Job summary
The Specialist Dental Service offers countywide Special Care Dentistry and Paediatric Dentistry across Northamptonshire.
Dental care is delivered across 5 sites providing a number of adjuncts to facilitate access for patients including mobility equipment, clinical holding, nitrous oxide and benzodiazepine sedation. In addition to this, the Specialist Dental Service also provides Intermediate Minor Oral Surgery that cannot be managed in general dental practices, an Oral Health Promotion Service and works collaboratively with the two acute hospitals within the areas to provide care under general anaesthetic.
Purpose of the Job
- To provide clinical and team management of the Dental Nursing and administrative staff, to support the delivery of clinical services within the Specialist Dental Service.
- To work collaboratively with the Clinical Lead and the Dental Nurse Manager to provide Senior Leadership to the service, co-ordinating service delivery and ensuring that the Specialist Dental Service is delivering high quality care that is safe and effective whilst in line with national standards and the commissioning arrangements in place.
- To provide operational day to day management of the dental service including oversight of budgets, first line management of HR process and submission of reports in relation to performance, quality & risk.
Main duties of the job
Job Summary
- To provide a comprehensive clinical leadership & operational management function relating to service delivery including budget oversight, management of first line HR issues and performance, quality & risk issues, taking remedial action where necessary.
- To provide professional leadership and oversight of practice to the Dental Nurse team, provide supervision and develop clinical skills within the dental nursing team.
- To support maintenance of high standards of dental nursing within the Specialist Dental Service including decontamination, cross infection control, clinical audit and other governance processes related to dental nursing.
- To support and promote a learning environment within the workplace, including identification of training needs for Dental staff and to oversee student placements within the service.
- To liaise with Clinical Lead, Dental Nurse Manager and Service Manager to ensure that staffing and governance processes reflect the needs of staff and the service
About us
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.
Person Specification
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to work countywide, at times moving between the services bases throughout the day. This will require access to a vehicle
- Physical effort will be required to include working in theatre sessions, transporting equipment and standing for prolonged periods of time
- Occasional periods of prolonged concentration will be required when analysing performance information, report writing and formulating future strategies with many competing priorities
Behaviours and Values
Essential
- Act as a role model for NHFT Leadership Behaviours
- Ability to work flexibly and respond to change
- Leading, motivating and inspiring the team daily, bringing all team members together in providing high standards of clinical work and professional behaviours at all times
- Able to deal with interruptions/queries from colleagues throughout the day
- Ability to understand the limitations of one's role and know when to seek support, advice and a second opinion
- Ability to deal with conflict in an appropriate and fair manner
- Ability to delegate, but provide oversight and reassurance to others
- Ability to communicate with people at all levels
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Active registration with the General Dental Council
- Evidence of on-going and up to date CPD which is relevant to the role and clinical areas
- Good standard of general education to GCSE or equivalent
- Fluent in written and verbal English
- Management qualification or other relevant experience
- Leadership qualification or other relevant experience
- Evidence of and ability to carry out clinical and managerial supervision and appraisal of others
- Experience of dealing with complex and challenging clinical scenarios
- QSIR training or equivalent experience
- Experience of data collection, analysis and report writing
- Experience of reviewing service performance and implementing changes in ways of working if required
- Experience of managing service risk and working collaboratively with others to identify suitable mitigations, escalating any concerns or unmanaged risks appropriately in a timely manner
- Experience of managing and leading teams in a clinical setting to include roster and absence management
- IT literate with the ability to use electronic systems, spreadsheets/ databases and produce reports and statistics
- Experience of managing concerns and complaints
- Experience of supporting service recruitment and use of TRAC or equivalent
- Knowledge and experience of HR policies and procedures, including managing challenging situations to a satisfactory conclusion
Desirable
- Holder of a degree level qualification relevant to the area of work
- Experience of service budget management, working within the services financial envelope
- Experience of utilising service user co-production and involvement
- Evidence of a role within clinical education of less experienced staff/ students to include supporting student placements
- Experience of maintaining cross infection control processes and adherence to Trust policies on the decontamination of instruments
- Experience of ensuring equipment remains fit for use and that appropriate maintenance contracts are in place with items being serviced as per the service schedule
- Ability to oversee the correct processing of EDI claims
- Experience of writing business cases and identifying areas requiring service improvement
- Experience of using specialist computer systems to maintain patient records, ideally with a working knowledge of Carestream R4 and Compass
Person Specification
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to work countywide, at times moving between the services bases throughout the day. This will require access to a vehicle
- Physical effort will be required to include working in theatre sessions, transporting equipment and standing for prolonged periods of time
- Occasional periods of prolonged concentration will be required when analysing performance information, report writing and formulating future strategies with many competing priorities
Behaviours and Values
Essential
- Act as a role model for NHFT Leadership Behaviours
- Ability to work flexibly and respond to change
- Leading, motivating and inspiring the team daily, bringing all team members together in providing high standards of clinical work and professional behaviours at all times
- Able to deal with interruptions/queries from colleagues throughout the day
- Ability to understand the limitations of one's role and know when to seek support, advice and a second opinion
- Ability to deal with conflict in an appropriate and fair manner
- Ability to delegate, but provide oversight and reassurance to others
- Ability to communicate with people at all levels
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Active registration with the General Dental Council
- Evidence of on-going and up to date CPD which is relevant to the role and clinical areas
- Good standard of general education to GCSE or equivalent
- Fluent in written and verbal English
- Management qualification or other relevant experience
- Leadership qualification or other relevant experience
- Evidence of and ability to carry out clinical and managerial supervision and appraisal of others
- Experience of dealing with complex and challenging clinical scenarios
- QSIR training or equivalent experience
- Experience of data collection, analysis and report writing
- Experience of reviewing service performance and implementing changes in ways of working if required
- Experience of managing service risk and working collaboratively with others to identify suitable mitigations, escalating any concerns or unmanaged risks appropriately in a timely manner
- Experience of managing and leading teams in a clinical setting to include roster and absence management
- IT literate with the ability to use electronic systems, spreadsheets/ databases and produce reports and statistics
- Experience of managing concerns and complaints
- Experience of supporting service recruitment and use of TRAC or equivalent
- Knowledge and experience of HR policies and procedures, including managing challenging situations to a satisfactory conclusion
Desirable
- Holder of a degree level qualification relevant to the area of work
- Experience of service budget management, working within the services financial envelope
- Experience of utilising service user co-production and involvement
- Evidence of a role within clinical education of less experienced staff/ students to include supporting student placements
- Experience of maintaining cross infection control processes and adherence to Trust policies on the decontamination of instruments
- Experience of ensuring equipment remains fit for use and that appropriate maintenance contracts are in place with items being serviced as per the service schedule
- Ability to oversee the correct processing of EDI claims
- Experience of writing business cases and identifying areas requiring service improvement
- Experience of using specialist computer systems to maintain patient records, ideally with a working knowledge of Carestream R4 and Compass
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).
Additional information
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).
