Job summary
- Main area
- Acute Medicine
- Grade
- Junior Clinical Fellow
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 110-MD309-0525
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Princess of Wales Hospital
- Town
- Bridgend
- Salary
- £43,821 - £57,650 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Junior Clinical Fellow Acute Medicine
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 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed
Job overview
Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend, South Wales
2 x Junior Clinical Fellow posts in Acute Medicine
Main duties of the job
There is a dedicated Acute Medical Unit (AMU) for GP referred patients with assessment space and a short stay inpatient area, including
integrated acute frailty template. 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, Gastroenterology, Care of the Elderly and Diabetes and
Endocrinology.
Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
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
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.
Although the posts are not recognised for training, participation in educational programmes, teaching, audit and quality improvement will be
encouraged and supported and dedicated SPA time is included.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
- Be eligible for full registration with, and hold a current licence to practise from, the GMC at the advertised post start date
- Be eligible to work in the UK
Experience
Essential criteria
- Have evidence of achievement of foundation competences from a UKFPO-affiliated foundation programme or equivalent, at the advertised start date in line with GMC standards/Good Medical Practice
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience within NHS
- Advanced Life Support Certificate from the Resuscitation Council UK or equivalent (as required to complete core medical competences) by intended start date.
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 not necessary
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr John Hounsell
- Job title
- Clinical Lead for Acute Medicine
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01656 754004
- Additional information
For an informal discussion about this opportunity, you are encouraged to contact Dr John Hounsell, Clinical Lead for Acute Medicine via Kathryn Kearney, Support Manager on 01656 754004 or email [email protected] or [email protected]
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