Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatrics
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow
- Contract
- Fixed term: 6 months (with potential extension subject to satisfactory performance review and service need)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week (Days, Long Days, Twilight and night shifts across the full week)
- Job ref
- 040-CF773
- Employer
- Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Grange University Hospital
- Town
- Cwmbran
- Salary
- £46,324 - £71,814 per annum pro rata
- Closing
- 14/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Clinical Fellow in Paediatrics
NHS Medical & Dental: 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 OR SUPPORT needed. If you need any documents in a larger font or a different format (such as braille) please either contact the recruiting manager named in the job advert or alternatively contact the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board recruitment team on 01495 745805 option 3 OR EMAIL [email protected]
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.
The salary scale above has been agreed as part of the NHS Agenda for Change pay award for 2025/2026 and will be implemented in August 2025 with arrears backdated to 1st April 2025 where applicable.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process
Job overview
Senior Clinical Fellow in Paediatrics
Fixed term for 6 months (potential for extension subject to performance and Service need)
The post is in general paediatrics. You will be based at our flagship specialist and critical care Grange University Hospital in Cwmbran, Gwent where excellent paediatric facilities include an integrated Children's Emergency Assessment Unit (CEAU), 2 bedded Stabilisation and High Dependency area, and 48 bedded inpatient ward.
Main duties of the job
Working as part of a team of of Paediatric ST4 to ST8 resident doctors in training and Specialty Doctors, you will provide Middle Grade (Tier 2) duties:
- working alongside ward week consultants to complete ward rounds and remain responsible for inpatients, including high dependency patients
- Assessment of new patients (via GP or Emergency Department)
- Middle grade on-call 1:10 equivalent resident on call rota
- Supervised safeguarding opportunities
A Separate Tier 1 rota is generously covered.
Two consultants cover the wards and HDU during the working week as well as a third consultant who covers CEAU between 1300 hours to 1900 hours in summer and 1300 to 2130 hours in winter.
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. 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 children 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 a children’s barred list check
Applicants must hold or be eligible to hold full registration and a licence to practice with the GMC.
THIS IS A NON TRAINING POST
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- As per person specification
Desirable criteria
- As per person specification
Experience
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
Employer certification / accreditation badges
.jpg "RNIB")
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 Nadeem Syed
- Job title
- Associate Clinical Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
For further information
Those wishing to discuss the post informally in the first instance to arrange a visit to the Department should contact:
Dr Nadeem Syed, Consultant Paediatrician & Associate Clinical Director
Tel: 01633 23802
Email: [email protected]
Dr Soha Elbehery, Consultant Paediatrician & Tier 2 Rota Lead
Tel: 01873 732479
Email: [email protected]
List jobs with Aneurin Bevan University Health Board in Medical and Dental or all sectors