Specialist Grade in Stroke Medicine

Integrated Care System; Cwmbran; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health service provider in Wales seeks a qualified professional to join their stroke service team. You will provide high-level diagnosis and treatment in a supportive community hospital environment, while also taking part in comprehensive medical training and professional development opportunities. This role promises a fulfilling career path within a multi-disciplinary team and excellent work-life balance.

Benefits

Extensive training opportunities

Flexible working

Occupational health support

Qualifications

• Must hold or be eligible for full GMC registration.
• Experience in acute medical care preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide medical care for inpatients and participate in acute assessments.
• Supervise junior staff and participate in multidisciplinary meetings.
• Cover colleagues during leave for on-calls.

Job description

Make a Big Impact in Aneurin Bevan University Health Board Stroke Service.

You'll be an expert in Stroke care for our community, providing high-level diagnosis and treatment for stroke service.

Embrace a Close-Knit Community: Our hospital fosters a warm and supportive environment.

This is more than just a job; it's a chance to build a fulfilling career while living in a beautiful and welcoming community.

Main duties of the job

This post allows training opportunities stroke medicine in the Caerphilly locality. The post will be based between Grange University Hospital and Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr hospital.

ABUHB is an innovative Health Board packed with ambition and is an excellent place to start your career as well as providing fantastic opportunities to continue developing yourself professionally.

The successful candidate will have training access across the medical specialties and to a variety of accredited training courses, under the supervision of trainers. ABUHB will be flexible to the needs of individual candidates towards their career progression such as obtaining MRCP (UK) and CESR in line with the service requirements. Audit and QI projects will be a requirement of the post and we have close links with Cardiff University should you want to be involved in research.

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. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.

Job responsibilities

The main responsibilities of the post are effective and appropriate medical care of inpatients including acute assessment, participation in acute medical and frailty take, monitor and manage in-patients as well as contributing to outpatient and multidisciplinary meetings.

The post holder will be part of a large medical and multidisciplinary team working under direct consultant supervision; who are well established RCP trainers.

The post holder will also be required to provide prospective cover for colleagues during their Annual & Study Leave for on-calls and day time cover.

All clinical staff are accountable and responsible for their own clinical competence and should limit their actions to those for which are deemed competent. Clinical staff are also required to comply with the requirements of their professional organisations as per established norms.

All qualified staff have a responsibility to supervise unqualified/more junior staff and students on a day-to-day basis to ensure that patients receive appropriate care and that any untoward action is addressed.

This position involves Regulated Activity withadults as defined by the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act (amended by the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012) and the following checks will be undertaken following any conditional offer:

• Enhanced check with barred list information, including - an adults barred list check

Applicants must hold or be eligible to hold full registration and a licence to practice with the GMC

Person Specification

Qualifications

• As per person specification
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Experience

• As per person specification
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Personal Attributes

• As per person specification
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Skills & Abilities

• As per person specification
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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.