Main area Anaesthetics Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 10 sessions per week (Part time hours will be considered) Job ref 130-NPTSSG10045S
Employer Swansea Bay University Health Board Employer type NHS Site Morriston Hospital Town Swansea Salary £110,240 - £160,951 per annum, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 17/11/2025 23:59 Interview date 21/01/2026
Consultant Anaesthetist with interest in Major General Anaesthesia
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
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.
Job overview
We are looking for a Consultant Anaesthetist with an Interest in Major General Anaesthesia. This post will be based at Morriston Hospital and will support general lists at the Planned Care Centre of Excellence at Singleton Hospital, as well as the care of medically complex orthopaedic and urological patients in 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.
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, cozy 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 liberty stadium home to the Ospreys and Swansea City football club.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more details in relation to this post, please click on the supporting documents section to find the full job description and person specification. These are available bilingually, in both English and Welsh.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered with the GMC
* Licensed to practice
* CCT in Anaesthesia (or expected within 6 months of interview) or on Specialist Register with GMC (or expected within 6 months of interview)
* Advanced Training Module in Major General Anaesthesia as part of CCT or equivalent experience and expertise in Major General Anaesthesia
* Advanced Training Module in Airway Anaesthesia as part of CCT or equivalent experience and expertise in Advanced Airway Anaesthesia
* Experience in anaesthesia for Burns patients
* Teaching qualification/Higher qualification in medical education
Experience
* Evidence of an ability to develop effective working relationships, on an individual and multi-disciplinary basis with all levels of staff (”Working Together”)
* Evidence of working with management and clinical colleagues to improve a service (“Always Improving”)
* Values partnership with other agencies (”Working Together”)
* Evidence of teaching and training of post/undergraduate clinical staff
* Evidence of initiating, progressing and completing audit
* Development and commissioning of anaesthetic services
* Evidence of research in Anaesthesia
Skills
* Effective leadership: ability to take responsibility and demonstrate leadership when appropriate
* Understands the importance of effective Team Working with all levels of staff, take time to listen, understand and involve people; receptive to appropriate change.
* Understands and can apply the principles of Prudent Healthcare
* Excellent interpersonal skills – ability to communicate effectively (written and verbal) with patients, colleagues, relatives and staff; communicate openly and honestly and explain things clearly
* Understands information systems and technology
* Demonstrates learning in Improvement science and methodology, ability and drive to use information and experience to improve the service.
Personal Attributes
* Flexible and adaptable to competing demands with the ability to work effectively under pressure and cope with setbacks
* Ability to undertake on-call
* A commitment to continuous improvement, with a positive attitude, seeks out learning, and continually develops skills and the service
* Empathy and sensitivity: ability to listen, understand and involve people; see people as individuals
* Ability to take a lead role in service development
Swansea Bay University Health Board is committed to supporting its staff and processes to fully embrace the need for bilingualism thereby enhancing service users experience. In our commitment to increase the number of staff able to communicate in Welsh with patients and professionals, we would particularly welcome applications from Welsh speakers.
Equality remains at the centre of the Health Boards policy-making, service delivery and employment practices. We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race, religion, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and applications are welcomed from persons with disabilities. A disability will not prejudice your application. If you are unable to submit your application in the requested format because of a disability please contact the Recruitment Team, who will agree a more suitable way for you to apply. All disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria listed in the Person Specification will be invited to interview.
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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.
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