Job overview

Applications are invited from highly motivated Emergency Physicians to join a multi-professional team delivering high quality compassionate emergency care to the people of Cardiff and South Wales.

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is recognised as a teaching centre of excellence in a wide range of clinical services.  

Although this post is full-time, consideration will be given to applicants who require flexible working arrangements.

Applicants should either be on the Specialist Register or be a Specialist Registrar within six months of their expected date of receipt of a CCT at the time of interview.

You will be able to take advantage of the excellent Consultant contract for Wales.  The basic salary range for this post is £110,240 per annum to £160,951 per annum.

Applicants must ensure they provide names and contact details of referees covering at least the last 3 years of their employment/training history in full.  In addition, applicants who are currently or have most recently been employed as a substantive Consultant or as a Locum Consultant in post for more than 12 months must also provide the name of their Medical Director as an additional referee.

Main duties of the job

The Emergency Unit is situated on the University Hospital of Wales campus and sees a total of 144,000 new patients per annum of which 40,000 are children.  All children under 16 years are seen in the co-located Paediatric Emergency Unit.  There is a full complement of junior medical staff working in the Unit 24/7 with trainees from a number of rotations.  We have an Advanced Nurse Practitioner development programme.

We provide Consultant shop-floor cover from 0800 to midnight with resident on-call cover 24/7.  Weekends are worked at a frequency of 1:6 as programmed activity and commensurate time off during the week.  Job plans are based on team working and intended to be fair, sustainable and provide good work-life balance.  Our Consultant rota is annualised and self-rostering is negated via a digital rostering system to improve flexibility.

Working for our organisation

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 17,000 staff, providing over 100 specialist services. Working across 6 hospital sites, we have a diverse range of career opportunities to offer. Serving around 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, we are focussed on the health and care needs of our local population whilst working with our partners to develop regional services.

Our mission is “Living Well, Caring Well, Working Together” and our vision is that every person’s chance of leading a healthy life should be equal.   As an organisation we are unashamedly ambitious for our population’s health, rising to the challenges of today and tomorrow through our 10-year strategy, Shaping our Future Wellbeing. We are contributing to a healthier Wales with great emphasis placed on innovation and improvement, learning from around the world and leading the way in clinical research.   Partnership working is strong at Cardiff and Vale, and we work closely with our staff and our community.    

Cardiff, the thriving Welsh capital, is a fantastic city to live and work in with an abundance of sports, arts and cultural attractions. Situated to the west of Cardiff, the Vale of Glamorgan offers a combination of beautiful Welsh countryside and a dramatic natural coastline.  Whether city life or rural living, Cardiff and the Vale offers the best of both worlds.