operational and change management. Specific focus in the last year has included the development of the UHB rehabilitation strategy, and the COVID rehabilitation framework with the development of a rehabilitation website to enable self-management and therapist guided care.

Expertise as a clinician, manager, researcher and editor/author in service reviewing, lecturing, coaching and mentoring at national and international levels.  Keynote speaker at Allied Health leadership conferences in New Zealand and Australia. Fiona has also held the role of Vice-President and Council member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and was awarded a Companion of the Institute of Healthcare Management. Fiona was awarded an MBE in the New Year’s honours in 2021 for her services to healthcare.