Speciality Dentist - Paediatric Dentistry

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a healthcare professional to join its dental services across multiple sites in South East London and Kent. You will assess and treat patients referred by general dental practitioners, while upholding high standards of patient care and contributing to audits.

The role includes clinical supervision of junior medical/dental practitioners and leadership within the specialty, with involvement in appraisal processes to maintain professional

Responsibilities

• Assess and plan treatment for patients referred by general dental practitioners.
• Provide high-quality care to patients in collaboration with colleagues.
• Provide clinical supervision of junior medical/dental practitioners.
• Contribute to audit programmes.
• Conduct activities within the contracted service level and operating plan.
• Exercise professional leadership for all staff in the specialty.
• Engage in appraisal processes for peers and junior colleagues.

Job description

Our teams provide services out of five hospitals across South East London and Kent, namely King’s College Hospital, the Princess Royal University Hospital, Orpington Hospital, Queen Mary’s Hospital Sidcup, and Beckenham Beacon.

We employ nearly 14,000 staff, who together treat over 1.5 million patients every year.

We provide a full range of local and specialist services, and our teams are nationally and internationally recognised for our work in liver disease and transplantation, neurosciences, cardiac, haemato-oncology, foetal medicine, stroke, major trauma, and emergency medicine.

Our Strong Roots, Global Reach strategy, published in 2021, sets out our BOLD vision, and commitment towards:

• Brilliant People
• Outstanding care
• Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education

Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do.

At King’s, we are proud to serve a diverse range of communities, and our staff reflect the diversity of the communities we serve, with many people also travelling from all the world to start and develop their careers with us.

The Duties Will Be To

• To assess and treatment plan patients referred by general dental practitioners, the community dental services and internal tertiary referrals.
• Together with other colleagues, to provide a high quality care service to patients.
• Provide clinical supervision of junior medical/dental practitioners.
• Contribute to the audit programmes.
• Conduct all activities within the contracted level of service and operating plan for service(s).
• Exercise professional leadership for all staff working in the specialty. This will include fostering and developing projects focused towards these ends and ensuring that the momentum of post-qualification professional education and other appropriate training is maintained
• . Work in conjunction with clinical and other professional colleagues to ensure that the productivity of staff within the specialty is maintained and their job satisfaction is enhanced. This may include involvement in the appraisal process for peers and/or junior colleagues.

The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King’s to another level.

We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.

King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Amrita Kaur-Roath Job title: Service Delivery Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 0203 299 0035