Job summary
- Main area
- Special Care Dentistry/ Clinical Director
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Salaried Dentist - C
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday)
- Job ref
- 040-CD07.2024-A
- Employer
- Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Llanfrechfa Grange
- Town
- Cwmbran
- Salary
- £94,494 - £102,479 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Dental Services Manager/Clinical Director
NHS Medical & Dental: Salaried Dentist - C
If you are successful at interview for this post you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.
Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process
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
ABUHB is looking for a leader with extensive experience in a senior position in the Community Dental Service (CDS), who is willing to commit to achieve results and meet deadlines, setting high standards and motivated to achieve them. They will provide clinical leadership to all staff in the (CDS) Directorate and manage the service and its staff ensuring the delivery of service programmes, contributing towards the Quality and Clinical Governance agenda and together with the Medical Director and Integrated Oral and Dental Services Group (IOHG) helping develop and implement the operational plans of the CDS service.
Benefits of working for CDS in ABUHB in South Wales
- The CDS are keen to ensure that the successful applicant has the right support in place and therefore will provide coaching and mentoring options in addition to an inclusion on the Dental Directors (Wales) monthly peer group.
- Support of a newly full time Community Dental Manager.
- Working at a newly built six surgery dental clinic.
- Paid study leave
- Paid annual leave – 34 days plus bank holidays
- Lease car scheme
Main duties of the job
Provide a range of clinical duties relevant to this role, leading on triage and managing clinical referrals.
Responsible for the Community Dental Service operational implementation of policy and strategic planning.
Operational management of multiple sites and staff groups, with line management for Senior CDS staff.
Responsible for and conduct appraisals and job plans of CDS staff.
Why South Wales?
South Wales is a wonderful place to live and work with its beautiful and dramatic landscapes; stunning beaches; outdoor pursuits; historical sites; theatres; cultural events with easy access to the cities of Cardiff, Bristol, Bath and London.
South Wales which has a diverse picturesque escape of golden coastal getaways, fairy-tale castles brimming with history, countryside and woodlands, walled gardens and parks to arboretums, mountain peaks, lakes, magnificent Welsh mansions, and National coal and history museums to explore.
Working for our organisation
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Well-being Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opened in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see Job Description and person specification for further information and main responsibilities in TRAC.
This position involves Regulated Activity with children and adults as defined by the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act (amended by the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012) and the following checks will be undertaken following any conditional offer:
- Enhanced check with barred list information, including - an adults and children’s barred list check
Applicants must hold full registration and a licence to practice with the GDC
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registration with General Dental Council
- Bachelor in Dental Surgery or equivalent
- Post graduate qualification MSc or equivalent, relevant Clinical discipline, DPH and/or research
- Leadership course
- Postgraduate CPD
Desirable criteria
- GDC Specialist Registration relevant to post
- Membership of a professional organisation/learned society relating to the clinical specialist/specialised area of work
- Leadership or Management qulaification
- Clinical Education/Teaching qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience in Senior position in CDS
- Operational management of dental teams
- Teaching, training, supervision, mentorship of other grades of staff and/or students
- NHS experience
- Analysis and interpretation of data and evidence of production of reports
Desirable criteria
- Experience of Direct Access in relation to DCP's
- DPH experience/involvement in national public health initiatives at a senior level
- Organisation of Sedation and or GA service.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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 not necessary
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Steve Woolley
- Job title
- Consultant in Special Care Dentistry
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01633 623728
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