Job summary
Due to fixed term contract expiring creating an opportunity for an existing member of the Special Care Dental Service team to take up a permanent Band C Managerial post for our SouthWest area. The successful applicant will work closely with Tina and Lavinia, providing professional leadership in the SouthWest area and contribute to Service wide leadership via the management huddle, Clinical Leads Group and Business Integrated Governance/Business Operational meetings.This position will not be advertised externally and in keeping with the Trusts commitment to succession planning and career development we are now seeking interest from Senior Dental Officers.Please see attached job description and person specification to understand more about the role and the responsibilities of the post.
Main duties of the job
The Band C Management Dentist for Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Dental Service is responsible for ensuring that the highest standard of care is delivered for adults and children. The post holder will provide the professional clinical leadership, providing support and advice to dentists, dental care professionals and other stakeholders.The Band C Management Dentist will form part of the Senior Management Team with the Clinical Director, Clinical Leads and the Head of Quality & Professions.The Dental Service provides preventive care and treatment for those who cannot receive care in a general dental setting due to their special needs which includes those with a physical sensory, intellectual, mental, medical, emotional or social impairment or disability and those who require specialist occasional care due to medical, physical or behavioural difficulties.A full range of treatment is provided which may also include treatment under conscious sedation (trans mucosal, inhalation or intravenous sedation) and also general anaesthesia for adults and children. Domiciliary services are also provided for those who are elderly, frail and housebound.Other services provided include Dental Public Health Services which includes Oral Health Promotion, Screening and Epidemiology and also a Dental Referral Management Service.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person’s care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone – if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust’s Recruitment team – detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working – all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Dental Surgery
- Further recognised postgraduate qualification and experience
- Current full Registration as Dental Surgeon with General Dental Council
- Completion of Band B competencies (Salaried Services National Agreement, 2007)
- Appropriate postgraduate experience and qualification/s
- Postgraduate qualification/s at level 4 in the field of General Dentistry or Primary Care Dentistry (e.g. MFGDP, MFDS, MSc MJDF, DPDS, etc)
- Vocational training or equivalent and performers number
Experience
- >5 years experience primary care / special care dentistry
- Previous experience in Salaried Dental Services or similar
- Experience of providing dental care for patients unable to obtain care in the GDS due to medical, physical or behavioural difficulties
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.
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