Consultant Oral Surgeon

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Consultant Oral Surgeon to work within Northumbria Healthcare. This is a permanent contract based in Northumbria Healthcare, to work in sites across Northumbria, North Tyneside and working jointly into Newcastle Upon Tyne on a Service Level Agreement.

The successful candidate will be working with the other Oral Surgeons in Northumbria Healthcare and Newcastle Hospitals with the opportunity to develop skills working alongside colleagues in other specialities where appropriate. The post holder will need to be able to work flexibly to address the priorities of the service, balancing time between 2 trusts and maintaining flexibility to support RTT performance targets with the benefit of having a largely predictable schedule. The post-holder will contribute to the senior cover at the Dental Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne and contribute to MDT and training.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will be employed by Northumbria Healthcare working into Newcastle Hospitals regularly as a joint appointment. Northumbria Healthcare boasts excellent purpose built facilities in at Hexham General Hospital in a unit shared with Colleagues in Community Dental whilst Newcastle houses a Dental Hospital.

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

About us

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, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

As part of its pursuit of excellence, the Trust has introduced a clinically-based management structure to ensure patient care and medical interests always drive decision-making. The consultant body is both cohesive and innovative and a number of senior clinicians are prominent nationally.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Job Plan will typically include an average of up to 8 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

Essential

Membership of RCS in Oral Surgery Oral Surgery experience equivalent to that required to gain entry to UK CCT To be eligible for consideration for a Consultant appointment by an Appointments Committee, candidates must be fully registered on the UK General Dental Council's Specialist Register. Specialist Registrars may apply if within 6 months of CCT at date of application The appointee will be required to maintain full GDC or GMC registration and revalidation and should follow the GMC Code of Good Medical Practice Demonstrable interest in all aspects of Oral Surgery management Experience in service development

Desirable

Formal training in Clinical Supervision/Training the Trainers

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