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Job summary

Main area
Dentistry
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Contract
Permanent: Part time 7PA
Hours
Part time - 7 sessions per week
Job ref
196-CON1120
Employer
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Guy Hospital / St Thomas' Hospital
Town
London
Salary
£109,725 - £145,478 per annum excl. LZ
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
10/05/2026 23:59
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Consultant in Dental Maxillofacial Radiology

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions. 

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.

Job overview

The Department of Dental and Maxillofacial Radiology is seeking a substantive part-time (7 PA) Consultant to join a dynamic and forward-thinking team. The department is involved in a range of service developments and is looking for an individual with the skills to support ongoing clinical and academic excellence.

The post is based at Guy’s Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, with a requirement to work at other Trust sites as needed. Clinical duties will primarily include cone beam CT (CBCT) reporting, ultrasound imaging, and radiological interventions.

The successful candidate will provide clinical services for Dental Directorate patients alongside existing consultants. The role includes teaching, training, and mentoring staff, trainees, and students, as well as participation in clinical audit and research.

Applicants should have specialist experience in CBCT reporting, plain radiography, and ultrasound imaging for salivary gland and oral and maxillofacial conditions. Experience managing referrals from a range of dental and medical specialties is required. The role also includes image-guided interventional procedures.

The service receives both local and tertiary referrals from across the South East. The postholder will work closely with dental specialties and the Department of Oral Surgery, contributing to multidisciplinary team clinics and joint interventional and surgical case management.

Main duties of the job

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·                To provide service in Dental Maxillofacial Radiology at GSTFT in accordance with Trust guidelines and strategy of both GSTFT and strategy of KCL Dental Institute.

·                To participate in clinical and other service activities with the object of ensuring a high standard of patient care. 

·                To take an active part in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training.

 

 

Working for our organisation

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s  biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.

We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • Provide High Quality Care to Patients

    ·         The post holder must be dentally qualified and maintain GDC specialist registration in Dental Maxillofacial Radiology and are GDC registered.

    ·         To develop and maintain the competencies required to carry out the duties required of the post.

    ·         To ensure prompt attendance at agreed direct clinical care Programmed Activities.

    ·         To ensure patients are involved in decisions about their care and to respond to their views.

     

    Research, Teaching and Training

    The post holder must be able

     

    ·         Where possible to collaborate with academic and clinical colleagues to enhance the Trust’s translational research portfolio, at all times meeting the full requirements of Research Governance.

    ·         Provide high quality teaching to dental undergraduates and members of other health care professions as required by the Clinical Director.

    ·         Act as educational supervisor and appraiser, once suitably trained as delegated by the Clinical Director to ensure external accreditation of training post.

     

    Performance Management

    The post holder must

    ·         Work with dental, nursing and managerial colleagues to ensure high performance in the following areas:

    ·         Maintain clinical efficiency e.g. LOS reductions, reducing cancelled operations and DNA rates.

    ·         Meet quality of outcomes e.g. infection control targets, reducing re-admission rates.

    ·         Participate in financial management e.g. identification, implementation and achievement of cost improvement programmes and participating in efforts to ensure services are provided cost effectively e.g. managing locum agency spend, monitoring and managing the drug budget to target, ensuring accuracy of clinical data for the team.

    ·         Help to improve operational efficiency e.g. day-case rates, waiting list activity and demand management.

      Staff Management

    ·         Work with colleagues to ensure junior doctors’ hours are compliant in line with EWTD and New Deal.

    ·         Ensure that adequate systems and procedures are in place to control and monitor leave for junior clinical staff and to ensure that there is appropriate cover within the clinical areas, including on-call commitments.

    ·         Participate in the recruitment of junior staff as and when required.

    ·         Participate in team objective setting as part of the annual job planning cycle.

    ·         Be responsible for the annual appraisal of all doctors in training, Trust doctors, Clinical Fellows and non-consultant grades as delegated by the Clinical Director/General Manager. 

    Governance

     ·         Review clinical outcomes in designated area using external benchmarking data where appropriate, to identify and advise variances to the Clinical Director.

    ·         Participate in clinical audit, incident reporting and analysis and to ensure resulting actions are implemented.

    ·         Work closely with the Directorate, Patient and Public Involvement panels in relation to clinical and services developments as delegated by the Clinical Director.

    ·         Participate in ensuring NICE requirements are reviewed and implemented and monitored in the speciality areas.

    ·         Ensure clinical guidelines and protocols are adhered to by junior clinical staff and updated on a regular basis.

    ·         Keep fully informed about best practice in the speciality areas and ensure implications for practice changes are discussed with the Clinical Director.

    ·         Role model good practice for infection control to all members of the multidisciplinary team. 

    Strategy and Business Planning

     ·         Participate in the business planning and objective setting process for the directorate and Trust where appropriate.

    ·         Represent the Trust at appropriate clinical networks/other external clinical meetings, as delegated by the Clinical Director.

     Leadership and Team Working

    ·         Demonstrate excellent leadership skills with regard to individual performance, clinical teams, the Trust and when participating in national or local initiatives.

    ·         Work collaboratively with all members of the multi-disciplinary team and Kings Health Partners as required.

    ·         Chair regular meetings for the specialties.

    ·         Resolve conflict and difficult situations through negotiation and discussion, involving appropriate parties.

    ·         Adhere to Trust/departmental guidelines on leave including reporting absence.

Person specification

Professional Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Full GDC registration, Registered specialist in Dental Maxillofacial Radiology, CCST in Dental Maxillofacial Radiology or within 6 months of CCST.
Desirable criteria
  • Higher academic degree related to Dental Maxillofacial Radiology, such as a MSc, PhD etc, One, or more of the following or equivalent qualifications: FDS RCS MFDS RCS

Clinical Experience and Skills

Essential criteria
  • • Experience / training such that the applicant has reached at least the standard considered equivalent to that expected after 4 years of specialist training in Dental Maxillofacial Radiology
  • • Extensive experience of CBCT reporting Ultrasound and interventional radiology
  • • Ability to independently perform CBCT reporting
  • • Ability to independently perform ultrasound investigations
Desirable criteria
  • • Experience of leading a multidisciplinary team
  • • Experience in training under and post graduates in dental radiology
  • Worked with specialist in oral surgery and oral medicine in joint clinics managing Head and Neck cancer patients and patients with salivary gland diseases

Audit Managment & IT

Essential criteria
  • Understanding of clinical governance and risk management in the secondary care setting
  • Management skills and effective leadership for the NHS environment and specifically clinical service delivery
  • Effective participation in audit including implementation of outcomes
  • Good IT skills

Research / Teaching Skill & Experience

Essential criteria
  • • Experience of organisation and clinical supervision of postgraduate and undergraduate teaching
  • • Experience of providing and training in the NHS
  • • Able to appraise the scientific literature critically.
  • • Presentations at national research meetings
  • • Knowledge of research ethics
Desirable criteria
  • Experience in leading UG or PG courses
  • Evidence of teaching courses and / or teaching qualifications
  • Experience in UG and PG examining relevant to Dental Maxillofacial Dentistry
  • Evidence of publications in refereed journals
  • Research relevant to Dental Maxillofacial Dentistry

Leadership & Management Skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to communicate with clarity and intelligently in written and spoken English; ability to build rapport, listen, persuade/ negotiate.
  • Ability to take responsibility, lead, make decisions and exert appropriate authority.
  • Empathy, understanding, listening skills, patience and ability to work co-operatively with others.
  • Able to change and adapt, respond to changing circumstances and to cope with setbacks or pressure.
  • Ability to work as part of a team
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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Kalpesh Bavisha
Job title
Clinical Lead
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
02071881816

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