The department is based at the Leeds Dental
Institute and the successful candidate will join a team of 11 Consultants, who
collectively provide the entire range of Restorative Dental procedures. This
appointment is to cover maternity leave and will focus on the provision of
clinical services for patients with developmental dental and facial anomalies
(hypodontia, patients with AI / DI, etc.). Additionally, the post holder would
be expected to contribute to general restorative dental services, as required
within the department
The
post holder would be part of a multidisciplinary team comprising of restorative
dentists, paediatric dentists, orthodontists and maxillofacial surgeons; and
would be expected to attend joint outpatient clinics, as well as procedures
under general anaesthetic as necessary.
The role will also involve supervision and training of core and
speciality trainees in Restorative Dentistry.
Applicants
will be expected to have excellent communication and leadership skills,
evidence of working with multidisciplinary teams and considerable experience in
non-surgical and surgical aspects of Restorative Dental care. They would also
be expected to take an active role in the departments audits, service reviews
and quality improvement programmes. The post holder will be expected to
participate in the departments in-hours on call rota.
Applicants should ideally be on the Specialist
Register in Restorative Dentistry or eligible for entry at time of the
interview. Consideration will be given to applicants who wish to work full or
part time and those wishing to job share.
LeedDental
Institute is situated on the ground floor of the Worsley Medical and Dental
building which also accommodates the School of Dentistry, the School of
Medicine and the University of Leeds Health Sciences Library. It is situated on the southern side of the
University campus half a mile from the city centre.
Training
of the dental team includes not only Undergraduate and Postgraduate Dental
programmes, but also education for Dental Nurses, Dental technicians, Dental
hygienists, Therapists offering vital team working experience.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
OBJECTIVES
OF THE POST
The
post is an appointment for a Locum consultant in Restorative Dentistry for 12
months with the objectives:
1. To carry out Restorative Dentistry
services in accordance with the service needs of the department. These are
likely to involve supporting our developmental clinics as well a general
restorative services.
2. To contribute to the role of Leeds as a
training centre for Restorative Dentistry.
3. To improve the efficiency and
productivity of the Restorative Dentistry services
4. To help further develop Leeds as a
centre of excellence for Restorative Dentistry
5. To contribute and improve the quality
of Undergraduate and Postgraduate training in Restorative Dentistry.
6. To improve the quality of care and
increase the scope for innovation
7. To facilitate and develop research
interests in Restorative Dentistry
8. To participate in a rota to provide
Restorative Dentistry consultant cover during working hours.
REQUIREMENTS
OF THE POST
Service
Delivery
General
The
Trust expects consultants to deliver clinical service as agreed with
commissioners and other stakeholders.
This will include:
meeting the objectives of the post
(see above)
continuously improving the quality
and efficiency of personal and team practice
working with other staff and teams to
ensure that the various criteria for service delivery are met, such as
achieving the best clinical outcomes
within the resources available
waiting times
infection control standards
Consultants
in LTHT are line managed by their specialty Lead Clinician working in
conjunction with a Business Manager.
This specialty team is then managed alongside a number of other
specialties in a Clinical Service (or Support) Unit (CSU) led by a Clinical
Director as the responsible person and supported by a full time General Manager
and a full time Head of Nursing.
The
Clinical Director and their team report operationally to the Chief Operating
Officer (COO). The Clinical Director will work closely with the Chief Operating
Officers team which includes the Medical Director for Operations, Nurse
Director for Operations, Director of Operations, Assistant Directors of
Operations (ADOs) and a Performance Team, with each ADO aligned to specific
CSUs.
Professionally,
consultants report to Dr Magnus Harrison, Chief Medical Officer.
Service
specific
The
role of Locum consultant in Restorative Dentistry will be expected to provide
clinical management and leadership of a team across the departments of
Restorative Dentistry, Orthodontics and Paediatric Dentistry with shared
patient pathways.
There
are bi-monthly MDTs for patients with dental developmental anomalies, with
presence from other dental departments. The post-holder will have a case mix of
developmental anomalies and general Restorative Dentistry. The general
restorative component would include patients referred to the hospital requiring
specialist advice and/or treatment within prosthodontics, periodontics and
endodontics.
There
will be a requirement to contribute to departments in hours on-call rota,
teaching and education programme and quality improvement projects. The role of
each Consultant is intended to be as an equal senior to other Consultants in
the Department and in the Trust
Quality
The
Trust has a programme of activities that are designed to help consultants
improve the quality of the service they offer.
This includes a range of activities shown below as examples not all
activities can be undertaken every year!
Consultants are expected to routinely engage in relevant activities in
their specialty that are focussed on quality improvement. This participation should be reflected at
annual appraisal and job planning and will be discussed in specialties as part
of clinical governance programmes and meetings.
Clinical
Audit and standard setting
Clinical audit projects
Development and application of agreed
clinical guidelines
Ensuring compliance against relevant
national specifications, e.g. NICE guidelines
External Peer review and relevant
national audits.
Clinical
outcome review
Mortality and morbidity review
Monitoring of outcomes reflected in
routinely collected data
Participation in clinical coding
review and improvement
Improving
patient safety
Participation in Trust-wide
programmes
Implementation of local improvements
as defined in e.g. mortality review
Improving
service effectiveness and efficiency
Service or system improvement
projects, including small scale change, lean or other recognised improvement
methods
Conducting or considering reviews of
the evidence to plan better service delivery
Where agreed, working with
commissioners to match service delivery with requirements of relevant
populations
Improving
the patient experience
Implementing service improvements on
the basis of individual or service feedback from patients or carers
Raising the profile and impact of
patient participation in decisions about their own care
Involvement in understanding and
improving the ethical basis of care provided
Research
The
Trusts Research Strategy encourages all clinicians to participate in high
quality, nationally-recognised clinical research trials and other well-designed
studies, with a particular emphasis on work supported by the National Institute
for Health Research. The Trust has a
number of major programmes in experimental medicine and applied health
research, developed in partnership with the University of Leeds, which reflect
particular strengths described in the Strategy and clinicians are encouraged to
participate in these programmes.
The
Trust also supports bespoke academic development and participation programmes
linked to the Research Strategy, including academic mentoring and embedding of
clinicians within the major research programmes.
Sessional
time required for any participation in research activity will be agreed on
commencement and kept under review, but not all consultants will require such
sessional time.
Teaching
The
Trust is a Teaching Hospital and therefore considers the active participation
of consultant and other medical staff in teaching and training to be part of
our core activities. Not all consultants
will have regular and substantial teaching commitments but all will be involved
in related activities from time to time, if only through informal
opportunities, for example as part of service quality improvement (see
above). It is therefore expected that
all consultants will be familiar with the principles of effective teaching and
will enable the service and colleagues to fulfil their obligations to learn and
teach about effective care.
The
remainder of this section concentrates on teaching and training for medical
colleagues, but the Trust actively supports and encourages consultant medical
staff to participate in and deliver teaching and training to any colleagues,
within and outside of the Trust, where this is agreed as an appropriate time
commitment.
Undergraduate
medical teaching
The
Trust actively promotes links with the University of Leeds, School of Medicine
for teaching medical undergraduates and all consultant medical staff are
required to participate to the level agreed within their service.
Postgraduate
medical teaching
As
with undergraduate teaching, consultants are expected to contribute to overall
programmes of postgraduate teaching in their service. Where there is a lead or significant role
agreed as part of the consultants job plan, the following expectations apply:
Consultants
will be expected to act as a clinical supervisor for any or specified junior
doctors working with them. All consultants must undergo clinical/educational
supervisor training from July 2016. Training is envisaged as needing renewal
every 5 years.
Consultants
may take up specific educational roles in the speciality which includes
educational supervisor, college tutor, speciality educational lead and CSU
educational lead. Where the current allocation for educational supervisors in
0.25 SPA per trainee (subject to change in further iterations of job planning
guidance), the SPA allocation for the other roles are for negotiation with the
CD.
If
consultants have a role in either under- or post-graduate medical education,
the GMC expects that evidence of the quality of this education is presented at
annual appraisals and for revalidation.
Continuing
Professional Development (CPD)
In the discharge of their
responsibilities, the consultant will be expected to maintain and update their
skills and knowledge through appropriate continuing professional development.
The
Trust fully supports the requirement for CPD by the relevant Royal College and
the GMC. This essential component of a
consultants professional activities will be reviewed during the appraisal
process. Time and financial support for
these activities will be allowed in accordance with the Trust policy.
Leadership
All
consultants are senior members of the Trusts staff and are therefore seen by
colleagues as leaders. Consultants are
expected to make allowance for this, given that the most powerful leadership
influence they exert is the example they set.
In
addition, the Trust places great emphasis on the role of doctors in leading
service improvement and change, both in their normal daily role of delivering
care and in relation to specific issues.
It is expected that a consultant will lead on specific areas of priority
for their service from time to time, as part of their consultant duties. Such departmental or specialty leadership
roles would be agreed, for example, in respect of leading or co-ordinating:
clinical governance
quality improvement
appraisal
research
teaching
The
Trust supports these activities as part of the normal job plan commitments of
any consultant.
On appointment, all consultants will be encouraged to
participate in the activities established by the Trust to su