Consultant in Emergency Medicine

Job summary

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is looking for a dynamic individual to join our Emergency Department at the specialist critical care hospital, Grange University Hospital (GUH). The successful candidate will join a well-established team and will provide clinical and team leadership within a passionate and committed multi-disciplinary team. This currently comprises of 26 Consultants, 1 Associate Specialists, 7 Specialty Doctors, 10 Specialist Registrars, 23 junior doctors comprising ACCS, GPVTS, F2's, CT posts, 4 ST3 posts and Clinical Fellow posts. There is a Consultant Nurse, a team of ENP's and nursing staff with extended scope of practice and a team of ACPs and PAs on the GUH site. CPN led liaison psychiatry service within the Department.

This post will be principally based at the GUH, Cwmbran. However some sessions may be located at the peripheral Minor Injury Units at the Royal Gwent Hospital, Nevill Hall Hospital and Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr or in the ABUHB Flow Centre, Cwmbran. These post have been designed to enhance the Consultant presence in the new Department.

The successful candidates must possess excellent background knowledge in Emergency Medicine and an appropriate higher qualification (e.g. FRCEM).

Main duties of the job

The Department has recently been built as part of the new Grange University Hospital which opened in November 2021 -The Department consists of 8 Resus Bays, a 26-trolley Majors bay, 5 Assessment bays, and a co-located Children's Emergency Assessment Unit. The new extension will comprise a larger waiting room and dedicated ambulatory assessment and treatment area.

About us

The unit is a busy mixed urban/rural Department and expects to see 180,000 new patient attendances per year, with approximately half being at the Grange University Hospital site and half the surrounding minor injury units. 25% of attendances are within the paediatric age group. The co-location of the Children's Emergency Assessment Unit enables close working with our Child Health colleagues. The team working and friendly atmosphere ensures the efficacy of the Department. The Health Board has an excellent reputation regionally for providing experience of most things you will find in the 'Oxford Handbook' in a year - particularly in the cases that pass through our Resus room. There is an emphasis on teaching and an innovative scenario-based adult & paediatric resuscitation/simulation teaching is run by the ED/CAU/Anaesthetics with all relevant specialties attending. The Department enjoys an excellent reputation for Registrar training, with all the Consultants committed to the teaching and training of staff. The GUH site has simulation suite, which will be utilised regularly for training junior medical staff and in the Regional SpR training programme when hosted at GUH. The department also runs a Physician Response Unit in collaboration with the Welsh Ambulance services, now in its 10th year of operation this is one of pioneering Community Emergency Medicine services in the United Kingdom.