Job summary
This is an opportunity to join a small friendly and welcoming international team of anaesthetists at Withybush Hospital in West Wales. We provide anaesthetic services for operating lists, a critical care unit, an emergency department, resuscitation, and inter-hospital transfer.Our post would suit international candidates with significant anaesthesia & critical care experience seeking a soft landing in their first post in the UK. It would also appeal to candidates already working in the UK and who are seeking to settle in a long-term non-consultant career post in a beautiful part of the world.
Our department of 11 consultants, 1 associate specialist and 15 specialty doctors provides anaesthesia in a modern suite of 5 theatres and a 9-bedded critical care unit that combines high dependency and intensive care. The surgical specialties served are general surgery, orthopaedics and trauma, and gynaecology. The hospital emergency department receives adult emergency medical & surgical admissions and has a paediatric minor injuries unit.
Main duties of the job
This post supports airway and multi-system management, and the provision of anaesthesia across the elective theatres, an emergency on-call rota for theatres and the critical care unit, and facilitates inter-hospital road and air transfers.Daytime work is supervised by resident consultants. Out-of-hours specialty doctors are part of a resident multi-disciplinary emergency team and a Consultant is available for telephone advice and will attend any complex cases and if the specialty doctor requires support. Our specialty doctors and consultants support the training of medical students from Swansea University.
About us
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 12,000 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 (six 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;
Numerous locations providing mental health and learning disabilities services;
Highly specialised and tertiary services commissioned by the Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee, a joint committee representing seven health boards across Wales.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further details are outlined in the attached Job Description; and direct enquires from interested staff are welcomed.
Person Specification
English
Essential
- Full GMC Registration with current licence to practice
- GMC acceptable primary medical qualification
- Willingness to achieve UK resuscitation council certification as a provider of BLS & ALS within 4 months of employment commencing
- Minimum of 4 years of post-graduate experience
- Minimum of 2 years post-graduate anaesthesia training equivalent to UK specialty core training
- Recent significant broad-based experience of high quality contemporary style anaesthetic and critical care practice
- Able to demonstrate achievement of core anaesthetic competencies equivalent to those expected at completion of a UK CT2 training post
Desirable
- GMC acceptable post graduate qualifications
- Current UK Resuscitation Council certificates in BLS, ALS, ATLS, EPLS/APLS
- Evidence of specific transfer medicine training or certification
- Evidence of recent continuous professional development
- Experience working in the NHS
- More than 2 years post-graduate anaesthetic training or experience in anaesthesia, pain medicine and critical care medicine
- Experience working with supervision from a distant site
- Experience supervising junior anaesthetists and trainees
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
Hywel Dda University Health Board
Address
Withybush General Hospital
Fishguard Road
Haverfordwest
SA61 2PZ