Consultant Oral Surgeon

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Consultant Oral Surgeon to work within Northumbria Healthcare. This is a permanent contract based in Northumbria Healthcare, to work in sites across Northumbria, North Tyneside and working jointly into Newcastle Upon Tyne on a Service Level Agreement.

The successful candidate will be working with the other Oral Surgeons in Northumbria Healthcare and Newcastle Hospitals with the opportunity to develop skills working alongside colleagues in other specialities where appropriate. The post holder will need to be able to work flexibly to address the priorities of the service, balancing time between 2 trusts and maintaining flexibility to support RTT performance targets with the benefit of having a largely predictable schedule. The post-holder will contribute to the senior cover at the Dental Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne and contribute to MDT and training.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will be employed by Northumbria Healthcare working into Newcastle Hospitals regularly as a joint appointment. Northumbria Healthcare boasts excellent purpose built facilities in at Hexham General Hospital in a unit shared with Colleagues in Community Dental whilst Newcastle houses a Dental Hospital.

To provide oral surgery services to the population of Northumbria, North Tyneside and Newcastle upon Tyne. The job plan will be made up of outpatient and telephone clinics, Local anaesthetic and General anaesthetic sessions, MDT, training, education and service development.

About us

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

As part of its pursuit of excellence, the Trust has introduced a clinically-based management structure to ensure patient care and medical interests always drive decision-making. The consultant body is both cohesive and innovative and a number of senior clinicians are prominent nationally.

Date posted

04 July 2024

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Consultant

Salary

£99,532 to £131,964 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

319-6414600NR

Job locations

Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hopsital

Northumbria Way

Cramlington

NE23 6NZ

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Job Plan will typically include an average of up to 8 Programmed Activities for Direct Clinical Care duties and 2 Programmed Activities for Supporting Professional Activities. Please see the attached job description for more information on the role and key responsibilities.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Membership of RCS in Oral Surgery
Oral Surgery experience equivalent to that required to gain entry to UK CCT
To be eligible for consideration for a Consultant appointment by an Appointments Committee, candidates must be fully registered on the UK General Dental Council's Specialist Register. Specialist Registrars may apply if within 6 months of CCT at date of application
The appointee will be required to maintain full GDC or GMC registration and revalidation and should follow the GMC Code of Good Medical Practice
Demonstrable interest in all aspects of Oral Surgery management
Experience in service development

Desirable

Formal training in Clinical Supervision/Training the Trainers

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Membership of RCS in Oral Surgery
Oral Surgery experience equivalent to that required to gain entry to UK CCT
To be eligible for consideration for a Consultant appointment by an Appointments Committee, candidates must be fully registered on the UK General Dental Council's Specialist Register. Specialist Registrars may apply if within 6 months of CCT at date of application
The appointee will be required to maintain full GDC or GMC registration and revalidation and should follow the GMC Code of Good Medical Practice
Demonstrable interest in all aspects of Oral Surgery management
Experience in service development

Desirable

Formal training in Clinical Supervision/Training the Trainers

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).