Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Provision of High Quality Care to Patients

  The post holder must:

  
  • Be dentally qualified and maintain GDC registration
  • Be listed on the GDC Oral Medicine specialist list
  • Develop and maintain the competencies required to carry out the duties required of the post
  • Continuing clinical responsibility for the patients in your charge, allowing for all proper delegation and reference to senior staff.
  • Ensure prompt attendance at agreed direct clinical care programmed 
  activities
  • Ensure patients are involved in decisions about their care and to respond  to their views

  
  Clinical Governance

  The post holder must:

  
  • 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 
  medical/dental staff and updated on a regular basis
  • Keep fully informed of 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

  
  Research, Teaching and Training

  The post holder must:

  • 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 as delegated by the Clinical 
  Director to ensure external accreditation of training posts

  Performance Management

  The post holder must work with medical / 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
  • Participate in financial management e.g. identification, implementation and achievement of cost improvement programmes 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. waiting list activity and demand management

  
  Strategy and Business Planning

  
  The post holder must:
  • 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

  
   Medical / Dental Staff Management

  
  The post holder must:
  • Work with colleagues to ensure junior doctors’ hours comply with EWTD and New Deal
  • Ensure that adequate systems and procedures are in place to control and monitor leave for junior medical / dental staff and to ensure that there is appropriate cover within the clinical areas, including on-call commitments
  • Participate in the recruitment of junior medical / dental 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

  
  Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults
  Post holders have a general responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their daily duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

  
  Confidentiality / Data Protection / Freedom of Information
  All staff must comply with information governance requirements. Post holders must maintain the confidentiality of information about patients, staff and other health service business in accordance with the Data Protection Act of 1998 and Freedom of Information Act (FOI) 2005

  Health and Safety
  All post holders have a responsibility, under the Health and Safety at Work Act (1974) and subsequently published regulations, to ensure that the Trust’s health and safety policies and procedures are complied with to maintain a safe working environment for patients, visitors and employees.
  
  Sustainability

  It is the responsibility of all staff to minimise the Trust’s environmental impact by 
  recycling wherever possible, switching off lights, computers monitors and equipment 
  when not in use, minimising water usage and reporting faults promptly.

  Leadership and Team Working
  The post holder must:
  • 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 specialty
  • Resolve conflict and difficult situations through negotiation and discussion, involving appropriate parties
  • Adhere to Trust / departmental guidelines on leave including reporting absence

  
   Equal Opportunities
  Post holders must:
  • Fulfil their responsibilities with regard to the Trust’s Equal Opportunities Policy and equality laws.

  Other
  The list of duties and responsibilities given above is not an exhaustive list and you may be asked to undertake other duties in line with the overall purpose and nature of the post as may be required from time to time. This job description reflects core activities of a post at a particular time. The trust expects that all staff will recognise this and adopt a flexible approach to work. All staff are expected to contribute to the smooth running of their clinical service as 
  required; in particular, to comply with the policies and procedures, Standing Orders and Financial Regulations of the trust.