Locum Consultant Transplant

Locum Consultant Transplant & Organ Retrieval Surgeon The closing date is 21 December 2025 Applications are invited for a Locum Consultant Transplant Surgeon post based at University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff. This post is available for approximately 12 months whilst covering long-term sickness absence. The Transplant Unit at UHW is a leader in the field, performing approximately 140 adult transplants per year. This includes compatible and blood group and HLA incompatible living donors (approximately 50 per year), deceased donors (donation after brainstem death (DBD) and donation after circulatory death (DCD), approximately 60‑80 per year), and pancreas transplants (approximately 8‑15 per year). The unit has a stand‑alone multi‑organ retrieval team and is part of National Organ Retrieval Services (NORS) providing abdominal retrieval services nationally and Normothermic Organ Perfusion (one of the 3 units recognised for the current provision of Normothermic perfusion). The unit has one of the largest experiences in the country in ABOi and HLAi transplants in close collaboration with the Immunogenetics & Histocompatibility Laboratory of South Wales with excellent results. The unit provides access surgery and general surgical cover for the patients on the renal failure programme. It has access to an increasing number of General Surgical operating lists, and outpatient clinics leading to a wide and varied surgical practice. The 5 Consultants currently involved in general surgery provide the majority of elective laparoscopic cholecystectomies and hernias for the UHB. Main duties of the job The successful appointee will support the transplantation, vascular access services. The appointee will participate in the UK National Organ Retrieval Service (NORS) which will require the post holder to travel to donor hospitals across the UK. The post holder will work as one of a team of 9 Consultant Surgeons to deliver kidney and pancreas transplant services to the 1.5 million population of South and Mid Wales and pancreas transplant for Shrewsbury. They will also work as part of the team providing vascular access and general surgery procedures to patients with Chronic Kidney Disease in South East Wales. Although this post is full‑time, consideration will be given to applicants who require flexible working arrangements. You will be able to take advantage of the excellent Consultant contract for Wales. The basic salary for this post is £121,264 per annum. Applicants should preferably either be on the Specialist Register or be a Specialist Registrar within three months of their expected date of receipt of a CCT at the time of interview. Applicants must ensure they provide names and contact details of referees covering at least the last 3 years of their employment/training history in full. In addition, applicants who are currently or have most recently been employed as a substantive Consultant or as a Locum Consultant in post for more than 12 months must also provide the name of their Medical Director as an additional referee. About us Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 15,000 staff, providing over 100 specialist services. Working across 6 hospital sites, we have a diverse range of career opportunities to offer. Serving around 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, we are focussed on the health and care needs of our local population whilst working with our partners to develop regional services. Our mission "Living Well, Caring Well, Working Together" and our vision is that every person's chance of leading a healthy life should be equal. As an organisation we are unashamedly ambitious for our population's health, rising to the challenges of today and tomorrow through our 10-year strategy, Shaping our Future Wellbeing. We are contributing to a healthier Wales with great emphasis placed on innovation and improvement, learning from around the world and leading the way in clinical research. Partnership working is strong at Cardiff and Vale, and we work closely with our staff and our community. Cardiff, the thriving Welsh capital, is a fantastic city to live and work in with an abundance of sports, arts and cultural attractions. Situated to the west of Cardiff, the Vale of Glamorgan offers a combination of beautiful Welsh countryside and a dramatic natural coastline. Whether city life or rural living, Cardiff and the Vale offers the best of both worlds. Job responsibilities You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents. Person Specification Qualifications Full GMC registration with a licence to practise Experience Ability to manage all aspects of kidney transplantation including recipient work-up, organ offer assessment, transplant surgical procedure, peri-operative ward care, and post-operative outpatient care Ability to perform the full range of primary and secondary vascular access procedures Ability to manage general surgery case procedures Experience of living donor surgery Ability to lead full abdominal organ retrieval procedures independently Experience of pancreas transplantation Skills Evidence of effective team and multidisciplinary working Effective and demonstrable communication skills Clinical Governance Evidence of participation in clinical audit and understanding role of audit in improving medical practice Evidence of proactive engagement with appraisal and revalidation (or equivalent) Research Evidence of active research interests Teaching Evidence of teaching medical students and resident doctors Management Evidence of effective leadership skills 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. 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