ST LAS in Obstretrics & Gynaecology

We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.

Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.

We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.

Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.

All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.

Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.

This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed

Job overview

We are seeking to recruit a ST LAS Lower to join our forward thinking service. The successful appointee will join an expanding team of colleagues providing services across Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board and Community settings around the area.

English and/or Welsh speakers are both equally welcome to apply.

Main duties of the job

Ø The department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology aims to provide a complete programme of care to both emergency and elective patients, with triage and redirection of those patients more properly treated elsewhere.

Duties will comprise the assessment, monitoring, treatment and follow up of emergency patients under the supervision of the Consultant. This will include Labour Ward cover.

Ø The post holder will rotate to cover the planned leave commitments of the junior grade structure. In the event of unplanned emergency/sickness, the post holder may be requested to cover the duties of his/her colleagues.

Ø The post holder may be required to undertake daytime clinical commitments on any site across the sites.

Working for our organisation

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a full details of the job description and person specification, please see the attached documentation.

Person specification

English

• Full GMC registration with licence to practice.
• Adequate experience as 1st on call in approved Obstetrics and Gynaecology posts.

• MB BS or Equivalent
• Evidence of innovative and progressive approach to practice.

English

• Experience in initial assessment and management of different obstetrics and gynaecology conditions and emergencies.

• Other interest e.g. early pregnancy assessment

If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.