Senior Clinic Fellow in Vascular Surgery

Job summary

Do you share our Health Board values; Caring for each other; Working together; Always improving? If so we would love for you to come and work for Swansea Bay University HB.

This post is at ST3+ level and the successful applicants will be part of the vascular on call rota at Morriston Hospital. There is ample time available for a suitable appointee to undertake research towards a higher degree if desired.

At present there are 10 Vascular surgeons serving Swansea site in Swansea Bay University Health Board. The majority of these surgeons have sessions in both Morriston and Singleton Hospitals as well as commitments in Hywel Dda health board but all major surgery and emergency intake occur on the Morriston site.

Swansea provides elective and emergency Vascular surgical services to Swansea and the Neath/Port Talbot area which amounts to a population of around 400,000.

The well established Vascular unit has a National reputation providing local and regional services.

Main duties of the job

You will provide a clinical service in conjunction with your colleagues under the direction of a Consultant Surgeon, which will include the responsibility for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness.

You will be required to contribute to the vascular inpatients, day cases and out patients, with an appropriate level of consultant supervision according to your level of experience.

You will be expected to be able to undertake simple and routine general surgical procedures independently.

You will be expected to work within existing clinical guidelines in the directorate.

About us

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.

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 South West Wales.

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, cosy 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. Swansea also has excellent sporting facilities including the Wales National pool and Swansea.com stadium home to the Ospreys and Swansea City Football Club.