Job summary
Are you an orthodontic consultant seeking a rewarding and fulfilling career where you will be part of a cohesive and established team? We can offer you a varied role, where you can enjoy a diverse and complex caseload, the opportunity for service development, digital innovation, teaching and research, while being encouraged to develop your own areas of special interest.
Your main base will be the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Heavitree). The dedicated clinic is open plan and air-conditioned - perfect for providing a calming and relaxing environment for patients, while being suited to teaching and supervision of our trainees. You will also provide a weekly clinic at our dedicated facility at North Devon District Hospital in Barnstaple. Both clinics benefit from on-site orthodontics laboratories.
If you are planning on coming down to the West Country to attend the Consultant Orthodontic Symposium in Bath on 5th & 6th March why not arrange a pre conference visit to our fabulous department.
Main duties of the job
For more detail about the main duties of this role, please see the job description section below. As a key member of the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, you will be joining an exceptional team working together to help our patients to stay healthy, when they need it most.
About us
Stretching across Northern, Eastern and Mid Devon, we have a workforce of over 15,000 staff, making us the largest employer in Devon. Our core services, which we provide to more than 615,000 people, cover more than 2,000 square miles across Devon, while some of our specialist services cover the whole of the peninsula, extending our reach as far as Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
We deliver a wide range of emergency, specialist and general medical services through North Devon District Hospital and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Wonford).
Alongside our two acute hospitals, we provide integrated health and social care services across a variety of settings, including community inpatient hospitals, outpatient clinics, and within peoples own homes. We also offer primary care services, a range of specialist community services, and Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC).
Our state-of-the-art equipment, leading technologies and strong links to local universities put us at the forefront of research and innovations, enabling us to provide world-class care to our local communities.
Its never been a more exciting time to join the Royal Devon, as youll help to shape our services as we continue along our integration journey.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For full information on the role, the service and living in Devon, please take a look at our comprehensive Consultant Information pack.
More about the role
The Orthodontic departments in Exeter and Barnstaple cover all aspects of Secondary Care Orthodontics and work closely to the NHS England Orthodontic Commissioning Guide. This includes the combined management of patients affected by cleft lip and palate, dental trauma and developmental dental abnormalities. The department has a well-developed high-volume orthognathic surgery service for patients with significant dental skeletal anomalies.
Our team. You will join an established team of two part-time and one full-time Consultant Orthodontists, together with speciality trainees and the successful development of orthodontic therapists integrated into the team. Along with specialist dental nurses, technologists, receptionists and medical secretaries.
We also work closely and collaboratively with colleagues in Oral and Maxillofacial team, Restorative Dentistry services and the Southwest Regional Cleft Lip Palate team.
Please take a look at our Consultant Information pack for full details of this varied role that can offer:
- teaching
- research
- service development
- career progression
- training and development
- a great work life balance
If youre ready for a new challenge and a fantastic quality of life, wed love to hear from you. Please contact Emily Simpson, Executive and Specialist Recruitment by email emily.simpson21@nhs.net or by calling 07958 931414.
Benefits
We will work together to maintain a culture that develops and supports you and your team.
This might include funding for a care certificate, a degree or leadership qualifications. Or it might include days off to study, engage in CPD or rotational placements to help you hone your skills. Wherever you are heading in the NHS, we'll help you get there.
Looking after you is important to us.
We strive to help our staff create a healthy work-life balance through flexible working schemes and our family friendly policies.
If you're starting out in the NHS, you'll start with 27 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 33 days plus bank holidays.
You'll benefit from access to our own comprehensive occupational health services, including counselling, onsite wellbeing activities and groups.
Salary is not the only financial benefit
You'll have access to an extensive range of staff discounts on shopping, fitness and leisure options and you can spread the cost of technology and home appliance purchases from major retailers.
You will also have access to other benefits including:
National discount services such as the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts.
Salary sacrifice options including our OFSTED rated outstanding nursery onsite at Exeter
Car lease schemes.
The NHS Pension scheme (one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK).
Cycle to work scheme
These are just a few of the benefits available if the role is something you are interested in, we'd love to hear from you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For full information on the role, the service and living in Devon, please take a look at our comprehensive Consultant Information pack.
More about the role
The Orthodontic departments in Exeter and Barnstaple cover all aspects of Secondary Care Orthodontics and work closely to the NHS England Orthodontic Commissioning Guide. This includes the combined management of patients affected by cleft lip and palate, dental trauma and developmental dental abnormalities. The department has a well-developed high-volume orthognathic surgery service for patients with significant dental skeletal anomalies.
Our team. You will join an established team of two part-time and one full-time Consultant Orthodontists, together with speciality trainees and the successful development of orthodontic therapists integrated into the team. Along with specialist dental nurses, technologists, receptionists and medical secretaries.
We also work closely and collaboratively with colleagues in Oral and Maxillofacial team, Restorative Dentistry services and the Southwest Regional Cleft Lip Palate team.
Please take a look at our Consultant Information pack for full details of this varied role that can offer:
- teaching
- research
- service development
- career progression
- training and development
- a great work life balance
If youre ready for a new challenge and a fantastic quality of life, wed love to hear from you. Please contact Emily Simpson, Executive and Specialist Recruitment by email emily.simpson21@nhs.net or by calling 07958 931414.
Benefits
We will work together to maintain a culture that develops and supports you and your team.
This might include funding for a care certificate, a degree or leadership qualifications. Or it might include days off to study, engage in CPD or rotational placements to help you hone your skills. Wherever you are heading in the NHS, we'll help you get there.
Looking after you is important to us.
We strive to help our staff create a healthy work-life balance through flexible working schemes and our family friendly policies.
If you're starting out in the NHS, you'll start with 27 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 33 days plus bank holidays.
You'll benefit from access to our own comprehensive occupational health services, including counselling, onsite wellbeing activities and groups.
Salary is not the only financial benefit
You'll have access to an extensive range of staff discounts on shopping, fitness and leisure options and you can spread the cost of technology and home appliance purchases from major retailers.
You will also have access to other benefits including:
National discount services such as the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts.
Salary sacrifice options including our OFSTED rated outstanding nursery onsite at Exeter
Car lease schemes.
The NHS Pension scheme (one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK).
Cycle to work scheme
These are just a few of the benefits available if the role is something you are interested in, we'd love to hear from you.
Person Specification
General Requirements
Essential
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Desirable
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Person Specification
General Requirements
Essential
- See job description text above, and (where applicable) you can download a copy of the full job description
Desirable
- See job description text above, and (where applicable) you can download a copy of the full job description
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.
Employer details
Employer name
Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Exeter
Devon
EX2 5DW
Employer's website
https://royaldevon.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
