Posted 14/10/2024
£100,000 - £146,000 per annum
Are you looking to work in a hospital that is committed to providing excellent Acute Care? Do you want to…
Join a strong team of forward thinking, dynamic and enthusiastic Acute Care consultants, committed to excellence?
The team of Consultants in Acute Medicine provides a pivotal role in providing timely access to emergency medical care for the population. There is a dedicated Acute Medical Unit (AMU) for GP referred patients with assessment space and a short stay inpatient area. The team also runs the Ambulatory Care Unit which has outpatient and trolley-based areas for assessment and treatment. The team also provides support to other medical staff in managing patients referred to medicine within the Emergency Department.
You will work closely with colleagues in Acute, General and Emergency medicine to provide support to an unselected medical take. There is close support from medical specialties including Respiratory, Stroke Medicine, Cardiology, Care of the Elderly and Diabetes and Endocrinology.
There is on site support from the full range of Medical and Acute Surgical specialties as well as Radiology, Obstetrics, Gynaecology, Intensive Care, Haematology and Orthopaedics.
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.
The Consultants in Acute Medicine manage the Acute Medical Unit (Monday-Friday 0800-2000) including selected activity within the Ambulatory Care Unit (Monday–Friday 0900-1700) and lead the development of acute care pathways for a wide variety of clinical conditions. We also oversee daytime senior review of new medical referrals in ED (Monday-Friday 0900-1700), and a portion of the overnight intake in ED requiring morning ‘post-take’ assessment (except cardiology and COTE patients which have separate ‘post take’ work streams as defined at morning handover)
The main responsibilities and duties include:
English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply
Interview date: 27th November 2024
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 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.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board provides primary, community, hospital and mental health services to the 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
At Cwm Taf Morgannwg providing great health care to our community is our number one priority. Our 65 – 84 and 85+ age groups are projected to have the largest increase by 2036, when an estimated one in four people in Wales will be aged 65 and over. These projections will have significant implications for the way in which we design and provide our increasingly integrated health and social care services, so that we can help the people living in our communities to live long and healthy lives, free from the limiting effects of multiple chronic conditions.
At Cwm Taf Morgannwg we believe in innovation to make improvements to clinical care. We are especially proud of our Academic Centre in Merthyr Tydfil, which is helping to train future doctors in community medicine.
Navigation Park, Unit 3 Ynysmeurig House, Abercynon,
Mountain Ash CF45 4SN
Navigation Park,
Abercynon, CF45 4SN
Abercynon,
Mountain Ash CF45 4SN