Senior Trust Grade in Oral Surgery (Non-resident)

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Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Trust Grade in Oral Surgery at Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. This role involves providing high-quality care in oral surgery, working collaboratively across multiple sites, and contributing to teaching and training within the dental team. The successful candidate will have a strong background in oral surgery, excellent communication skills, and a commitment to continuous professional development.

Benefits

Full NHS terms and conditions including extensive holidays

Attractive relocation payment

Discounts for local and national retailers

Dedicated well-being services for all employees

Flexible working where possible

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years’ experience post qualification, with at least 6 years in Oral Surgery.
• Experience in postgraduate or undergraduate teaching and training.
• Experience in providing dentoalveolar surgery under various anaesthesia.

Responsibilities

• Provide care for adults and children under various anaesthetic methods.
• Work in the urgent care department assisting patients in acute pain.
• Involve in clinical undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Communication

Risk Management

Negotiation

Time management

Education

BDS

Full GDC Registration

MFDS or MJDF or Equivalent

Post-graduate Sedation Qualification

Post Graduate Teaching Qualification

Job description

Main area Oral Surgery Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Specialist Grade Contract Fixed term: 12 months (Monday - Sunday 08:00-20:00 40 hours) Hours Full time - 40 hours per week (Potential evening and weekend working.) Job ref 820-7193886-DEN

Employer Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Birmingham Dental Hospital Town Birmingham Salary £68,287 - £116,381 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 01/06/2025 23:59

Senior Trust Grade in Oral Surgery (Non-resident)

NHS Medical & Dental: Specialist Grade

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to work in the Oral Surgery Dental Team in Birmingham Community Healthcare Trust. The post will be split across multiple sites including Birmingham Dental Hospital, Lyng Health Centre and Dental Outreach Centre, Boots, High Street, Birmingham.

This post within the team supports providing care for both adults and children under local anaesthetic, sedation and general anaesthetic. In addition to this, you will be working in the urgent care department in the Birmingham Dental Hospital, helping patients who are in acute pain. This post will involve appropriate lead roles delegated by the Head of Service.

This post is for 40 hours a week. Part time hours can be discussed and negotiated if required.

Main duties of the job

The department is excited to have the opportunity to expand its team in line with local need. The oral surgery team works in close collaboration with the Oral Medicine, Orthodontics, Paediatric Dentistry, Restorative and Special Care services. We work with the University of Birmingham School of Dentistry as one team and the successful candidates will be expected to be involved in clinical undergraduate, as well as postgraduate, teaching. We are involved in DCT, StR, Hygiene & Therapy and Dental Nurse training. We are also looking to expand our dental sedation training courses. We offer treatment under LA, sedation, and GA.

Successful candidates will be expected to offer flexibility around 3 session days, which are well established within the department.

Working for our organisation

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Be Part of Our Team...

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see theattached job descriptionand person specification for further details.

Informal enquiries are encouraged to Harriet Anstey, Consultant in Oral Surgery and Head of Service for the Department. Please contact Harriet Anstey via Adedayo Oqunpolaon 0121 466 5136 .

Person specification

Qualifications

• BDS.
• Full GDC Registration with a Licence to Practice
• MFDS or MJDF or Equivalent
• Post-graduate Sedation Qualification or documented experience in line with IACSD
• On the GDC Specialist Register in Oral Surgery
• Post Graduate Teaching Qualification
• Relevant Higher Degree e.g. MD, PhD, MSc or other additional clinical qualifications
• Membership in Oral Surgery

Experience

• Shall have completed minimum of Minimum of 7 years’ experience post qualification, with at least 6 years’ experience in Oral Surgery (either continuous period or aggregated) since obtaining a primary Dental qualification.
• Experience in postgraduate or undergraduate teaching and training
• Experience in providing dentoalveolar surgery under local anaesthetic, general anaesthetic , inhalation and intravenous sedation.
• Experience of working autonomously within a clinical environment
• Examples of commitment to the specialty in addition to programmed activities
• Special Interest in Temporomandibular Joint dysfunction

Skills and Knowledge

• Knowledge of Risk Management Knowledge of legislation, Department of Health Guidance and literature and its implications for clinical practice.
• Ability to take a clinical leadership role in a multidisciplinary team, ensuring high quality care.
• Skills and sensitivity in being able to negotiate with patients, relatives and other professionals where opinions differ.
• A high-level ability to communicate effectively, at both a written and oral level, complex and clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers and others.
• Ability to travel between Trust sites and out of Trust.
• Evidence of specific achievements that demonstrate leadership skills.
• Skills in managing time and prioritising clinical work.
• Ability to critically appraise published research and apply this to current clinical practice.
• Evidence of Validated log book

Personal Qualities

• Personal integrity and ability to work ethically.
• Strong team working mentality.
• Commitment to and evidence of active participation in Continuous Professional Development
• Ability to appraise own performance as a doctor and reflect on development needs.

Disability Confident Employer and Guaranteed Interview Scheme

BCHC offers a guaranteed interview to any candidate who is Disabled, Neurodiverse, has a hidden or long term health condition as recognised under the Equality Act 2010, providing they meet the essential criteria of the job role, as set out in the person specification. We encourage applicants to submit their applications and to request any reasonable adjustments where required.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Birmingham is a fantastic place to live and we serve a wide range of people and communities. BCHC are an advocate of diversity and strive to mirror the community we serve as much possible.

We are committed to and actively promote equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals from all areas of the community who meet the specific criteria are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage/civil partnerships.

Promoting Workforce Equality

In response to data held by BCHC which demonstrates that individuals from particular protected characteristics are under-represented, BCHC are striving to redress these imbalances. In order to do this, the Trust is committed to the employment and career development of individuals with these protected characteristics. As part of this commitment and given this under-representation, the Trust guarantees an interview to any applicants from under-represented groups for positions at Band 8a and above whose application meets the essential criteria for the post as detailed on the Person Specification.

The Trust is currently under-represented in terms of people who identify as Black, Minority Ethnic (BME) and welcomes applicants from these communities. Selection will be on the basis of merit. In order to ensure the diversity of our workforce and understand the differing needs of our communities, the Trust is committed to the principles of Positive Action.

Flexible Working

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) supports a variety of flexible working practices and, where possible (given our range of services and community settings) dependent upon the requirements associated with the role, will actively consider requests made and support these where practically possible. This may include hybrid patterns of working to enable colleagues to request the flexibility of a mixture of home/base working.

In accordance with the NHS People Promise, the Trust is committed to facilitating a healthy work/life balance that is essential to health and wellbeing and to making BCHC a ‘Great Place to Work’. We will be happy to discuss and consider all requests relating to working patterns and hours at your interview so please do ask!

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Benefits of working for us:

• Full NHS terms and conditions including extensive holidays, Agenda for Change pay with enhancements
• Attractive relocation payment if you relocate to the local area.
• Discounts for local and national retailers
• Dedicated well-being services for all employees
• Flexible working where possible

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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.