Locum Consultant in Acute Medicine

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Locum Consultant in Acute Medicine

The closing date is 26 February 2026

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 SDEC 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.

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

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 ) including selected activity within SDEC (Monday-Friday ) 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 ), 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:

• Telephone streaming of GP referrals to AMU, SDEC and (where more appropriate) advice regarding other acute clinical options
• Attendance at morning handover for medical on-call team to stream patients seen overnight into acute/COTE/cardio post take options
• Supervision of Acute Medical team members including activity within AMU and SDEC
• Supervision of the on-call medical team within the AMU and ED during the consultant working hours outlined above

English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply

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 15000 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

For a full job description and person specification please refer to the attachments that are included within this advert. Thank you

Person Specification Qualifications

• Registered with GMC
• Licensed to practice
• On Specialist Register with GMC as a specialist in Acute Medicine and eligible for CCT within 6 months of date of interview and have passed exit exam or a statement of eligibility for registration issued by PMETB or a primary medical qualification and recognized specialist qualification from a European Member State which will allow direct entry to the GMC Specialist Register
• MRCP
• On Specialist Register with GMC as a specialist in GIM
• Member of Society of Acute Medicine (SAM)

Experience

• Evidence of working effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team including management
• Evidence of teaching and training of post/undergraduate clinical staff
• Evidence of initiating, progressing and completing audit/QI
• Experience of research

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.

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