Job summary
Manchester Community Dental Services are looking for an experienced dentist to join our well established team treating children and adults with additional needs.
The role will include providing sedation and domiciliary care. You should be innovative, flexible and committed to work in a team environment while providing high standards of clinical care.
Main duties of the job
- Provision of a full range of clinical dental care for people with additional needs who have been referred in to the service.
- To provide dental treatment as required in a range of locations, including domiciliary care. This will also involve the provision of treatment under sedation.
- To promote and maintain patients' oral health within NHS regulations. To provide dental screening or dental epidemiological surveys of school children and other priority groups if required by the service.
- To provide clinical leadership for the local dental team.
- To supervise junior dentists as an Educational Supervisor
- To work with the wider clinical team and oral health promotion staff in the provision of high quality dental care for the patients
- To ensure the patients are seen within specified time limits within the dental contract.
About us
MFT is England's largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our over 28,000 workforce to pursue their career goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from an extraordinary scale of opportunity.
We're also creating a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research & innovation through the introduction of Hive; our new Electronic Patient Record system, launching in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, offering a robust infrastructure to facilitate high-quality research programmes. Moreover, we're excited to be progressing our MFT Green Plan along with our vison to become an Anchor Organisation, creating new jobs, promoting healthy lifestyles, developing skills and contributing to a zero-carbon environment for the benefit of the local neighbourhood.
At MFT, we create & foster a culture of inclusion & belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open & transparent, protecting your health & wellbeing & shaping MFT's future together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at [email protected].
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Full Registration with GDC
- On NHS Performer list
- sedation trained
- post graduate qualification
Desirable
- postgraduate qualification in Special Care or Paediatric dentistry
- qualification in IV sedation
Experience
Essential
- Excellent Clinical skills
- Experience of treating patients with additional needs
- Experience of treating anxious children
- Experience in conscious sedation
- Experience in participating in clinical audit
- Understanding of clinical governance
- Evidence of CPD
Desirable
- Wide experience of primary dental care
- Teaching experience
- Line management experience
Personal Skills
Essential
- Excellent spoken and written communication
- Ability to communicate with patients in ways other than verbally
- Appreciation of cultural diversity and equality issues
- Ability to lead and work as a member of a team
- Computer literacy
- Excellent time management skills and ability to prioritise workload
- Able to cope with distressing or emotional circumstances and work under pressure
- Ability to maintain good working relationships with colleagues
- Adaptable and able to cope with change
- Ability to liaise and work with primary and secondary care providers
Desirable
- Knowledge of Dentally dental software
- Knowledge of the dental commissioning and provision of dentistry in Greater Manchester
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Manchester Community Dental Service
Nicolas Road
Manchester
M21 9NJ