Job summary
- Main area
- Community Dental Service
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Salaried Dentist - C
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- Adverts - 6232981
- Employer
- Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Alexandra Hospital
- Town
- Rhyl
- Salary
- £89,174 - £102,479 NA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Dental Specialist (Orthodontics)
NHS Medical & Dental: Salaried Dentist - C
If you relish a challenge, have a passion to help others or simply fancy a fresh start, then Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) North Wales, has all the right ingredients. The largest health organisation in Wales, providing a full range of primary, community, mental health, acute and elective hospital services for a population of around 700,000, across North Wales . Join our team and get the support you need, in line with our Organisational Values and ‘Proud to Lead’ competence framework.
Enjoy being part of working with engaged leadership at all levels, and be assured we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and are proud to welcome applicants under the “Disability Confident Employer” scheme. We also offer a number of family-friendly benefits, including work-life balance policies.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Applications may be submitted in Welsh. Applications submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed
Job overview
We are looking to appoint a Part Time Specialist in Orthodontics (Band C)
Salary Band C - £89,174 - £102,479
Based at: Royal Alexandra Hospital, Rhyl
3.75 hours per week equating to 2 days per month
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an enthusiastic, flexible and motivated team player with excellent communication skills.
To provide specialist care in an identified clinical discipline.
To perform other duties as specified to meet the needs of the service.
To develop and maintain services designed to identify patients requiring treatment within the specialty.
To lead in an identified specialist field within the service as required.
To provide training and/or supervision associated with specialist and allied clinical disciplines to a range of staff.
A Full Job Description and Person Specification can be found within the additional documents section.
Working for our organisation
Most clinical staff are trained in Inhalation Sedation, a service offered by dentists and therapists at most of our sites. IV sedation services are also available and the Community Dental Service operates general anaesthetic services at the three District General Hospitals. We are also supported by a visiting Consultant in Paediatric Dentistry from Alder Hey Hospital.
We currently host three DCT(1)s per annum and have a Speciality Trainee post in Special Care Dentistry. All final year dental students from Cardiff Dental School attend the Outreach Student Training Scheme operating at Wrexham Dental Centre (to recommence September 2021).
Enhanced services include an Intermediate Tier Dentoalveolar Surgery Service and the provision of Special Care Dentistry support to the Head and Neck Cancer MDT. Direct Access and Inhalation Sedation training for Therapists is provided and we are committed to expanding our skill mix models. A number of preventative oral health promotion programmes operate: Designed to Smile (an all-Wales Programme targeting children in the most deprived areas of Wales); Gwên am Byth (Care Home Programme); Mouth Care in Hospitals (1000 Lives) and Child and Adult Learning Disability Programmes.
Benefits
- Relocation allowance available
- Paid study leave - 21 days in any 3 year period (pro rata)
- Annual accruable training allowance
- Lease car scheme operational
- Paid annual leave – 34 days + public holidays (pro rata)
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Full Job Description and Person Specification is included with all further documents. Please refer to these documents.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Full registration with the General Dental Council
- • Bachelor in Dental Surgery or equivalent
- • Registration on GDC Specialist List relevant to post
- • Proven maintenance of post-graduate continuing professional development
- • Documented recent training in Child Protection and POVA*
- • Radiation Protection/IRMER certification
Desirable criteria
- • Post-graduate qualification relating to a specific clinical skill
- • Membership of a professional organisation/learned society relating to the clinical skill
- • Clinical education/teaching qualification
- • Management qualification
- • ECDL or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Experience in CDS, GDS and/or HDS
- • Experience in pain and anxiety control as appropriate to specialty
- • Proven track record in specialty area
- • Experience in Risk Management
- • Committee experience
- • Experience of teaching, training, supervising and mentoring of other staff
- • Producing reports and/or papers
- • Clinical audit/Peer review
Desirable criteria
- • Experience in other dental discipline(s)
- • NHS GDS or relevant UK primary dental care experience
- • Management experience
- • Research experience
- • Experience of working with dental orthodontic therapists/dental therapists/hygienists
- • Membership of relevant professional body
Personal Skills
Essential criteria
- • Organisational and leadership skills: ability to communicate with, support and motivate team
- • Computer literacy
- • Able to organise a clinical service across an area and produce reports
- • Ability to plan strategically
- • Self-motivated and can meet deadlines
- • Ability to prioritise patients, sessions and organise work
- • Good interpersonal skills with patients, carers and colleagues from other disciplines
- • Ability to take the lead clinically, facilitate new innovations and assist with management of change
Desirable criteria
- • Ability to impart theory and skills in the specialty
- • Knowledge of relevant software packages
- • Experience of research and/or an interest in service-based research
- • Knowledge and experience of the financial framework relating to the speciality
Personal Aptitude
Essential criteria
- • Flexible and willing to commit to achieve results and meet deadlines
- • Sets high standards and motivated to achieve them
- • Aware of own limitations
- • Able to work autonomously
- • Flexible approach to changing priorities and work systems
Desirable criteria
- • High degree of professionalism demonstrable by support from peers and managers
- • Ability/confidence to appraise others
General
Essential criteria
- • Ability to travel to venues across north Wales as required in a timely fashion
- • Appreciation of cultural diversity and equality issues*
Desirable criteria
- • Fluency or knowledge of Welsh*
- • Fluency in a modern foreign language (other than Welsh or English)
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jacqueline Sandra Sandham
- Job title
- Clinical Director of NWCDS
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03000 856231
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