Job summary
- Main area
- General Medicine
- Grade
- Senior Clinical Fellow
- Contract
- Fixed term: 6 months (6 months with potential extension)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 040-CF758
- Employer
- Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr
- Town
- Ystrad Fawr
- Salary
- £43,821 - £68,330 Per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Senior Clinical Fellow in General Medicine
Senior Clinical Fellow
We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.
Please let us know if you have any particular requirements to enable you to participate in the application and selection process. We will be pleased to discuss any reasonable adjustments needed. Please either contact the recruiting manager named in the job advert or alternatively contact the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board recruitment team on 01497 745805 option 3.
If you are successful at interview for this post, you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore, we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.
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.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process.
Job overview
An exciting set of bespoke opportunities have been developed in line with our unique and exciting Clinical Futures Model. Clinical Futures is aligned to the opening of our brand-new Grange University Hospital in November 2021 and the parallel development of Centres of Excellence in the surrounding enhanced local general hospitals. The development of these sites mean that you would be joining ABUHB at a truly once in a generation era.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board (ABUHB) is an innovative Health Board packed with ambition and is an excellent place to start your career as well as move it up a gear and to continue developing yourself professionally.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidates will have training access across the medical specialties and to a variety of accredited training courses, under the supervision of RCP trainers. ABUHB will be highly flexible to the needs of individual candidates towards their career progression such as obtaining MRCP(UK) and CESR in line with the service requirements. ABUHB has a very good track record with high MRCP (UK) pass rates and training courses for MRCP PACES examination. There is dedicated fund to support with training which will need to be discussed with your RCP trainer. Audit and QI projects will be a requirement of the post and the post is supported by a dedicated research lead based in Cardiff University for anyone interested in research.
All the posts have a resident on-call element, the frequency and acuity is dependent on the rota and level you will be joining. There is also an attractive supplementary banding payment for all Clinical Fellows participating in on-call rotas.
Working for our organisation
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy which opened in October 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This position involves Regulated Activity with adults as defined by the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act (amended by the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012) and the following checks will be undertaken following any conditional offer:
- Enhanced check with barred list information, including
- an adults barred list check
Applicants must hold or be eligible to hold full registration and a licence to practice with the GMC
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- As per person specification
Desirable criteria
- As per person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- As per person specification
Desirable criteria
- As per person specification
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- As per person specification
Desirable criteria
- As per person specification
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- As per person specification
Desirable criteria
- As per person specification
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Shridhar Aithal
- Job title
- Clinical Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01443 802205
- Additional information
Natalie Davies
Service Improvement Manager
01443 583098
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