A Vacancy at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust.
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.
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
We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres 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. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff and the local community.
Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.
Please refer to the detailed job description and personal specification, any other aspects can be discussed with the departmental leads in the JD
This advert closes on Tuesday 4 Mar 2025
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