Job summary
- Main area
- DCT 2/3 Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
- Grade
- Dental Core Trainee 2
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (with on call)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week (with on call)
- Job ref
- 110-MD348-0625
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Prince Charles Hospital
- Town
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Salary
- £43,670 - £60,102 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Dental Core Trainee 2/3 (DCT 2/3)
Dental Core Trainee 2
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed
Job overview
The post holder will undertake a 1 in 8 out of hours on-call rota in
Prince Charles Hospital. Experience will be gained in facial hard and soft tissue trauma, oro-facial infection, deformity, pathology of the jaws and oral soft tissues, facial and oral neoplasia and dento-alveolar surgery.
Trainees will work in out-patient clinics, in-patient wards, A&E
departments, Operating Theatres and Minor Surgery units.
The surgical team comprises 4 Maxillofacial Consultants, Mr Jonathan
Jones, Mr Jonathan Hulbert, Mr Neil Scott and Mr Sankar Ananth and one Oral Surgery Consultant Mr Keith Smart. In addition, there is second on call support from Associate Specialist and Speciality Doctors.
Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Main duties of the job
Dental Core Training Post in Oral & maxillofacial Surgery who will work under the direction of the consultants in the Department of Oral & Maxillofacial surgery. There will be daily contact with a multidisciplinary range of staff based on the ward, in the casualty Department, in operating theatres, Outpatients, from pharmacy and administrative staff.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This training and career development post will provide exposure to a broad range of Oral & maxillofacial surgery. There will be Hospital Consultation clinics for new and review patients under the supervision of either a Consultant Oral & Maxillofacial or Oral Surgeon. In addition, there will be expose to minor oral surgery procedures, Day surgery cases and inpatient cases.
There will be study sessions for research, audit and publication activity. Attendance at relevant study days organised for local DF1 and 2 programmes will be encouraged.
Attendance and presentation to the Welsh Hospitals Dental Specialities Meeting is expected. Support for obtaining a postgraduate examination is provided.
The post is subject to regular appraisal by a named supervising Consultant and monitoring of a portfolio of workplace based assessmts and logbook of activity.
The DCT2 post is recognised for M.F.D.S, MJDF & M.R.C.S. One Study Session per week is timetabled. A proportion of these sessions will be dedicated to a programme of formal teaching
Person specification
Qualifactions
Essential criteria
- • BDS or equivalent dental qualification
Clinical Knowledge & Expertise
Essential criteria
- Capacity to apply sound clinical knowledge and awareness to full investigation of problems
- Capable of conducting operative procedures
- Personal involvement in clinical governance including clinical audit or significant event analysis
- Understand the principles and relevance of clinical research
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of participation in research
Personal Skills
Essential criteria
- Effective oral and written communication skills
- Capacity to adjust behaviour and language as appropriate to needs of differing situations
- Capacity to think beyond the obvious, with analytical and flexible mind
- Capacity and motivation to take in others’ perspectives and to treat others with understanding
- Demonstrates an understanding of a patient centred approach
- Capacity to work effectively in partnership with others as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Evidence of leadership
- Demonstrates effective organisational skills, including ability to plan and prioritise own workload to meet deadlines
- Good use of IT systems and packages
- Capacity to know limitations and be prepared to seek advice
- Potential to cope with stressful situations and undertake responsibility
- Understands, respects, and demonstrates the following values: everyone counts; improving lives; commitment to quality of care; respect and dignity; working together for patients; compassion
Professional Integrity
Essential criteria
- Capacity to take responsibility for own actions
- Demonstrates respect for all
- Able to demonstrate professional attitude
Commitment to Learning & Personal Development
Essential criteria
- Commitment to prospective training post and demonstrates insight into the structure and benefits of Dental Core Training
- Capacity and motivation to learn from experience and constantly update skills/knowledge
- Evidence of teaching experience
Desirable criteria
- Working towards or already obtained postgraduate qualifications (MFDS, MJDF or equivalent)
- Portfolio containing evidence of progression and development of clinical skills and professional development
- Publications
- Enthusiasm for teaching; exposure to different group/teaching methods
- Presentation
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
- Mr Keith Smart
- Job title
- Consultant Oral Surgeon/CD Head & Neck
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01685 723685
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