Job summary
- Main area
- Burns and Plastic Surgery
- Grade
- LAS ST Higher - Locum Appointment for Service Specialty Trainee Higher
- Contract
- 6 months (Fixed term as covering Training vacancy wef wef 06/08/2025 – 22/12/2025 only)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week (Full shift Basic contract 40 hours plus additional hours for on call rota (Average 48 hours per week))
- Job ref
- 130-12998918-0525
- Employer
- Swansea Bay University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Morriston Hospital
- Town
- Swansea
- Salary
- £1,942.80 per week paid monthly inc on call banding supp
- Closing
- 04/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
LAS ST Higher (ST3+) in Burns and Plastic Surgery
LAS ST Higher - Locum Appointment for Service Specialty Trainee Higher
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.
The Welsh Centre for Burns & Plastic Surgery at Morriston Hospital are looking for applications from for a LAS ST Higher (ST3+) doctor to cover a vacant post wef 06/08/2025 – 22/12/2025 in the first instance.
The post is not recognised for training but the experience will be comparable to that of a ST Higher and participation in educational programmes, audit and research will be encouraged and supported.
The Welsh Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery in Morriston is regarded as one of the premier training centres for plastic surgery training in the UK with close links to the academic plastic surgery research unit Recon Regen and Swansea University Medical School.
The post would be ideal for an ambitious trainee looking to gain further experience in plastic surgery in preparation for a future career in plastic surgery or related specialty.
This is a full time LAS ST Higher post participating on the Full shift rota. The plastic surgery service provides outreach services to nearly all the acute hospitals in S Wales, serving a population of 2.3M people. We are the only providers of plastic surgery located in Wales; the population of North Wales receiving their services from units in North West England.
Main duties of the job
The facilities available in the Welsh Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery are some of the best in the UK, with 3 large operating theatres, dedicated plastic surgery trauma theatre, plastic surgery specialised observation ward (PSMU), an adult elective plastic surgery ward, an adult admissions unit with 18 beds, children’s beds and a paediatric HDU for tertiary surgical services. There is a plastic surgical outpatient and dressings suite and dedicated occupational, physio and speech & language therapy departments. The burns centre is exceptional, with 2 dedicated operating theatres; a 10 bed burns ITU/HDU, a 10 bed adult low dependency/ rehabilitation ward for adults, a 10 bed children’s ward and also rehabilitation and outreach services. There is a dedicated Plastics Surgery Treatment Centre located adjacent to the elective ward which provides planned day case treatment via 2 operating rooms. The Clinical Plastic Surgery Unit has recently collaborated with Swansea University to form The Reconstructive Surgery & Regenerative Medicine Research Unit (ReconRegen). Located across two main sites, The Institute of Life Science at Swansea University & The European Centre for Nanohealth (Wales premier purpose-built £50million medical research facility) and a research suite at The Welsh Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery (ABM University health Board).
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
Essential criteria
- MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
- Be eligible for full registration with, and hold a current licence to practise from, the GMC at intended start date
Desirable criteria
- ALS or ATLS or CCrISP
- MRCS
Clinical Skills
Essential criteria
- Capacity to apply sound clinical knowledge and judgement to problems
- Ability to prioritise clinical need
- Demonstrates appropriate technical and clinical competence and evidence of the development of diagnostic skills and clinical judgement
- Validated logbook documentation of surgical exposure to date
Desirable criteria
- A minimum of 6 months experience in Plastic Surgery by time of application –
Academic Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates understanding of the basic principles of audit, clinical risk management and evidence-based practice
- Understanding of basic research principles, methodology and ethics, with a potential to contribute to research
- Evidence of participation in audit
- Evidence of contributing to teaching and learning of others
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of relevant academic and research achievements, e.g. degrees, prizes, awards, distinctions, publications, presentations, other achievements
- Evidence of participation in risk management and/or clinical/laboratory research
Personal Skilla
Essential criteria
- Communication written
- Evidence of Problem solving
- Managing others and team involvement
- • Capacity to work effectively in a multi-disciplinary team
- • Demonstrate leadership
- Organisation and planning
- Values
Commitment to Specialty – Learning & Personal Development
Essential criteria
- shows realistic insight into Plastic Surgery and the personal demands of a commitment to surgery
- Demonstrates knowledge & commitment to own development
- Shows critical and enquiring approach to knowledge acquisition, commitment to selfdirected learning and a reflective/analytical approach to practice
Desirable criteria
- Achievements relevant to plastic surgery, including elective or other experience
- Attendance at, or participation in, national and international, departmental, regional and online meetings relevant to plastic surgery
- Attendance at relevant surgical courses
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 desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jonathan Cubitt
- Job title
- Consultant Plastic Surgeon
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01792 702222
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