Job summary
Calderdale & Huddersfield Foundation NHS Trust are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and experienced clinician Specialty Doctor/Dentist in Oral and Maxillofacial surgery. This is an exciting opportunity for the successful post holder to help build and develop an Oral surgery and Maxillofacial surgery service in this large region serving a population of 646,600 people and growing. To this end we seek a specialty doctor/dentist who can demonstrate their ability to provide Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery services to an excellent standard, who is able to work alongside our Oral Surgery consultants to lead and shape services and who can interact well with our Cross-Site Maxillofacial Surgery Consultants from the neighbouring Trust (Bradford Teaching Hospital), local GPs and dentists.
The post-holder will be expected to be able to provide a full range of Oral Surgery services and demonstrate a commitment to teaching. The appointee will join the Oral and Maxillofacial team and will work to provide care to the patients alongside the Oral Surgery and Oral and Maxillofacial surgery consultants. The successful candidate will be required to undertake managerial and administrative duties associated with the care of their patients and will be expected to participate in all facets of departmental activity.
Main duties of the job
This post is to help deliver the Oral Surgery and Maxillofacial Surgery Service, in conjunction with our consultant team.
The appointee will work with colleagues within the CHFT Oral Surgery Department, Bradford Teaching Hospital Maxillofacial Surgeons, Calderdale and Huddersfield Clinical Commissioning Group and Local Primary Care Dental Groups to deliver a comprehensive Oral Surgery service to the population served by CHFT
This requires a flexible attitude to working practices, managing patients in partnership with other colleagues and professional staff and making the best possible use of resources put at the disposal of the Department. This is likely to require negotiated changes of duties and time-tabled sessions from time to time. Cross-site working is rarely required for this role but may be necessary especially when dealing with the paediatric cohort.
The timetable below indicates the proposed weekly duties to be performed by the consultant but would be open to modification depending on the expertise of the successful applicant.
The successful candidate will have a job plan tailored to meet the collective needs of the individual and services provided, to include a selection or all of the following:
General Oral surgery clinics
Local Anaesthesia treatment
Clinical triage
Patient administration
SPA (1 PA)
Audit and Research opportunities
Monthly Clinical Governance
About us
We employ more than 6,500 staffwho deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals,Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, healthcentres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.
We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.
We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.
We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation.Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS- yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boardslisten to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff andthe local community.
Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in thechanges to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the detailed job description and personal specification , any other aspects can be discussed with the departmental leads in the JD
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the detailed job description and personal specification , any other aspects can be discussed with the departmental leads in the JD
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BDS or equivalent
- Applicants must have Full Registration with the General Dental Council and hold a Licence to Practise
Desirable
- Relevant higher degree
- Sedation qualification or equivalent
Experience and Achievements
Essential
- Must have 4 years post graduate experience including 2 years within the Maxillo-Facial Surgery/ Oral Surgery Specialty
- Must be able to demonstrate a high level of clinical experience and competence in all aspects of the Oral Maxillo-Facial Surgery specialty
Desirable
- Attendance at a recognised management course
- Understanding current issues within Oral Maxillo-Facial Surgery and the future direction of the specialty
- Understanding current issues within the wider NHS
- Shows ability to work with and lead others across professions
Audit and research
Essential
- Knowledge of Audit principles and evidence of participation in and completion of audit projects
Desirable
- Critical Appraisal Skills
- Evidence of knowledge of research methodology
Practical/Intellectual Skills/Personal Qualities
Essential
- Evidence of continual learning and development
Desirable
- Understands self (strengths and weaknesses) and impact of behaviour on others
- Evidence of innovation
- Ability to use a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation software, email and internet browser
Teaching and Training
Desirable
- Experience of and enthusiasm for clinical teaching of postgraduate doctors and non-medical staff.
- Academic achievements/evidence of familiarity with research methods which have resulted in publications
- Training in clinical and educational supervision
- Attendance at a teaching course
- Formal qualification in teaching/education
Disposition-Adjustment/Attitude/Commitment
Essential
- Good communication and empathy skills with patients
- Evidence of willingness to participate in a multi-disciplinary team environment to provide an integrated service
- Ability to work as a member of a team, both through communication and sharing workload
- Ability to manage high pressure situations e.g. clinical crisis
- Ability to prioritise and organise workload and co-ordinate staff
- Ability to integrate the care of a patient by many and various other clinical staff
- Willingness to work flexibly to deliver clinically effective and cost effective healthcare
General
Essential
- Eligibility to work in the UK
- Ability to work in various locations throughout the network of services provided by Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
- For areas requiring EPP Clearance (Exposure Prone Procedures), this will also be a requirement of the health screening
- An enhanced DBS disclosure will be required with the Disclosure and Barring Service
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BDS or equivalent
- Applicants must have Full Registration with the General Dental Council and hold a Licence to Practise
Desirable
- Relevant higher degree
- Sedation qualification or equivalent
Experience and Achievements
Essential
- Must have 4 years post graduate experience including 2 years within the Maxillo-Facial Surgery/ Oral Surgery Specialty
- Must be able to demonstrate a high level of clinical experience and competence in all aspects of the Oral Maxillo-Facial Surgery specialty
Desirable
- Attendance at a recognised management course
- Understanding current issues within Oral Maxillo-Facial Surgery and the future direction of the specialty
- Understanding current issues within the wider NHS
- Shows ability to work with and lead others across professions
Audit and research
Essential
- Knowledge of Audit principles and evidence of participation in and completion of audit projects
Desirable
- Critical Appraisal Skills
- Evidence of knowledge of research methodology
Practical/Intellectual Skills/Personal Qualities
Essential
- Evidence of continual learning and development
Desirable
- Understands self (strengths and weaknesses) and impact of behaviour on others
- Evidence of innovation
- Ability to use a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation software, email and internet browser
Teaching and Training
Desirable
- Experience of and enthusiasm for clinical teaching of postgraduate doctors and non-medical staff.
- Academic achievements/evidence of familiarity with research methods which have resulted in publications
- Training in clinical and educational supervision
- Attendance at a teaching course
- Formal qualification in teaching/education
Disposition-Adjustment/Attitude/Commitment
Essential
- Good communication and empathy skills with patients
- Evidence of willingness to participate in a multi-disciplinary team environment to provide an integrated service
- Ability to work as a member of a team, both through communication and sharing workload
- Ability to manage high pressure situations e.g. clinical crisis
- Ability to prioritise and organise workload and co-ordinate staff
- Ability to integrate the care of a patient by many and various other clinical staff
- Willingness to work flexibly to deliver clinically effective and cost effective healthcare
General
Essential
- Eligibility to work in the UK
- Ability to work in various locations throughout the network of services provided by Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
- For areas requiring EPP Clearance (Exposure Prone Procedures), this will also be a requirement of the health screening
- An enhanced DBS disclosure will be required with the Disclosure and Barring Service
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.
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).
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.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
