Bank Senior Dental Officer - Carlisle, Cumbria, United Kingdom - North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

Description

The Special Care and Community Dental Service is seeking to recruit a compassionate and motivated individual to join our existing team of highly skilled clinicians and support staff to provide comprehensive dental care to our patients in Carlisle & Eden. The candidate should have a passion for child and adult dental health and be keen to make a difference to the vulnerable patients seen by our service. Being able to communicate effectively with both patients and staff is essential as you will be responsible for looking after some of the most vulnerable people in society.

Main duties of the job The post would be for ad hoc hours that are based at Carlisle Dental Centre. The Dental Centre is a modern multi-surgery facility on the Cumberland Infirmary site with ready access to support from secondary care colleagues. It also accommodates an undergraduate dental training centre as part of UCLAN. The centre has access to digital radiography and a wheelchair tipper and bariatric facilities. This role would suit dentists who wish to contribute to the maintenance and improvement of the oral health of the local population through direct clinical contact and innovative working with our local health and social care partners and patients. The ideal candidate will be experienced at the provision of both inhalation and intravenous sedation to dental patients. About us At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding hospital and health services to half a million people. Established on 1st October 2019, the Trust is creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout north Cumbria and beyond. We're responsible for delivering over 70 services across 15 main locations and we employ more than 6,500 members of staff. Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of 'safe, high quality care every time'.

• Being a clinically led organisation
• Quality and safety at the heart
• A positive patient experience every time
• A great place to work
• Managing our money well

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an

Job description
Job responsibilities Please see attached Job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants. Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• BDS or equivalent
• Registration with GDC
• NHS England Performer List registration

Desirable

• Postgraduate qualification in Special Care Dentistry
• Postgraduate qualification in Paediatric Dentistry
• Postgraduate qualification in Sedation

Experience
Essential

• Experience of and an understanding of the challenges presented by special care and/or paediatric patients

Desirable

• Demonstrable clinical experience in the treatment of patients using the techniques of conscious sedation

Knowledge
Essential

• Basic Life Support and the skills to lead a medical emergency
• Current commissioning guidelines in sedation, special care and paediatric dentistry
• Understanding of basic physiology and medical conditions that may cause complications in the delivery of dentistry.
• Legislative framework governing the delivery of oral health care in England

Desirable

• Immediate Life Support/ Paediatric Immediate Life Support
• Knowledge of alternative methods of and adjuncts to communication
• Knowledge of SOE dental software

Skills
Essential

• Good interpersonal skills with citable examples of working as part of a wider dental team
• Organisational and leadership skills: ability to communicate with, support and motivate team
• Excellent inter-personal and clinical skills to assist in the management of highly anxious patients
• Expertise in a range of clinical dentistry
• Current driving licence

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