Consultant Orthodontist

Job summary

Applications are invited for a consultant orthodontist post to join our multi-disciplinary team in the Orthodontic & Maxillofacial Unit at Lincoln County Hospital on a full time basis, however, part-time applications are encouraged and will be considered. Orthodontics at ULHT provides a clinical service across the beautiful county of Lincolnshire, working in close cooperation with the Maxillofacial surgeons and the regional cleft lip and palate team to deliver excellent patient centred care. The department also has a long history of clinical teaching with a trainee based on the Lincoln site.

Applicants must be on the GDC specialist list in Orthodontics and hold intercollegiate speciality fellowship examination in Orthodontics or equivalent. A full person specification is available within the job description.

This consultant position is a replacement post based at Lincoln County Hospital or Grantham and District Hospital, working across both sites within job-planned activity. This post involves clinical supervision of our specialist registrar trainee who works at Lincoln Hospital and Charles Clifford Dental Hospital, Sheffield. Clinical work focuses on patients with severe malocclusions and those requiring multi-disciplinary care, but some less complex cases are also treated by our Dentist with Special Interest (DwSI) colleagues.

Main duties of the job

The appointee will be expected, in conjunction with his/her colleagues, to provide a comprehensive, county-wide Orthodontic service to the population of Lincolnshire.

In addition, they will be required to:-

• Take part in joint orthognathic clinics and participate in the treatment of patients undergoing orthognathic surgery, oral surgery and patients under the care of the regional cleft lip and palate service.
• Take part in team, department, regional and national Audits.
• Have continuing responsibility for patients in their care and for the proper functioning of the department.
• Be involved in research where appropriate.
• Participate proactively in the development and management of the Orthodontic service in line with the Trust's Business Plan.

About us

We are one of the largest Trusts in the UK and provide a comprehensive range of health services to the local population. Lincoln is the county town of Lincolnshire. Pilgrim hospital is situated in the Market Town of Boston, and is a modern complex of 566 beds. Lincoln medical school is now in its third year of student intake and there are opportunities for Structured Teaching via the newly built Undergraduate Medical Centre. The Trust is also a part of the Comprehensive Local Research network with a dedicated Diabetes Research Nurse support and opportunities and infrastructure for Clinical Research are in place.

With its open spaces and plenty of green countryside Lincolnshire remains largely unspoiled with less hustle and bustle that grips so much of the rest of the country- it remains a place where people can live and work in comfort. The county scores highly when it comes to education from nursery through to secondary school and has a growing university culture at the City of Lincoln. In your free time there are many places of interest to visit in Lincolnshire with motor racing at Cadwell Park, lakes for sailing, some of the best coarse fishing in the country and horse racing at Market Rasen, not to mention Lincoln Cathedral and Castle and the good balance of traditional eateries throughout the county.

For more information on what it's like to live and work in Lincolnshire please see the link below.

https://www.beinlincolnshire.com/