Senior Clinical Development Fellow

Job summary

Senior Clinical Development Fellow in Emergency Medicine

Duration: 6 months with potential extension

Full Time

Anticipated Start Date: August 2023

Based at The Grange University Hospital, Cwmbran, SE Wales

Do you want to want to develop your skills in Emergency Medicine? Do you want to work in a brand new purpose built critical care centre? Do you have interests in other areas aligned to Emergency Medicine which you would like to develop? Are you an enthusiastic, hard-working, willing to learn team player? Answered yes to all of these questions a Senior Clinical Development Fellow in Emergency Medicine in Aneurin Bevan University Health Board could be just right for you.

We have vacancies for the right Middle Grade Senior Clinical Fellow Doctors in the Emergency Department at the New Grange University Hospital, Cwmbran situated in the beautiful Gwent Valleys. This post would be ideal for those wishing to gain experience in Emergency Medicine at a higher level before considering further training either via the ST or CESR route.

This position involves Regulated Activity with children and adults as defined by the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act (amended by the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012) and a enhanced check including an adults and children's barred list check is required.

Applicants must be fully registered with the GMC and hold a Licence to Practice

Main duties of the job

Emergency Medicine in Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is undergoing rapid changes as part of the health board's Clinical Futures programme and response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Health Board's two Type 1 Emergency Departments have recently merged into a brand new department in the new specialist and critical care centre at the Grange University Hospital. The successful candidate would be expected to work across the health board's acute sites.

Emergency Medicine is consultant led with an emphasis on training for all members. The consultant body is made up of 24 consultants and one consultant nurse across the sites. This dynamic and enthusiastic team of Consultants believe in leading from the frontline and aim to provide outstanding care with a presence from 8am until midnight day seven days a week. They are supported by an excellent Middle Grade tier made up of ST4+ trainees, Speciality doctors and Senior Clinical Fellows and Junior (F2/CT level) doctors. The team are further complemented by Emergency Nurse Practitioners, Advanced Clinical Practitioners and Physicians Associates.

Although these Clinical Fellow posts are not recognised for training, they are afforded the same training opportunities, with full access to in house training. You will receive an intensive departmental induction, an Educational Supervisor, monthly teaching sessions and support to attend courses or exams that will further a career in Emergency Medicine.

About us

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. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.