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Sessional Dentist

FCMS

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Job summary

Whats in it for you?

Work alongside our friendly, experienced team, and have the autonomy of being self-employed, with no UDA requirements. Sessional opportunities allow you to pick and choose when and where you want to provide your services and enjoy the flexibility and sense of satisfaction with providing Out of Hours Emergency Dental Care to patients in need.

Our clinical governance committee meets regularly 6/52. We are innovative and are committed to continuously improving our service.

Brew facilities and parking at most sites.

If the above is talking to you! Then wed love to hear from you!

Please contact our Dental Service Lead Ms Jordan McCreedy on 07961 221266 or Jordan.McCreedy2@nhs.net

Main duties of the job

  • Assessing patients
  • Providing short term treatment
  • Delivering urgent dental care from a single surgery

About us

The ethos of FCMS as a social enterprise, health and wellbeing services provider is to be passionate in its drive to ensure that patients and callers remain the central focus of all that it does. Coupled with excellent and well established clinical governance systems and extremely effective operational expertise, it has meant that the company has the ability to strategically visualise, develop, and implement award winning services.

Over many years we have invested in our staff so that we have a core team of highly trained individuals who can manage the needs of our patients and callers. Our staff are able to significantly improve the service delivery and user experience due to their considerable experience and commitment to what they do.

Date posted

07 May 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£63.07 to £73.93 an hour Public Holiday Enhancements

Contract

Bank

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

U0051-24-0047

Job locations

Whitegate Health Centre

150 Whitegate Drive

Blackpool

FY3 9ES


Barbara Castle Way Health Centre

Simmons Street

Blackburn

BB2 1AX


St. Peters Centre

Church Street

Burnley

Lancashire

BB11 2DL


Queen Victoria Centre

Thornton Road

Morecambe

Lancashire

LA4 5NN


Job description

Job responsibilities

What will this involve for you as a supplier?

The service is not UDA driven!

Immediate availability (subject to onboarding checks).

Sole Trader or Ltd Company with direct invoicing.

Shift availability is shown on a platform called RotaMaster. We publish our Rosters 1 month at a time, you select dates you wish to supply us with on here.

Patients are initially triaged by the dental helpline. Where a urgent or emergency appointment is required, patients will be booked into their local EDS clinic.

Patients attending our clinics will usually present with a range of urgent or emergency dental needs. A manageable number of patient slots will be made available. Whilst it is a busy service, we find with the experienced chairside support in place, teamworking and additional support by an on-call senior nurse during clinic hours, our service runs smoothly.

We encourage definitive treatment wherever possible and expect clinicians to follow internal and external guidelines to ensure good practice. We pride ourselves on delivering a high standard of patient care.

Due to the nature of our service and the cohort of patients seen, clinicians must have excellent communication and time-management skills. Its fulfilling and an interesting type or work, suitable for more experienced and also recently qualified clinicians.

Some clinicians who work privately in their 9 to 5 job supply us with sessions and see it as their way of giving back to the community/NHS.

We have self-employed opportunities for Dentists available at the following locations:

Blackburn Barbara Castle Way - BB2 1AX

Burnley St Peters Centre - BB11 2DL

Blackpool - Whitegate Drive Health Centre FY3 9ES (NOT AS MUCH AVAILBLE AT BLACKPOOL)

Morecambe Queen Victoria Centre LA4 5NN

Rate of pay & session times as per table.

Blackpool & Morecambe weeknights

Monday to Thursday

6:00pm

9:30pm

£220.75 (£63.07ph)

Friday

6:00pm

9:30pm

£258.75 (£73.93ph)

Blackburn & Burnley weeknights

Monday to Thursday

6:00pm

9:00pm

£189.21 (£63.07ph)

Friday

6:00pm

9:00pm

£221.79 (£73.93ph)

Blackburn, Burnley weekends

Saturday & Sunday

2.30pm

6pm

£258.75 (73.93ph)

Morecambe weekends

Saturday & Sunday

1.30pm

5pm

£258.75 (73.93ph)

Blackpool - weekends

Saturday full shift OR

10.30am

6pm

£517.51 (73.93ph)

Saturday split shift option

10.30am until 2pm

2.30pm until 6pm

£258.75 (73.93ph) for each shift.

Sunday (can offer split shift as above)

10.30am

6pm

As above

Sunday 2nd dentist

2.30pm

6pm

£258 (73.93ph)

Clinicians must be eligible to work in the UK, be GDC registered (without conditions or restrictions), have an active NHS performer number, have appropriate indemnity in place and an up-to-date enhanced DBS check.

Job description

Job responsibilities

What will this involve for you as a supplier?

The service is not UDA driven!

Immediate availability (subject to onboarding checks).

Sole Trader or Ltd Company with direct invoicing.

Shift availability is shown on a platform called RotaMaster. We publish our Rosters 1 month at a time, you select dates you wish to supply us with on here.

Patients are initially triaged by the dental helpline. Where a urgent or emergency appointment is required, patients will be booked into their local EDS clinic.

Patients attending our clinics will usually present with a range of urgent or emergency dental needs. A manageable number of patient slots will be made available. Whilst it is a busy service, we find with the experienced chairside support in place, teamworking and additional support by an on-call senior nurse during clinic hours, our service runs smoothly.

We encourage definitive treatment wherever possible and expect clinicians to follow internal and external guidelines to ensure good practice. We pride ourselves on delivering a high standard of patient care.

Due to the nature of our service and the cohort of patients seen, clinicians must have excellent communication and time-management skills. Its fulfilling and an interesting type or work, suitable for more experienced and also recently qualified clinicians.

Some clinicians who work privately in their 9 to 5 job supply us with sessions and see it as their way of giving back to the community/NHS.

We have self-employed opportunities for Dentists available at the following locations:

Blackburn Barbara Castle Way - BB2 1AX

Burnley St Peters Centre - BB11 2DL

Blackpool - Whitegate Drive Health Centre FY3 9ES (NOT AS MUCH AVAILBLE AT BLACKPOOL)

Morecambe Queen Victoria Centre LA4 5NN

Rate of pay & session times as per table.

Blackpool & Morecambe weeknights

Monday to Thursday

6:00pm

9:30pm

£220.75 (£63.07ph)

Friday

6:00pm

9:30pm

£258.75 (£73.93ph)

Blackburn & Burnley weeknights

Monday to Thursday

6:00pm

9:00pm

£189.21 (£63.07ph)

Friday

6:00pm

9:00pm

£221.79 (£73.93ph)

Blackburn, Burnley weekends

Saturday & Sunday

2.30pm

6pm

£258.75 (73.93ph)

Morecambe weekends

Saturday & Sunday

1.30pm

5pm

£258.75 (73.93ph)

Blackpool - weekends

Saturday full shift OR

10.30am

6pm

£517.51 (73.93ph)

Saturday split shift option

10.30am until 2pm

2.30pm until 6pm

£258.75 (73.93ph) for each shift.

Sunday (can offer split shift as above)

10.30am

6pm

As above

Sunday 2nd dentist

2.30pm

6pm

£258 (73.93ph)

Clinicians must be eligible to work in the UK, be GDC registered (without conditions or restrictions), have an active NHS performer number, have appropriate indemnity in place and an up-to-date enhanced DBS check.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Active NHS Performer
  • GDC Registered
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Active NHS Performer
  • GDC Registered

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).

Employer details

Employer name

FCMS

Address

Whitegate Health Centre

150 Whitegate Drive

Blackpool

FY3 9ES


Employer's website

http://www.fcms-nw.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

FCMS

Address

Whitegate Health Centre

150 Whitegate Drive

Blackpool

FY3 9ES


Employer's website

http://www.fcms-nw.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:

Jordan Mccreedy

jordan.mccreedy2@nhs.net

Date posted

07 May 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£63.07 to £73.93 an hour Public Holiday Enhancements

Contract

Bank

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

U0051-24-0047

Job locations

Whitegate Health Centre

150 Whitegate Drive

Blackpool

FY3 9ES


Barbara Castle Way Health Centre

Simmons Street

Blackburn

BB2 1AX


St. Peters Centre

Church Street

Burnley

Lancashire

BB11 2DL


Queen Victoria Centre

Thornton Road

Morecambe

Lancashire

LA4 5NN


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