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Job summary

Main area
Planned Care
Grade
Junior Clinical Fellow
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 40 hours per week (On-call rota)
Job ref
110-MD157-0724
Employer
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Employer type
NHS
Site
Princes of Wales Hospital
Town
Brdigend
Salary
£40,397 - £53,443 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
06/08/2024 23:59

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Junior Clinical Fellow - General Surgery & Trauma and Orthopaedics

Junior Clinical Fellow

We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000.  We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.

Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.

We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.

Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.

All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.

Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the  living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until  the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen for two Junior Clinical Fellow vacancies at the Princess of Wales Hospital. The posts will cover General Surgery and Trauma and Orthopaedics on a 6 month rotation for the duration of your appointment.

The post will be required to support the delivery of inpatient and emergency services for the local population and in doing so foster excellent working relationships within and outside the specialist area, including medical, nursing, secretarial and support staff, General Practitioners and Management Teams. The post will be predominantly ward based.

English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply

Main duties of the job

This is a permanent position within the Planned Care service Group at the Princess of Wales Hospital, the successful candidate will join a repeating surgical rotation compromising of 6 months in General Surgery and 6 months in Trauma and Orthopaedics. This is an exciting opportunity to join a team of innovative surgeons and junior doctors within the Princess of Wales Hospital covering Upper and Lower GI and General Surgery and Trauma and Orthopaedics.  Both services currently provide a service in the Princess of Wales Hospital and in the Neath Port Talbot Hospital. The Neath Port Talbot Hospital is part of Swansea Bay UHB (previously known as Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board).  The service provided to the Neath Port Talbot is under a Service Level Agreement.  

Currently all emergency and major elective work will be undertaken at the Princess of Wales Hospital.  All other work (outpatient, diagnostic, theatre) can be undertaken at either site or across the Health Board. 

 You will participate on the 1:14 joint surgical oncall rota working long days including weekends as well nights on-call covering all surgical specialities..

You will provide advice to clinicians in hospital and primary care, originating either from telephone calls or ward referrals.

In exceptional circumstances it may also be necessary to undertake duties at other locations with the Health Board. 

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Full duties and responsibilities of the role are included on the attached job description and Person Specification.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • 4 years full-time postgraduate training (or part-time equivalent), at least 2 of which will be in a specialty training programme

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Relevant Experience for the role
Desirable criteria
  • NHS Experience

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Age positiveStop Smoking Wales is the NHS Smoking Cessation Service in WalesMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerHyderus o ran anabledd crflogwrAccredited Living Wage EmployerWelsh logo for Armed Force Bronze Award for Cym Taf UHBAccredited Living Wage EmployerCore principlesPrentisiaethau Apprenticeships

Applicant requirements

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.

Welsh language skills are desirable

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Mukund Deglurkar
Job title
Clinical Lead - Trauma and Orthopaedics
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01656 752752
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