Employer Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Employer type NHS
Site Princess of Wales Hospital
Town Bridgend
Salary £116,600 per annum
Salary period Yearly
Closing 02/04/2025 23:59
Locum Consultant in Emergency Medicine
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.
Job overview
Are you looking to work in a hospital that is committed to improving patient flow in the pursuit of excellent Emergency Care?
The ED consultant team is responsible for the provision of Emergency Department services at the Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend. The ED team includes 5 trainee registrars, 3 specialty doctors, a senior clinical fellow and ACPs heading up the senior decision maker tier. Along with Emergency Nurse Practitioners, 10 junior doctors and 4 F1s. The team works closely with colleagues from inpatient specialty teams to deliver appropriate, largely pathway driven, ambulatory care.
The department sees approximately 59,000 new patients per annum with approximately 23% of those being children. Several of the consultant body are active in Emergency Medicine Ultrasound; 24/7 stroke thrombolysis is delivered in the ED; regional training leadership is within the consultant body; our culture is one of continuous improvement, development and pursuit of excellence in Emergency Medical practice combined with sustainable work-life balance. Our values are comprised in the commitment to developing services to support the local impact of reconfiguration of Emergency Departments in South Wales.
This post is fixed term to cover maternity leave.
English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Main duties of the job
You will provide a clinical service, with colleagues, which will include the responsibility for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness.
Working with consultant colleagues and the multi-professional team you will have continuing responsibility for the well-being of all patients under your care; allowing for proper delegation to, and training of staff.
If required, you will be named in the contracts of junior medical staff as the person expected to act as Educational Supervisor for those assigned to you; overseeing their training and being the initial source of advice for doctors regarding their careers, within the guidelines of the specialist bodies and medical royal colleges. You will participate in the specialty’s postgraduate teaching sessions.
We are a University Health Board and you will be encouraged to participate in or actively support research and development in line with our Research and Development strategy and in discussion with the Director of Research and Development.
Consultants have an important leadership role in their teams and the Health Board. You will be required to work closely with your clinical and management colleagues in the safe and efficient running of services and are expected to contribute, with colleagues, to the management, improvement and modernisation of the services in which you work. You may also be asked to contribute nationally to support the NHS in Wales.
Working for our organisation
Ideally situated between Wales’ capital city, Cardiff to the South, the coastal town, Porthcawl to the West and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons National Park to the North, we operate within a vibrant community, rich with history and heritage.
With almost 13,500 staff, our workforce is the life-blood not only of the University Health Board, but also many of the communities that we serve. We take our role as one of the largest employers in the area very seriously which is evident in our wide-ranging partnership working, dedication to our corporate social responsibilities and the importance we place on building relationships with our staff and community.
We believe in innovation to make improvements to clinical care. We are especially proud of our Academic Centre in Merthyr Tydfil which is helping to train future doctors in community medicine. If you come to work in Cwm Taf Morgannwg you will be guaranteed a warm Welsh welcome; opportunities for professional development and a clinical environment that innovates to improve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As per attached job description and person specification. The role will include a non-resident on-call element.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered with the GMC. Licensed to practice. On Specialist Register with GMC as a specialist in Emergency Medicine or eligible for CCT / CESR within 6 months of date of interview or a primary medical qualification.
Experience
* Evidence of an ability to develop effective working relationships, on an individual and multi-disciplinary basis with all levels of staff. Evidence of working with management and clinical colleagues to improve a service. Values partnership with other agencies. Evidence of teaching and training of post/undergraduate clinical staff / educational supervision of junior doctors. Evidence of initiating, progressing and completing audit and quality improvement.
Skills
* UK and NHS experience.
To work in the UK, all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship to obtain either a Health and Care visa or Skilled Worker visa, unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply should self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship by visiting Work in the UK. If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
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