A Great Place to Live and Work
Choose Cardiff and Vale for your NHS career
When you choose Wales for your medical career you choose superb facilities, an innovative health service, a supportive environment and well organised training schemes. You choose a diverse country that will give you a great lifestyle as you take the next step in your medical career.
Take a look at Wales The Smart Choice website and see how you can work for Wales and how Wales can work for you.
Why Choose Cardiff?
Cardiff really is a city of contrasts. A castle with 1900 years of history stands alongside the modern St Davids Dewi Sant Shopping Centre and the iconic Principality Stadium.
Cardiff has plenty of green space and public parks, and is surrounded by outstanding natural beauty like the Brecon Beacons National Park, Swansea Gower Peninsula and the picturesque Vale of Glamorgan.
For those seeking culture, there is easy access to the National Museum and Gallery Cardiff, the Museum of Welsh Life and the Millennium Arts Centre, home of the Welsh National Opera.
Housing is reasonably priced, and our schools offer a high standard of education and facilities.
With a huge array of exciting things to do and see, Cardiff really does have it all.
Find out more about living in Cardiff
The Vale of Glamorgan
Situated to the west of Cardiff, the Vale of Glamorgan offers a mixture of gentle rolling hills, charming towns and villages, and a dramatic natural coastline which includes part of the Glamorgan Heritage Coast.