Junior Clinical Fellow Emergency Medicine and Intensive Care Medicine

Job summary

CARDIFF & VALE UNIVERSITY HEALTH BOARDUNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALESEMERGENCY MEDICINE AND INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINEJunior Clinical Fellows

We are delighted to offer posts within Cardiff and Vale suitable for candidates who are keen to gain more experience in EM and ICM at a post foundation training level. These exciting posts will comprise of 6-month rotations in both the Critical Care Unit and the Emergency Unit within a tertiary Major Trauma Centre and are designed to increase clinical experience in these fields whilst strengthening CVs for further acute specialty applications such as the Acute Care Common Stem.

The post is available from 7th August 2024.

The University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff is the busiest Emergency Unit in Wales with 134,000 annual attendances of which 34,000 are paediatric. It is the main receiving hospital for trauma in South Wales. It has an excellent on-site trauma team and good links with Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine Retrieval and Transfer Service (EMRTS). The University Health Board is fully committed to being the designated Major Trauma Centre for South Wales, offering the full range of trauma and Emergency Services, including a dedicated Paediatric service.

Please read the individual job description for further details. Although these posts are full-time, consideration will be given to applicants who require flexible working arrangements.

Main duties of the job

Emergency Unit

The job within the EU will allow experience in areas such as resus, majors, paediatrics, minors and the ambulatory area. You will be expected to review patients and decide relevant investigations and treatment (if required) within the EU to facilitate a specialty referral or discharge into the community whilst being supposed by significant senior shop floor presence.

Dedicated shifts in resus and the paediatric area are rostered to allow dedicated exposure and increased clinical experience in these areas.

Critical Care Unit

The major part of training & service consists of assisting in the day-to-day management of patients within the Critical Care areas, resuscitation, establishing and performing cardiovascular and respiratory (and other organ system) monitoring and support, prescribing drugs and nutrition on a daily basis and keeping regular medical notes on up to 32 ICU patients.

The post offers unrivalled experience for any doctor who wishes to gain familiarity with intensive care and the post-operative management of major surgical problems, i.e. ideal for physicians, surgeons and anaesthetists. The post also offers exposure to HFOV, critical care echocardiography and critical care ultrasound.

There are daily consultant rounds, 3 infection teaching rounds per week, one radiolog teaching session per week and a protected daily teaching programme held weekly within the Directorate of Intensive Care.

About us

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 15,000 staff, providing over 100 specialist services. Working across 6 hospital sites, we have a diverse range of career opportunities to offer. Serving around 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, we are focussed on the health and care needs of our local population whilst working with our partners to develop regional services.

Our mission is"Caring for People, Keeping People Well",and ourvision is that every person's chance of leading a healthy life should be equal. As an organisation we are unashamedly ambitious for our population's health, rising to the challenges of today and tomorrow through our 10-year strategy, Shaping our Future Wellbeing. We are contributing to a healthier Wales with great emphasis placed on innovation and improvement, learning from around the world and leading the way in clinical research. Partnership working is strong at Cardiff and Vale, and we work closely with our staff and our community.

Cardiff, the thriving Welsh capital, is a fantastic city to live and work in with an abundance of sports, arts and cultural attractions. Situated to the west of Cardiff, the Vale of Glamorgan offers a combination of beautiful Welsh countryside and a dramatic natural coastline. Whether city life or rural living, Cardiffand the Vale offers the best of both worlds.