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Locum Consultant Orthopaedic/Neuro Surgeon With An Interest In Spinal

Swansea Bay University Health Board
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Location
Salary
£116,600 Per annum, pro rata
Profession
Medical doctor
Grade
Consultant
Deadline
27 May 2025
Contract Type
Locum: 12 months
Posted Date
13 May 2025

Job overview

We are looking for a Consultant Spinal Orthopaedic Surgeon with expertise in Adult trauma, Adult deformity and Adult degenerative spinal management, to join a closely-knit team of existing seven consultants. We are looking for successful candidate to join as soon as possible.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will increase our team to eight consultant surgeons, with the ability to provide comprehensive spinal management between three hospitals: Neath Port Talbot hospital, Singleton hospital and Morriston hospital. While complex spinal and unscheduled spinal surgery will remain in Morriston hospital, scheduled and uncomplex surgery will be developed in Neath Port Talbot hospital, which is growing as a specialist Orthopaedic and Spinal Elective Surgery unit.

The new member to the existing team will need to maintain the excellent communication and teamworking skills which already thrive in our unit. The service is consultant-led and consultant-delivered, with support from Allied Medical Practitioners. The Welsh Deanery also allocates a Specialist Registrar to the Trauma and Orthopaedic Unit, with some of the timetable spent within the spinal unit. The On Call spinal rota is hosted by the Trauma and Orthopaedic On Call team, with referrals for spinal opinions requested by the Orthopaedic Registrar On Call as necessary. This means that non-operative and non-complex spinal admissions to hospital are mainly managed by the admitting Orthopaedic and Trauma team, with spinal support as required.

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.