Main area Specialist In Special Care Dentistry Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Salaried Dentist - C Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 22.5 hours per week Job ref 220-WHT-3068
Employer Whittington Health NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Heart of Hounslow Town Hounslow Salary £94,007 - £108,038 pro rata per inclusive of HCAs Salary period Yearly Closing 07/05/2025 23:59
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Job overview
Specialist in Special Care Dentistry
We are looking for a dedicated and compassionate Specialist in Special Care Dentistry to join our dynamic and forward-thinking community dental team.
We are a large organisation providing paediatric and special care dentistry across ten boroughs in north London. You will work alongside our dedicated team including specialists, therapists, and oral health promoters, in fully equipped clinics and be well-supported by an experienced nursing and management team. Dental care is carried out in our modern clinics, on a domiciliary basis, or in hospital sites.
The postholder will mainly work from Hounslow with the expectation to cover and support neighbouring boroughs
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will be responsible for specialist treatment of patients referred to the service, as well as supporting with clinical leadership for the overall development of services for special care patients. Care may involve the provision of treatment under IS, IV and IN sedation, and general anaesthesia. The majority of the post will involve providing clinical care but there will also be responsibilities in the areas of clinical governance, training, management and supervision.
Working for our organisation
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
CLINICAL
a) To provide specialist clinical care to adults with additional or special care needs. The following main care groups are included under this description:
§ People with Learning Disabilities
§ Medically-compromised and physically disabled adults
§ Adults with mental health problems
§ Adults with challenging behaviour, anxiety or dental phobia
§ Adults in secure units and prisons
a) To provide a comprehensive dental treatment service for patients who require special care
b) To manage the delivery of special care dentistry within appropriate venues including on a domiciliary basis, and to ensure that treatment is provided safely, effectively and efficiently.
c) To provide clinical care under sedation, and/or general anaesthesia when required
d) To demonstrate professional and clinical leadership in the clinical setting in providing treatment safely and to a high standard
e) To provide clinical care for other CDS patients, according to the needs of the service
f) To comply with all relevant professional and Trust policies, guidelines and standards including mandatory training, health and safety and infection control
g) To provide clinical cover, when required, in health centres other than their base clinic, and in other settings such as care homes and hospital
LEADERSHIP and MANAGEMENT
a) To provide clinical supervision of junior staff, including trainees in special care dentistry as a shared responsibility with other colleagues
b) To carry out appraisals of the work of junior colleagues
c) To demonstrate leadership in the development of special care dentistry locally, and to make presentations to stakeholders and commissioners where appropriate
d) To take on management roles as part of the senior leadership team in Dental Services
ORAL HEALTH PROMOTION AND PREVENTION
To develop and evaluate health promotion and preventive programmes, in collaboration with others, that reflects the needs of adults with special needs and their carers.
COLLABORATION
a) To work with others in the health, local authority and voluntary sectors to raise awareness of the oral health needs of adults with special needs, promote oral health and to improve access to dental services
b) To work with colleagues in other sectors of dentistry to ensure that adults with special needs receive high quality care in the most appropriate setting. This may involve working with colleagues in secondary care, and on a pan-London basis.
NEEDS ASSESSMENT
a) To carry out screening and surveys of adults with special needs to identify their oral health needs.
b) To provide written reports, as required to commissioners.
TRAINING
a) To support induction, support and training to community dental staff, including professions complementary to dentistry, as part of developing dental services for adults with special needs
b) To provide training and advice when requested
c) To be responsible for your own current and future development needs and be highly motivated in updating knowledge, skills and abilities relevant to a leadership role
Person specification
Qualifications
* Eligible for full GDC registration
* On the GDC specialist list in Special Care Dentistry
* Post-graduate qualification/s relevant to Special Care Dentistry
* Post-graduate qualification/s relevant to Special Care Dentistry
* Evidence of continuing post-graduate education
Experience
* Additional NHS experience in Special Care Dentistry following the attainment of the above standard
* Experience or training such that the applicant has reached a standard equivalent to that expected after 3 years of specialist training in Special Care Dentistry
* Extensive experience in the clinical management of a wide range of special care patients
* Experience of providing dental treatment under sedation and general anaesthesia
* Previous community dental service experience
Research Teaching Presenting
* Experience of presentations to key audiences
* Experience of providing teaching and /or training in the NHS
* Experience of leading clinical supervision
Clinical Governance & Quality Audit
* Experience of involvement in clinical governance and risk management
* An understanding of the indicators of quality relevant to NHS services
* Experience of audit
Management
* Experience of either assessing, appraising or managing staff
* Experience of project management
SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS
To comply with the Trust’s Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:
* Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
* Ensure you are familiar and comply with theLondon Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
* Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
* Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
* Participate in required training and supervision.
* Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct
Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Your application form –
* Provide only business email address for your referees – we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.
* Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.
Our processes –
* Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
* If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunatelythis means you have not been successfullyshortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
* Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems – occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.
* Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.
Other important information –
* Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you areeligible under theUKVI points based system .
* Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
* In submitting an application form, you authorise WhittingtonHealth NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.
If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks youridentity and right to work documentation will be verifiedremotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk
Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided
The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation
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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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