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Main area
Dental
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Salaried Dentist - A
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
229-SDMS-JC-6252974
Employer
Wye Valley NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Wye Valley NHS Trust
Town
Herefordshire
Salary
£47,653 - £71,479 plus unsocial hours enhancement of 10%
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
24/05/2024 23:59

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Community Dental Officer

NHS Medical & Dental: Salaried Dentist - A

Job overview

The Community Dental Officer will be expected to demonstrate high professional standards and have responsibility for maintaining clinical standards, working within a commissioned dental service.  The post holder will provide comprehensive routine and urgent care to patients and preventative care advice to all ages including working with a wide range of patient groups including children and adults with specific needs.  These specific needs may include adults and children with additional needs, patients with complex medical needs, anxiety management and/or treatment with sedation, patients with urgent and immediate dental needs who are unable to access dental care in the GDS.

Applicants for the Community Dental Officers post will be flexible, motivated and patient focused. They must possess full GDC registration and hold a Performer number; have evidence in a portfolio of up to date continuous professional development; be able to demonstrate leadership skills and relevant clinical experience; and have excellent communication skills with an understanding of and ability to be sensitive to the needs of relevant patient groups.

You must be able to travel across Herefordshire in the delivery of dental care.

2 x Community Dentists – Band A based  Herefordshire dental access centres.

Part time hours will be considered 

We welcome all applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.

For more information please contact Sofia Almeida  - [email protected] 

Main duties of the job

To provide high quality treatment planning, preventative and urgent/routine NHS dental care treatments services for a wide range of patients including children and adults with additional needs or with special dental requirements in accordance with NHS Regulations and provider requirements.  

Manage the day to day activities of the dental surgery in conjunction with the other members of the team. Maintaining proper standards appropriate to a clinical area, including control of infection procedures and the efficient and effective use of resources

Provision of urgent dental care for patients who cannot access NHS dental care

To accept referrals from our General Dental Service colleagues and provide a service which is complementary to other primary care providers.

To prescribe appropriate items of dental care for delivery by other members of the dental team ensuring the most appropriate use of the available skill mix.

To ensure all treatment plans and care are explained fully to patients and that patient records are correctly noted.

Flexible patient centred approach to treatment planning and service provision

 

Working for our organisation

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

Worcestershire is our neighbouring county. The post holder will be required to travel between sites.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”

Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further details on the job duties and responsibilities please do see the attached job description. 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Full GDC Registration
  • BDS degree or equivalent
  • Hold Dental performer number
  • Applicants must have completed Vocational Dental Foundation Training or equivalent
  • Evidence of relevant continuing education and development
Desirable criteria
  • Postgraduate qualification in Special Care Dentistry and/or paediatric dentistry or postgraduate training in a relevant clinical subject or equivalent experience

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Able to demonstrate Band A Salaried Primary Dentist competencies in .Clinical .Communication .Management and Leadership .Professionalism
  • Good planning and organisational skills
  • Demonstrates knowledge of NHS patient charge regulations and contractual requirements including UDAs
  • Ability to prioritise workload and work flexibly to meet the needs of patients.
  • Computer literate and willingness to learn practice software

Experiance

Essential criteria
  • Excellent clinical skills
  • Experience of working with a wide range of patients groups including children and adults with special needs
  • Understanding and evidence of participation in clinical audit and clinical governance
  • Wide experience of primary dental care provision
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of participation in peer review and clinical supervision

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Trust IDApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyMenopause Friendly EmployerAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldArmed Forces Covenant (Silver Award)Mindful employer. Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employercorporate covenantNHS Rainbow badge

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
Sarah Bailey
Job title
Dental Team Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01432 378954

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