Locum Consultant General Surgeon

We are looking to recruit a Locum Consultant in General Surgery. This is a fixed term post for 6 months. The successful candidate will be joining a Health Board wide compliment of 19 Consultants, 13 substantive and 6 NHS locum consultants. This team is responsible for the provision of emergency and elective General Surgical services with specialty/special interests in breast, colorectal, upper Gastrointestinal and Endoscopy. The main purpose of this role is to cover the emergency on call rota at Withybush General Hospital. To provide, with consultant colleagues (as appropriate) a service for General Surgery, with the support of developing a sub-speciality interest to the hospitals and community so designated with responsibility for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness.Main duties of the job Integral to the responsibilities of the post are the following requirements:- To ensure the provision and delivery of a quality and safe clinical service To provide effective leadership to all junior staff engaged in the specialty To sustain and develop teaching and research wherever appropriate To undertake all work in accordance with the health board's procedures and operating policies To conduct clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of the health board's service plans To maintain the confidence of business plans and development strategies formulated for the specialty or the Health board Core clinical expertise in General Surgery Endoscopy and Laparoscopic Upper GI Surgery Leadership and team building skills as well as working as part of a multidisciplinary team Supporting and training multidisciplinary teams Delivering care in the community alongside primary health care and social care teams You are expected to maintain your professional development for revalidation A teaching and training role for medical undergraduates and postgraduates Educational Supervisor role to Junior and SAS Level medical staff To undertake regular multidisciplinary clinical audit and provide evidence based Your job plan with consist of 10 sessions and will include Theatre, Endoscopy, Outpatients, Administration, SPA and Teaching. 2 sessions are allocated to covering the General Surgery on call 1 in 5 rota at Withybush Hospital.

Hywel Dda University Health Board is the planner and provider of NHS healthcare services for people in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and its bordering counties. Our 11,000 members of staff provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services for around 384,000 people across a quarter of the landmass of Wales. We do this in partnership with our three local authorities and public, private and third sector colleagues, including our volunteers, through:

• Four main hospitals: Bronglais General in Aberystwyth, Glangwili General in Carmarthen, Prince Philip in Llanelli and Withybush General in Haverfordwest
• Seven community hospitals: Amman Valley and Llandovery in Carmarthenshire; Tregaron, Aberaeron and Cardigan in Ceredigion; and Tenby and South Pembrokeshire Hospital Health and Social Care Resource Centre in Pembrokeshire
• 48 general practices (four of which are managed practices), 47 dental practices (including three orthodontic), 99 community pharmacies, 44 general ophthalmic practices (43 providing Eye Health Examination Wales and 34 low vision services) and 17 domiciliary only providers and 11 health centres