Senior TIG Hand Fellow in Swansea

Do you share our Health Board values; Caring for each other; Working together; Always improving? If so, we would love for you to come and work for Swansea Bay University HB. The post is a one-year Training Interface Group (TIG) fellowship in hand surgery, commencing August 2026. The fellowship is intended to produce hand surgeons who are well versed in the breadth and depth of hand surgery. The fellow is expected to gain mutually complementary perspectives and skill from both Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery and Plastic Surgery in the management of hand and wrist conditions.

Fellowships provide high quality, high prestige and quality assured advanced training in specified clinical areas of practice that are required by the service. This fellowship remains under the supervision and accreditation of the previous UK TIG training scheme in Hand Surgery. Applications are welcomed from both orthopaedic and plastic surgeons specialising in hand surgery. Exposure will be provided to the breadth of hand and wrist surgery, including elective and emergency hand & wrist surgery, arthroplasty, brachial plexus & peripheral nerve surgery, paediatric hand surgery, and spasticity surgery. There is a focus on the successful candidate to gain as wide an experience as possible, but flexibility is allowed as to the future specialism of the candidate.

Main duties of the job: The post will build on the skills achieved by certification to enable a fellow to contribute unsupervised as a member of the multidisciplinary team to manage patients presenting with the full range of elective and emergency conditions related to the clinical area of practice of the fellowship. The post will not participate in the on-call rota and this post is not recognised for training.

Working for our organisation: 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. 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.

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.

Person specification:

• Status
• Essential criteria: Registered within GMC at time of taking up post
• Desirable criteria: Within 2 years of completion of specialty training

• Qualifications
• Essential criteria: Relevant postgraduate qualification in surgery as demonstrated for entry onto the Specialist Register
• Desirable criteria: Enrolled in the Diploma of Hand Surgery

• Experience
• Essential criteria: At or above the level of a CCT
• Desirable criteria: Evidence of continued experience commensurate with time since completion of specialty training

• Experience
• Essential criteria: Clear career progression consistent with personal circumstances
• Desirable criteria: To have current level of knowledge and skills significantly advanced by fellowship training