Employer: Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Employer type: NHS
Site: Royal Glamorgan Hospital
Town: Llantrisant
Salary: £106,000 - £154,760 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 12/01/2025 23:59
Consultant General Surgeon, Benign Upper GI Sub Speciality Interest
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Job overview
This post will join the team of consultants responsible for the provision of General Surgical services to the University Health Board in Cwm Taf Morgannwg. The consultant will be based at Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant, but may be required to travel and work at other sites across the organisation.
The post will be required to share with consultant colleagues in the responsibility of providing outpatient and inpatient services for the local population and in doing so, foster excellent working relationships within and outside the General Surgical department, including medical, nursing, secretarial and support staff, General Practitioners, and management teams. The new appointee will be supporting the upper GI MDT and will be one of the link surgeons responsible for referral of upper GI cancer patients to tertiary centre (Cardiff and Vale).
The post will be part of the consultant on call rota on a 1:8 basis (1:8 Royal Glamorgan Hospital, 1:8 Princess of Wales Hospital) with a 10-session job plan with enhanced payment for the on-call commitment.
Will be encouraged to develop special interests complementary to the existing Upper GI consultants and should be competent in both open and laparoscopic approaches. Expected to work within a team of consultants providing specialist care for patients with emergency general, urgent and elective UGI disease. Experience and training of a CCT accredited doctor on the Specialist Register.
Main duties of the job
Applications are invited for a Consultant General Surgeon, Benign Upper GI Sub Speciality Interest. The successful candidate will join the existing General Surgical Department at Royal Glamorgan Hospital. The post will have a flexible session programme with a general surgical emergency ‘on call’ commitment 1:8.
The post has been created to provide benign Upper GI service with emergency surgery. The successful applicant will be expected to cover a week on call as part of the emergency surgeon role and will be expected to provide Upper GI services during their non on call weeks.
Clinical Sessions include:
* Theatre Sessions
* Ward Rounds
* Pre Operative Assessment
* Post Operative Assessment
* On-call
Supporting Professional Activity:
* Research
* Clinical Audit and Risk Management
* Administration
* Education and training
Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
The interview dates are Feb 12th & Feb 18th 2025.
Working for our organisation
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 15,000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job Description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents.
Person specification
Qualifications
* MBChB/MBBS or equivalent
* FRCS
* GMC Registered
Experience & Training
* Evidence of ability to take full and independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients undergoing Surgery
* Evidence of high level of skill in teaching medical, nursing and other professional colleagues in formal and informal modes
* Evidence of active involvement in risk management
* Evidence of personal involvement in management and administrative roles in health care
Knowledge
* Academic achievements / evidence of familiarity with research methods which have resulted in publications in peer reviewed journals or thesis
Disposition
* Good communication and empathy skills with patients
* Evidence of willingness to participate in a multi-disciplinary team environment to provide an integrated service
* Ability to work as a member of a team, both through communication and sharing workload
* Ability to cope with stressful situations including clinical crises
* Ability to prioritise and organise workload, co-ordinate staff and lead a team
* Evidence of a clear understanding of principles and practice of involving patients in all aspects of care
To work in the UK, all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship to obtain either a Health and Care visa or Skilled Worker visa, unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply should self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship by visiting Work in the UK. If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Jessica Dowden
Job title: Operational Support Manager
Email address: Jessica.dowden@wales.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 01443 443443
Additional information: Mubashir Mulla - Mubashir.mulla2@wales.nhs.uk
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