Dental Clinical Lead

Job description

Job responsibilities

1. To provide dental treatment to identified patient groups such as phobic children and special needs patients by all means available including the use of General Anaesthesia (in a hospital setting), relative analgesia sedation and/or IV sedation where appropriate. This will mean working in differing environments such as community clinic, hospitals, outreach centres or domiciliary visits.
2. To provide an appropriate response to referrals within agreed time frame e.g. urgent or non-urgent depending on the nature of the clients needs
3. To ensure that personal and service targets are achieved.
4. To work with the Head of Dental Services to put in place effective workload management systems to ensure there is an equitable distribution of work appropriate to the staff members grade and experience.
5. To liaise with hospitals, general dental and medical practitioners in connection with the dental care of patients.

To work with the Head of Dental Services to develop innovative practice dealing creatively with service demands, which will include response times to referrals, allocation systems and monitoring systems for management of caseload

Please see attached Job Description

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Dental Qualification i.e. BDS/LDS etc and up to date.
• Valid GDC registration.
• Relevant Higher Registerable Qualification or equivalent experience.
• Current membership of a recognized protection society.
• Postgraduate Qualification in Special Care Dentistry or Equivalent Experience.
• On NHS Performers List or eligible to be.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of providing and organizing Special Care Dental Services within a Primary Care Setting
• Completed VDP training or equivalent (unless exempt)
• General Anaesthesia and sedation experience
• Knowledge of current procedures of treating vulnerable patients

Skills

Essential

• Problem solving experience
• Leadership Skills
• People Skills
• Resourse management skills
• Excellent team working ability
• Safeguarding Adults procedures
• Child protection procedures
• Communication & Coordination skills
• Time management skills
• Evidence based practice
• Knowledge of Dental Public Health issues
• Computer and IM & T skills
• Good communication skills with patients, staff and other health professionals
• In depth knowledge of decontamination procedures
• Ability to travel between clinics on a daily basis

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Leadership ability in delivering services to vulnerable client groups
• Honesty / reliability / flexability
• Good communicator with patients, other staff, other health professionals
• A creative approach to problem solving
• A positive outlook
• Commitment to CPD

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).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Queen Victoria Centre

Thornton Road

Morecambe

LA4 5NN

Employer's website

https://www.bfwh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)