Consultant in Anaesthetics with An Interest in

Consultant Anaesthetist with an interest in Intensive Care

**Base**: Glangwili General Hospital and Prince Philip Hospital, Carmarthenshire

**Salary**: £86,063 - £111,732 per annum

Seeking to appoint an enthusiastic motivated Consultant Anaesthetist to support Anaesthetic provision across Critical Care and Theatres at Glangwili and Prince Philip General Hospitals in Carmarthenshire.

You will work across Critical Care and Theatre locations, which includes an on-call commitment. You will require a specialist interest in intensive care medicine to join our enthusiastic team in the delivery high quality Critical Care to the population of Carmarthenshire.

Our mission is to provide a first class health service, with high quality patient care and experience at the centre of our vision. Team members play a key role in the shaping and development of Anaesthetic and Critical Care services across the Health Board.

ICM work will primarily be undertaken in Glangwili Hospital, with on call responsibility to both Prince Philip and Glangwili Hospital.

The Critical Care week is from Monday to Friday 8 am to 6pm beginning with a consultant led handover from the night to the day team. On call attracts a band 3 supplement and is provided at a frequency of 1 in 10. We provide prospective cover for ICU, so all leave is taken during theatre weeks. Theatre sessions are available in a variety of specialties and will be agreed with the successful applicant based on Sub specialty interests.

Glangwili Hospital has 403 Inpatient beds, providing acute surgical and medical services to the area. It also provides all consultant led obstetric care and paediatric services for the south of the region and all ENT surgery for the Health Board.

Prince Phillip Hospital has 218 inpatient beds and provides acute medical services and elective surgery, including Orthopaedics, Breast Surgery, Urology, Colorectal and General Surgery.

Prince Philip will shortly provide an expanded day surgery service with a new build comprising of two operating theatres. This will increase the day case capacity in Carmarthenshire and support an increase in inpatient flow through Prince Philip.

There is currently a 1:10 consultant on call rota in place with the intention of expanding to 1:11 following this appointment. The cover for theatres at both hospitals includes the surgical, trauma, obstetric and paediatric emergencies, although no out of hours surgery is normally undertaken at Prince Philip Hospital.

This post does not have a Critical Care component.

As a senior employee of the Health Board the post holder will work in close co-operation with, and support other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality healthcare to the Health Board’s patients. You will provide leadership, develop teaching, supporting and training multidisciplinary teams, participate in CPD as well as developing and delivering a comprehensive service in Anaesthetics

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 11,000 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 (four 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.

For full details of the role requirements please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for this vacancy.

The Department of Anaesthetics has active training and research programmes and maintains strong links across Wales through the various clinical networks relevant to the department, allowing effective development of areas of subspecialty, managerial or academic interest.

Please ensure that you read the person specification carefully and that you meet all the essential criteria prior to applying. We encourage pre-interview contact and visits.