Job Description

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.



The post-holder will work at ST3 equivalent level and duties include trauma and elective theatre sessions, fracture and elective clinics, managing trauma and elective orthopaedic inpatients, assessing and reviewing emergency trauma admissions. The post will consist of a combination of service provision for the adult trauma and elective inpatient service and will be supported in taking study leave for professional development. An educational supervisor will be allocated to help support and mentor the post-holder both clinically and with career development



You will provide a clinical service, with colleagues, which will include the responsibility for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness.



Working with your colleagues and the multi-professional team you will have continuing responsibility for the well-being of all patients under your care. You will be required to adhere to the principles of good medical practice as laid down by the General Medical Council.



You will be required to participate in the Health Board's risk management process, clinical governance and any other healthcare governance activities within the department, the delivery unit and the Health Board. Adherence to the Caldicott Principles of information governance is mandatory.



You will participate in the on call rotas with a rotation between Neath Port Talbot and Morriston Hospitals, with prospective cover.



You will adhere to all policies which cover radiation exposures as currently outlined in IRMER regulations.



The Health Board is committed to meet its obligations to minimize infection. You will be required to comply with current procedures for the control of infection, including dress-code, to challenge non-compliance by colleagues, and to attend training in infection control provided by the Health Board.



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.



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.