Job overview

The Adult Critical Care Transfer and Retrieval team are looking to recruit to a Senior clinical Fellow level post for a fixed term period for 12 months due to funding due to commence in August 2026.

To qualify for this exciting role you must be a doctor with ST4+ equivalent training in Intensive Care Medicine who is fully registered with the GMC and who has significant demonstrable experience in the transfer care setting, aligned to the personal specification. It is essential that you are ambitious, highly motivated and able to remain calm under pressure.

These are posts based in North Wales, and involve combining sessions in transfer and retrieval medicine and critical care . This is a full-time post with out of hour’s commitments. The job plan is negotiable, depending on individual’s interests and service requirements, and split into 2 components. A typical job plan will include:

• Approximately 50% of shifts will be with ACCTS-North
• Approximately 50% in Critical Care at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd

The job is suitable for doctors who have completed core training in the Adult Critical Care Transfer Service Cymru (ACCTS), intensive care or anaesthesia and have a minimum of 18 months of experience in anaesthesia. 

Main duties of the job

ACCTS is a predominately road-based service deployed with dedicated critical care transfer vehicles and equipment. The Retrieval and Transfer physician will deploy in a team alongside a support worker and a retrieval and transfer practitioner drawn from a pool of nurses and allied health professionals with extensive intensive care experience and specific training in inter-facility critical care transfer. ACCTS in partnership with WAA/EMRTS will operate a rotary wing model of retrieval and transfer to support long-distance transfers.

Upon completion of appropriate training and a period of targeted clinical experience, it would be expected that you would then take up a full part in the duty rota. The ability to work both day and night shifts is an essential part of the role.

Whilst a base location will be agreed upon with the successful candidate there may be a need to travel to our various bases, across Wales for education and service delivery requirements and all candidates would be expected to contribute to twilight or overnight cover.

The department of Intensive Care at Glan Clwyd Hospital will offer a training program with a view to some candidates staying on for a further 2 years to complete the core training curriculum, to allow application for entry into specialist training

Working for our organisation

Swansea Bay University Health Board has responsibility for the health of around 390,000 people in the Neath Port Talbot and Swansea areas, with a budget of around £1 billion and employing 12,500 people.    We are a University Health Board working in partnership with Swansea University, Swansea School of Medicine, the School of Health Science and the Institute of Life Science. The HB has three major hospitals providing a range of services: Morriston and Singleton hospitals in Swansea and Neath Port Talbot hospital in Baglan, Port Talbot. 

The Health Board is part of A Regional Collaboration for Health (ARCH), which is a partnership with Hywel Dda UHB and Swansea University. Aimed at improving the wellbeing and wealth of South West Wales. 

Swansea is Wales' second-largest city, and sits on the five-mile sweep of Swansea Bay. An ideal base for exploring South-West Wales, there is also much on offer for visitors in Swansea itself. Swansea has a range of shops, cozy cafes, great restaurants, art galleries as well as being able to offer good outdoor lifestyle with its beautiful coastline and beaches on the Gower Peninsula. Swansea also has excellent sporting facilities including the Wales National pool and liberty stadium home to the Ospreys and Swansea City football club.