Locum Consultant in Emergency Medicine

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

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 8 clinical sessions and 2 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.

This post is fixed term for up to 12 months to cover maternity leave.

English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Main duties of the job

You will 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.

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 15,000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.

Job responsibilities

You will be required to maintain a licence to practice through revalidation, to undergo satisfactory annual appraisal using the all Wales online Medical Appraisal Scheme (MARS) and to formulate a Personal Development Plan, in conjunction with the Clinical lead, to identify training and development needs. You will be expected to participate in sufficient personal and professional development to fulfil Royal College and GMC requirements.

You will adhere to all policies which cover radiation exposures as currently outlined in IRMER regulations. The Health Board is committed to meet its obligations to minimize infection. You will be required to comply with current procedures for the control of infection, including dress-code, to challenge non-compliance by colleagues, and to attend training in infection control provided by the Health Board.

You will also teach and train medical undergraduates in line with the Undergraduate training programme. Participate actively in the department's undergraduate teaching programme. Welcome medical students into learning environments with specific approval of any patients involved. Engage and involve medical students in your clinical activities, where possible and appropriate. Provide informal and bedside teaching to undergraduate medical students where appropriate, particularly during ward rounds, in the emergency department, during outpatient clinics and during operations and procedures. Give feedback to medical students. Participate in undergraduate examinations, particularly clinical examinations for Swansea and Cardiff medical students if requested to do so. Be responsible to the honorary lecturer and honorary senior lecturer for the purpose of undergraduate medical education. There will be opportunities for the successful candidate to develop a specific teaching.

Person Specification Qualifications and Eligibility

• Full GMC Registration with a license to practice - E
• On specialist register with GMC as a specialist in Emergency Medicine or eligible for CCT/CESR within 6 months - E
• FRCEM - E
• Eligibility to work and live in the UK - E

Knowledge and Experience

• Evidence of an ability to develop effective working relationships, on an individual and multi-disciplinary basis with all levels of staff - E
• Evidence of working with management and clinical colleagues to improve a service - E
• Values partnership with other agencies - E
• Evidence of teaching and training of post/undergraduate clinical staff / educational supervision of junior doctors - E
• Evidence of initiating, progressing and completing audit and quality improvement - E

Skills and Ability

• Effective leadership; ability to take responsibility and demonstrate leadership when appropriate - E
• Understands the importance of effective Team Working with all levels of staff, take time to listen, understand and involve people; receptive to appropriate change - E
• Excellent interpersonal skills - ability to communicate effectively (written and verbal) with patients, colleagues, relatives and staff; communicate openly and honestly and explain things clearly - E
• Demonstrates learning in Improvement science and methodology, ability and drive to use information and experience to improve the service - E
• Understands information systems and technology - E
• All clinical skills in keeping with current RCEM curriculum - E

Commitment and Professional Development

• Engages with appraisal - E
• Engages with reflective practice - E
• Committed to continuous learning and personal development - E
• Ability to learn from feedback - E
• Understands the principles of research - D
• Evidence of research relevant to specialty - D
• Experience in leadership and management - D

Other

• Ability to undertake on-call - E
• Occupational Health Clearance - E
• Willing to work across all Health Board sites if required - E
• Ability to speak or desire to learn Welsh - D

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.