Locum Resident Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist

Main area Obstetrics and Gynaecology Grade NHS Medical & Dental:
Locum Consultant Contract 4 months (Temporary - Fixed term Post 1 Until March 2026. Post 2, 12-month contract) Hours 10 sessions per week (Full time / 10 sessions, 1 in 8 Resident On Call (Covering Obseterics & Gynaecology)) Job
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Employer Swansea Bay University Health Board Employer type NHS Site Singleton Hospital Town Swansea Salary £121,264 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 26/01/2026 23:59

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.

We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for a 10 session Locum Resident Consultant Obstetrics & Gynaecology, subspecialising in high-risk pregnancy and perinatal mental health care. This is a replacement post joining a team of 21 Consultants responsible for the provision of O&G services at Singleton Hospital within Swansea Bay University Health Board.

Please note we have 1 x post until March 2026 and another post for 12 months.

See attached Job Description for further details of Job Plan.

Sessional Commitment: 10 Sessions contracted with 7 Direct Clinical Commitments and 3 Supporting Professional Activities. Please note after 3 months, a review of the job plan will be undertaken dependent on special interests and service needs. A full session is 3 hours and 45 minutes duration.

The out of hours on call provision is also supported by an additional on-call non-resident O&G Consultant and is in line with the “ ensuring safe out of hours support for complex emergency obstetrics and gynaecology surgery” RCOG recommendations. There are support services on-call during out of hours including General Surgery, Vascular, Gynae-Oncology and Urology.

DIRECT CLINICAL ACTIVITIES INCLUDE:
Emergency duties (including emergency work carried out during or arising from on-call) ;
Gynaecology and delivery suite service weeks ;
Operating sessions including pre- and post-operative care ;
Ward rounds/Outpatient clinics/clinical diagnostic work/other patient treatment ;
Public health duties

Multi-disciplinary meetings about direct patient care ;
Administration directly related to patient care e.g., referrals, notes etc.

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.

Mental Health and learning Disabilities services are provided both in hospital settings (Cefn Coed Hospital, Swansea Caswell clinic and Taith Newydd at Glanrhyd Bridgend) and other community settings.

We also have community hospital and primary care resource centres providing clinical services outside the main hospitals.

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.

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…