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 to join a dynamic team of Cardiologists, based at the Cardiac Centre in Morriston Hospital.  We are looking for a visionary and hard-working candidate to join our department.  The post holder will join the interventional cardiology and structural teams within the Cardiac Centre, where all Cardiac inpatients are based. Post is fixed term for 12 months only.

The successful post holder will join existing colleagues on the SpR rota, support new and follow up patient clinics for TAVI and participate in the running of a fast paced, regional TAVI service within SBUHB.

We welcome candidates with a strong grounding in angioplasty and structural intervention.

The successful candidate will join the interventional cardiologists working at SBUHB to provide secondary cardiology care for the Swansea Bay patients and tertiary cardiac care for the population of Mid and West Wales. We place a great emphasis on continuous professional development and will actively support you in the achievement of personal goals.

Main duties of the job

The new appointee will work with the current team to support and develop the 10 Structural Interventional programme and participate in the SpR rota. The primary focus of the post will be to provide a first-rate outpatient, interventional and follow up service for patients with aortic valve disease:

i.            Cardiology assessment of acute cardiac admissions to the Cardiac Centre

ii.           Participate in an SpR rota

iii.          Deliver an outpatient review and follow up service for aortic valve intervention.

iv.          Manage in patients under the ‘TAVI team’

v.           Participate in the Cardiac MDT schedule.

vi.          The post holder will be encouraged to undertake clinical research in cardiology, and there is considerable scope for collaboration with colleagues and participation in ongoing research projects.

vii. Participation in the departmental clinical governance and audit program, multi-   disciplinary and educational meetings.

viii. Supervision and training of junior medical staff and undergraduate medical students.

The Primary PCI service treats approximately 400 STEMI calls per annum.  The TAVI service implants approximately 250 patients per annum. The clinic work load associated with this results in a clinic list of 6 new patients per list.

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.