Job overview

We are looking for a Consultant Anaesthetist with an Interest in Regional Anaesthesia. The post will support the planned expansion of the Orthopaedic Planned Care Centre of Excellence at Neath Port Talbot, as well as the care of medically complex elective orthopaedic and emergency trauma patients at Morriston Hospital.

The successful candidate will join a team of 82 Consultants responsible for the provision of anaesthetic services across the Health Board. The post will be based at Morriston Hospital but will involve sessions at Neath Port Talbot Hospital and Singleton Hospital through planned lists (please see provisional job plan) and ‘flexible in year’ (FIY) sessions. 

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will be responsible for the provision of emergency and elective general anaesthesia to the population of SBUHB within the scope of practice reflected in the provisional ‘Job Plan’ (please see Job Description).

The on-call commitment will be to the hybrid General Rota at Morriston Hospital. This will include burns admissions out of hours and urgent burns surgery in-hours on the weekend. The on-call, out of hours, Consultant Rota is split into 2 tiers. The 1st on-call being the initial responder and the 2nd on-call, who will provide support within the health board, where deemed necessary by the 1st on-call and the clinical requirement at that time. The frequency of weekday on-calls will be 1:16. Weekend cover will be 1 in 8, split between resident ‘in hours’ and non-resident ‘out of hours’ work. 

The provisional job plan includes a ‘flexible in year’ component. These sessions are included in order to both support a candidates specialist interests as well as providing the department with the ability to facilitate availability against clinical need. The booking of flexible sessions will be by mutual agreement with appropriate notice. The flexible component is undertaken within areas of the consultant’s competence or sub-specialist interest across all sites.

Working for our organisation

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.  

Mental Health and learning Disabilities services are provided both in hospital settings (Cefn Coed Hospital, Swansea Caswell clinic and Taith Newydd at Glanrhyd Bridgend) and other community settings.  

We also have community hospital and primary care resource centres providing clinical services outside the main hospitals.   

The Health Board is part of A Regional Collaboration for Health (ARCH), which is a partnership with Hywel Dda UHB and Swansea University. Aimed at improving the wellbeing and wealth of Southwest Wales.