Speciality Doctor Oral Surgery

Northumbria Group.; North Shields; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing Hub

Flexible working options

Generous annual leave and pension

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Specialty Doctor in Oral Surgery to join a multi-site team across Northumbria and North Tyneside. The role involves outpatient and theatre sessions, MDT participation and ongoing service development.

The post requires MFDS/FDS or MJDF, full GDC registration and a track record of academic excellence, with at least 7 years post-qualification experience and 5 years in a related specialty. Sponsorship and DBS checks may apply.

Qualifications

• MFDS/FDS or MJDF qualification beyond basic dental training.
• Full GDC registration and Licence to Practice.
• Evidence of academic excellence such as prizes or merits.
• Sedation qualification or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Provide oral surgery services to the population of Northumbria and North Tyneside; balance outpatient and clinic sessions, local anaesthetic and GA sessions, MDT, training and service development.
• Manage a job plan with programmes of activities for Direct Clinical Care and Supporting Professional Activities.

Education

MFDS/ FDS or MJDF

Full registration and a License to Practice with the General Dental Council (GDC)

Academic excellence e.g. prizes, merits, awards

Sedation qualification or equivalent

Job description

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you:

• Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
• Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
• A range of flexible working opportunities
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
• Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
• Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We work closely with Kids First Nurseries that are based within our trust grounds at Wansbeck, North Tyneside and Hexham hospitals to care for our Trust family's children, they offer care for children from 6 weeks old up to 4 years. There are a number of funding options run by the government to help working parents, including Early Years Funding and Tax Free Childcare.

Flexible working offers choice in where, when, and how we work, ensuring patients remain at the heart of all we do. It’s open to everyone, and we aim to find solutions that work for both you and the organisation. All arrangements must be reasonable and balanced to maintain safe and effective patient care.

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Speciality Doctor in Oral Surgery to work within Northumbria Healthcare. This is a permanent contract based in Northumbria Healthcare, to work in sites across Northumbria, North Tyneside.

The successful candidate will be working with the other Oral Surgeons in Northumbria Healthcare, and Maxillofacial colleagues from Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals who provide clinical activity into the service in Northumbria. The post holder will need to be able to work flexibly to address the priorities of the service, to support RTT performance targets with the benefit of having a largely predictable schedule.

Please note we reserve the right to close a vacancy early if a suitable number of applications are received.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will be employed by Northumbria Healthcare which boasts excellent purpose built facilities in at Hexham General Hospital in a unit shared with Colleagues in Community Dental.

The main duties include:

To provide oral surgery services to the population of Northumbria and North Tyneside. The job plan will be made up of outpatient and telephone clinics, Local anaesthetic and General anaesthetic sessions, MDT, training, education and service development.

Working for our organisation

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Job Plan will typically include an average of up to 4 Programmed Activities for Direct Clinical Care duties and 2 Programmed Activities for Supporting Professional Activities.

Please see the attached job description for more information on the role and key responsibilities.

Person specification

Qualifications

• MFDS/ FDS or MJDF
• Full registration and a License to Practice with the General Dental Council (GDC)
• Academic excellence e.g. prizes, merits, awards
• Sedation qualification or equivalent

Experience

• Evidence of a minimum of 7 years post qualification clinical experience, with a minimum of 5 years in a relevant specialty in the Specialty Doctor and/or closed SAS grades
• Recognised management or leadership course
• Experience as a clinical and/ or educational supervisor for trainees

Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and those who have been looked after by the care system as a child or young person (for example, in foster care, children's homes, kinship or local authority care) who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.

Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.

Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!

Certificate of Sponsorship

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust proudly hold a sponsor licence. In order to provide sponsorship you and the role you are applying for must meet UKVI eligibility requirements. Please check your eligibility prior to submitting an application. Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.

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.

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