Job overview

This post will be joining a compliment of 34 Consultant Radiologists responsible for the provision of Radiological services to Swansea (in Morriston, Singleton and Neath Port Talbot Hospitals) with close links to Swansea Medical School, National Imaging academy of Wales  and the Institute of life sciences at Swansea University bringing plenty of opportunity for teaching and research.

This is a new post joining 3 existing head and neck radiologists. Swansea is the tertiary oncology centre, incorporating the South West Wales head and neck cancer service, generating large volumes of challenging and interesting work from 2 large adjoining health boards, working alongside specialist surgeons from ENT and maxillofacial surgery, as well as the Welsh Centre for burns and plastics. To facilitate this service WHSCC fund a mobile PET van on site in Singleton. 

There is also a newly established weekly rapid diagnostic centre for potential malignant neck lumps referred from primary care and based at Neath Port Talbot Hospital, led by consultant radiologists with the support of specialist nurses and a head and neck sonographer, with instant access to cross sectional imaging. 

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be expected to participate in the general on-call rota for Swansea, which is currently on a 1 in 17 basis, covering inpatient scanning at Morriston. They will also be taking part in a ‘hot-reporting’ rota covering urgent in-patient CT reporting. 

The successful applicant will attend head and neck MDTs on a rota. Head and neck interventional skills are  essential.

Access to ultrasound, fluoroscopy and CT Imaging guidance is available across all three sites. 

The Health Board has committed to enhancing Radiology provision on weekends. Currently, a ‘predictable on-call session’, i.e. a resident session, is offered each weekend day between 11pm and 3 pm in exchange for time back in lieu. This may change depending on the needs of the department.

Home Tele-Radiology is accessible via a laptop with VPN access, enabling MPR capabilities. Currently, there are 13 trainees on rotation in Swansea, which has facilitated a night shift of ST2-ST5 personnel covering on-call requests and reporting. Outsourcing is utilised for reporting CT body and MR spine when an ST2 is on-call overnight. A home working solution is provided where available.

There is a separate on-call rota for neuroradiology (currently 1:5/1:6) that covers MRI and provides support to the general radiologists who handle CT brain cases out of hours (with registrars).

Working for our organisation

We expect everyone that works for the Health Board, regardless of their role, to share and uphold our values in all that they do:

Caring for each other, in every human contact in all of our communities and each of our hospitals 

Working together, as patients, families, carers, staff and communities so that we always put patients first 

Always improving, so that we are at our best for every patient and for each other.

 Swansea Bay University Health Board has responsibility for the health of around 390,000 people in the Neath Port Talbot and Swansea areas, with a budget of around £1 billion and employing 12,500 people.    We are a University Health Board working in partnership with Swansea University, Swansea School of Medicine, the School of Health Science and the Institute of Life Science. The HB has three major hospitals providing a range of services: Morriston and Singleton hospitals in Swansea and Neath Port Talbot hospital in Baglan, Port Talbot.

Swansea is Wales' second largest city and sits on the five-mile sweep of Swansea Bay. An ideal base for exploring South-West Wales, there is also much on offer for visitors in Swansea itself. Swansea has a range of shops, cafes, great restaurants, art galleries as well as being able to offer good outdoor lifestyle with its beautiful coastline and beaches on the Gower Peninsula.