Job summary
- Main area
- Rheumatology
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor
- Contract
- Permanent: 6 sessions per week
- Hours
- Part time - 6 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 130-5143631-090625
- Employer
- Swansea Bay University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Neath Port Talbot Hospital
- Town
- Port Talbot
- Salary
- £59,175 - £95,400 Per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialty Doctor in Rheumatology
NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor
OUR VALUES AND BEHAVIOURS
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
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.
Applications are invited for a dynamic, forward-thinking Specialty Doctor to provide support to our Consultants and work within the Rheumatology Department at Swansea Bay University Health Board
The Rheumatology Service is hosted by Neath Port Talbot Singleton Delivery Group. The Unit is led by a Service Director, a Medical Director and a Nurse Director.
Rheumatology Services are provided principally at three hospitals, Morriston, Singleton Hospital and Neath Port Talbot Hospital. Outpatient activity is undertaken in all sites with a Day Unit based at Port Talbot Hospital and the DXA Bone Scanner located in Singleton Hospital.
This job is a permanent role, contracted for 6 sessions per week, working 9am – 5pm and will be based at Neath Port Talbot Hospital with cross cover required at Morriston Hospital.
The successful applicant will be joining a team of 4 consultants, 1 registrar and 1 SHO. The team has 6 clinical nurse specialists, a Directorate Manager and Service Manager.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be required to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary Clinical Team to promote the safety and well-being of the patients, under the supervision of the Consultant Neil Mo.
The service works closely with our partner organisations, both statutory and voluntary, and has established links with local General Practitioners.
The provisional work programme for this post is attached as Appendix 1.
This post is covered by the National Health Service Terms & Conditions of Service Specialty Doctor (Wales). Details of these may be obtained from the Medical HR Department.
There is an extensive academic and teaching programme and you will be expected to participate in this.
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.
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.
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.
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
Essential criteria
- Full GMC Registration with a license to practice
- Primary MBBS or equivalent
- Certification or instructor status in ATLS
- shall have completed at least four years’ full-time postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained on a part-time or flexible basis) at least two of which will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty or as a fixed term specialty trainee in a relevant specialty; or shall have equivalent experience and competencies.
Desirable criteria
- Further relevant degree/diploma/teaching qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Basic training in GIM and Rheumatology and having attained initial competencies
- Basic training in ICM and attained initial competencies
- Evidence of working effectively as a part of a multidisciplinary team
- Commitment to team approach and multi-disciplinary working
- Liaison with other agencies
- Teaching and training of post/undergraduate medical staff
- Evidence of participation in, progressing and completing audit
Desirable criteria
- Experience of research in Rheumatology
- Previous experience of working in the NHS/experience of NHS working practices and systems.
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Understanding of clinical risk management and clinical governance
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Welsh language skills are not necessary
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Neil Mo
- Job title
- Clinical Lead/ Rheumatology Consultant
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01639 862804
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