Job summary
The Emergency Department (ED) is a small-medium friendly department seeing approximately 64,000 adult and paediatric patients per year.
The rota is an extremely flexible annualised rota to ensure sustainable working and good work life balance. A full-time consultant works 10 sessions per week with 7 clinical sessions and 3 SPA sessions. Each Consultant has a key role to play in the department as part of their non-clinical sessions and we are looking for someone to join our happy team.
Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Main duties of the job
To 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. In partnership with clinical and managerial colleagues, you will also have responsibility for the safe, efficient and effective functioning of the services in which you work in line with the values, operational policies and integrated medium term plan (IMTP) of the Health Board.
About us
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Providing a clinical service, including responsibility for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness
- Continuing responsibility for the well-being of all patients under your care; allowing for proper delegation to, and training of staff
- Responsible for the safe, efficient and effective functioning of the services in which you work
- Participating in an annualised rota which will encompass clinical shop floor sessions, on call commitments, and patient-related administration
- Making a significant contribution to the service and specialty within the Health Board through active participation in the clinical structure
- Acting as Educational Supervisor for those assigned to you
- Delivering departmental teaching for the multi-disciplinary staff groups
- Participating in the Health Board's risk management process, clinical governance, and any other healthcare governance activities within the department, the directorate, the hospital and the health board
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Providing a clinical service, including responsibility for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness
- Continuing responsibility for the well-being of all patients under your care; allowing for proper delegation to, and training of staff
- Responsible for the safe, efficient and effective functioning of the services in which you work
- Participating in an annualised rota which will encompass clinical shop floor sessions, on call commitments, and patient-related administration
- Making a significant contribution to the service and specialty within the Health Board through active participation in the clinical structure
- Acting as Educational Supervisor for those assigned to you
- Delivering departmental teaching for the multi-disciplinary staff groups
- Participating in the Health Board's risk management process, clinical governance, and any other healthcare governance activities within the department, the directorate, the hospital and the health board
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Full GMC registration with a licence to practice
- On specialist register with GMC as a specialist in Emergency Medicine or eligible for CTT / CESR within 6 months
- Eligibility to live and work in the UK
Desirable
- Sub-specialty Paediatric Emergency Medicine
Knowledge
Essential
- Evidence of an ability to develop effective working relationships 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
Essential
- Effective leadership
- Understands the importance of effective team working with all levels of staff
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Demonstrates learning in improvement science and methodology; ability to drive and use information and experience to improve the service
- Understands information systems and technology
- All clinical skills in keeping with current RCEM curriculum
Commitment to Professional Development
Essential
- Engages with appraisal
- Engages with reflective practice
- Committed to continuous learning and personal development
- Ability to learn from feedback
Desirable
- Understands the principle of research
- Evidence of research relevant to specialty
- Experience in leadership and management
Other
Essential
- Ability to undertake on-call
Desirable
- Ability to speak or desire to learn Welsh
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Full GMC registration with a licence to practice
- On specialist register with GMC as a specialist in Emergency Medicine or eligible for CTT / CESR within 6 months
- Eligibility to live and work in the UK
Desirable
- Sub-specialty Paediatric Emergency Medicine
Knowledge
Essential
- Evidence of an ability to develop effective working relationships 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
Essential
- Effective leadership
- Understands the importance of effective team working with all levels of staff
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Demonstrates learning in improvement science and methodology; ability to drive and use information and experience to improve the service
- Understands information systems and technology
- All clinical skills in keeping with current RCEM curriculum
Commitment to Professional Development
Essential
- Engages with appraisal
- Engages with reflective practice
- Committed to continuous learning and personal development
- Ability to learn from feedback
Desirable
- Understands the principle of research
- Evidence of research relevant to specialty
- Experience in leadership and management
Other
Essential
- Ability to undertake on-call
Desirable
- Ability to speak or desire to learn Welsh
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
