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.
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 shortlisted for this post, you will be contacted via the email account you used to apply, so 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.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process.
The salary scale above has been agreed as part of the NHS Agenda for Change pay award for 2024/2025 and will be implemented in November 2024, backdated to 1st April 2024 where applicable.
Job overview
As a senior employee of the Health Board, the postholder will work in close cooperation with, and support other clinical, medical professional, and managerial colleagues in providing high-quality healthcare to the Health Board’s patients.
Integral to the responsibilities of the post are the following requirements:
1. To ensure the provision of a first-class clinical service.
2. To undertake all work in accordance with the Health Board’s procedures and operating policies.
Main duties of the job
1. To contribute actively to the content areas of the 1000 Lives Plus Campaign and any other subsequent patient safety campaign.
2. To work within the financial and other restraints decided upon by the Health Board. Additional expenses of any kind will not be committed without the approval of the appropriate manager/budget holder.
3. Observe the rules, policies, procedures, and standards of Aneurin Bevan Local Health Board together with all relevant statutory and professional obligations.
4. Observe and maintain strict confidentiality of personal information relating to patients and staff.
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
Clinical
1. To provide, with clinical colleagues (as appropriate), a service in Ophthalmology to the hospitals so designated with responsibility for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of illness.
2. Continuing responsibility for the care of patients in your charge in liaison with consultant colleagues and for the proper functioning of the department in line with the Operational Policy and Strategic Plan (as amended from time to time).
3. Requirement to participate in medical audit and in continuing medical education in ways which are acceptable to the Health Board.
4. All clinical staff are accountable and responsible for their own clinical competence and should limit their actions to those for which they are deemed competent. Clinical staff are also required to comply with the requirements of their professional organisations regarding supervision.
5. The postholder will participate in a full shift working pattern consistent of 8 DCC's and 2 SPA's.
Quality and Standards
1. To be familiar with and actively promote adherence to the regulatory framework including NICE and National Service Framework Guidance and to actively promote professional standards “The Duties of a Doctor.”
2. To undertake all work in accordance with the Health Board’s procedures and operating policies.
3. To work actively to reduce unintended harm to patients.
4. To adhere to the Health Board’s Clinical Incident Policy.
Personal Development
1. To participate in an annual Job Planning Review process.
2. To participate in the Health Board’s Annual Appraisal process.
Management
1. To work within the financial and other restraints decided upon by the Health Board. Additional expenses of any kind will not be committed without the approval of the appropriate manager/budget holder.
2. Subject to the Terms and Conditions of Service, an expectation to observe policies and procedures of the Health Board drawn up in consultation with the profession where they involve clinical matters.
3. Pursuit of the local and national employment and personnel policies and procedures in the management of employees of the Health Board.
4. Be responsible, with management support, for their own personal development and to actively contribute to the development of colleagues.
5. Observe and maintain strict confidentiality of personal information relating to patients and staff. The postholder has a general duty of care for their own health, safety, and wellbeing and that of work colleagues, visitors, and patients within the hospital. This statutory duty is in addition to any specific risk management or clinical governance accountabilities associated with the post.
Person specification
Qualifications
* As per person specification.
Experience
* As per person specification.
Personal Attributes
* As per person specification.
Skills & Abilities
* As per person specification.
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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