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Job summary

Main area
Accident and Emergency
Grade
Junior Clinical Fellow
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months (Up to)
Hours
Full time - 40 hours per week
Job ref
110-MD316-0525
Employer
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Employer type
NHS
Site
Princess of Wales Hospital
Town
Bridgend
Salary
£43,821 - £57,650 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
26/05/2025 23:59

Employer heading

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Junior Clinical Fellow in Emergency Medicine

Junior Clinical Fellow

We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000.  We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.

Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.

We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.

Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.

All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.

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

Job overview

Junior Clinical Fellows in Emergency Medicine

Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend

80/20 split rota

Are you finishing your foundation training? Are you unsure which speciality you want to choose? Are you looking for an opportunity to try

Emergency Medicine before applying for training?

Can we tempt you to join our amazing multidisciplinary team? Our Junior Clinical Fellow posts are an ideal opportunity to work in a supportive

clinical environment with dedicated non-clinical time for portfolio development.

The posts will have dedicated non-clinical time (20% of rota time) to develop a portfolio of your choice, ideas include:

• Educational Fellow– 6 months (with an option to progress SIM training)

• Quality Improvement Fellow - 1 year

• Ultrasound Fellow- 1 year (with a commitment to sign off level 1 competence by the end).

Feedback from trainees has been extremely positive including:

‘I have felt fully supported and able to discuss any issues; I was fully aware what was expected of me and felt well included in the ED Team’.

‘Sim teaching here has been so useful and always highly relevant as well as engaging and interactive’.

English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidates will be part of a team of 13 junior doctors in a busy district general hospital Emergency Department (ED). You will work

alongside nine middle grade doctors & eight consultants in a multi-disciplinary team including ENPs and ACPs providing front line care to an

undifferentiated case mix. The successful applicant will participate in a full shift rota providing 24-hour shop floor cover. The department provides

a consultant led service with ample opportunity for supervision. There is direct consultant shop floor cover approximately 12 hours a day, 7 days a

week.

The post is available to start from August for up to 6 or 12 months.

Working for our organisation

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family.  Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:

  • We listen, learn and improve
  • We treat everyone with respect
  • We all work together as one team

 

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Post Holder will be required to perform the full range of duties outlined in the job description.  The Emergency Department provides a 24/7 service; therefore, the receptionist will be expected to cover a mixture of shifts including days evenings, nights and weekends

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • MBBS or recognised equivalent
  • Full GMC/GDC Registration
Desirable criteria
  • ALS ATLS APLS

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Completion of foundation competences
  • Previous experience of working in the NHS/experience of NHS UK working practices and systems.
Desirable criteria
  • Previous EM experience

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Age positiveDisability confident leaderStop Smoking Wales is the NHS Smoking Cessation Service in WalesMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.hyderus o ran anableddAccredited Living Wage EmployerWelsh logo for Armed Force Bronze Award for Cym Taf UHBAccredited Living Wage EmployerCore principlesPrentisiaethau Apprenticeships

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Wendy Grabham
Job title
Directorate Support Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01656 754004
Additional information

Kathryn Kearney, Acute & Emergency Medicine Support Manager

01656 754004

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