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Main area
Stroke
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow
Contract
Fixed term: 6 months (With potential for extension)
Hours
Full time - 40 hours per week
Job ref
040-CF665-C
Employer
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
Employer type
NHS
Site
Grange University Hospital
Town
Cwmbran
Salary
£37,737 - £59,336 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
07/07/2024 23:59

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Senior Clinical Fellow in Stroke Medicine

NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow

If you are successful at interview for this post you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.

 

We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.

 

Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English

 

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

 

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.

Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process

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

The post involves working at the Grange University Hospital site and providing active medical input to patients admitted through the A&E department and Acute Medical Unit to the Hyper Acute Stroke Unit on ward B4. The post holder will be trained in the assessment and management of medical, psychological and social health of patients presenting to a Stroke Medical Intake. 

The appointee will be responsible to the Clinical Director who will be the post holders overall named Clinical Supervisor (CS) and will be expected to work closely with other medical teams based at the Grange University Hospital.

This post has become available after the Health Board opened the newly built Grange University Hospital. The new stroke model will be the centre of specialist and critical care and will be part of existing new stroke service redesign programme (SSRP), started in 2016 which involves centralisation of a 7 day hyper-acute stroke service.  The post is within the department of Stroke medicine. The post is open to anyone with General Internal Medicine/ stroke interest. This post will be based at the Grange University Hospital where the post holder will be involved in the management of acute care of stroke patients. The Department has close links and cross cover arrangements with Care Of the Elderly department.

Main duties of the job

The stroke team provides first line and comprehensive assessment of all suspected stroke patients. The service is supported by the front end stroke team which comprises of a consultant, specialty doctor or clinical fellow and clinical nurse specialist. The post holder may also support management of step down stroke and stroke rehabilitation patients at C5East. The post holder will do the assessment of stroke patients needing comprehensive work up under close supervision of Consultants

The stroke ward at GUH has 15 HASU beds including 3 TIA beds. The three TIA beds can be occupied by the General medicine patients and will be looked after by the Stroke Physicians. The HASU is supported by extra nursing staff and therapists and there is a daily consultant ward round 7 days a week including bank holidays. The stroke patients are admitted to the stroke ward from A&E where they stay for 3 days and then are moved to a less acute/rehabilitation centre (NHH, RGH and Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr). The appointee will be based at ward B4, GUH and is required to cover other hospitals if required.

Working for our organisation

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. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020.  Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This position involves Regulated Activity with adults 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

Please refer to the enclosed job description and information pack for the specific details of the role. 

Person specification

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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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dr Yaqoob Bhat
Job title
Clinical Director
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01633 2346652
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