Job summary
- Main area
- Plastic Surgery
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow
- Contract
- 6 months (Fixed term for 6 months due to funding)
- 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
- 130-20491947-0625
- Employer
- Swansea Bay University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Morriston Hospital
- Town
- Swansea
- Salary
- £43,821 - £68,330 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
SCF- BCN/BAPRAS Breast and Lymphoedema Microsurgery Fellow
NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow
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 the post of ‘BCN/BAPRAS Breast and Lymphoedema Microsurgery Fellow’ to join a dynamic team of specialist plastic surgeons, delivering high quality breast reconstruction and lymphoedema care in South Wales.
We are looking for candidates who will help deliver high-quality breast reconstruction and lymphoedema surgery services. The post is unique in that it aims to not only provide post FRCS Plast (or equivalent) specialist training and experience in breast reconstruction but also in lymphatic surgery, in preparation for an NHS consultant post.
Main duties of the job
This fellowship will provide training in the surgical management of lymphoedema. This will be via lymphoedema MDT and clinics, weekly ICG scanning and LVA lists, involvement in cases combining DIEP flap reconstructions with vascularised lymph node transfers as well as high volume liposuction. The fellow will gain a comprehensive understanding of lymphoedema management, selection criteria for surgery and pre and postoperative non-surgical management, in collaboration with Lymphoedema Network Wales, to optimise outcomes. here may be potential for the fellow to participate in other microsurgical cases when available according to learning needs.
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 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
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Essential criteria
- • Full GMC registration
- • MBBS, FRCS (Plast) or equivalent
- • Minimum of 7 years postgraduate experience including 5 years as plastics registrar/trainee level in an approved training post, or equivalent.
Desirable criteria
- • Higher professional qualifications (e.g. MD or PhD)
- • Breast reconstruction and/or lymphoedema experience
- • Evidence of relevant publications in peer reviewed journals.
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Essential criteria
- • Ability to fulfil all the duties of the post, including on-call commitments.
- • Evidence of the ability to communicate with patients, colleagues and staff at all levels
- • Recent experience and familiarity of UK hospital systems and practices (or equivalent)
Desirable criteria
- • Breast reconstruction and/or lymphoedema experience
- • Completion of teaching course of programme
- • Demonstration of involvement in clinical directorate management
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
- Sophie Pope-Jones
- Job title
- Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01792 702222
- Additional information
Zita Jessop
Consultant Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon ,
Telephone 01792702222
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