Sessional Bank Emergency Dental Service (EDS) Dentist
| Posting date: | 17 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £50 Basic pay + HCAS + 12.07% Holiday pay + Unsocial hours |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 May 2024 |
| Location: | London, W10 6DZ |
| Company: | Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6237054/824-BANK-0618 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust.
Sessional Bank Emergency Dental Service (EDS) Dentist
We are looking for Dental Service (EDS) Dentist to join our team of bank workers to work at St Charles Hospital Dental Department.
This is an exciting time to join our bank, with a new friendly and supportive team. We can offer you regular yet flexible working patterns, that allow you to make a real difference to services and patients and become an integral part of a cohesive team. As the largest community NHS trust in London, we can support you to develop your experience, working as part of multi-skilled teams across a huge range of different locations and care settings.
Why join?
• See the best shifts first –bank staff get priority over all agency workers
• Book the shifts you want on your phone –build your own rota on our bank booking system
• Get 24x7 support from our friendly Staff Bank team –a local teamdedicated to helping you
• Access NHS benefits –such as NHS pension contributions and discounts
• Access Trust benefits –get support with your career development and mental health
• Become part of an integrated team –feel more valued and supported in your work
Main Duties and Responsibilities
To provide emergency dental treatment for patients referred into the service by the triage service.
• Undertake thorough examination, diagnosis and assessment of patients.
• To use appropriate local anaesthesia and pain management techniques to control pain and anxiety during treatment.
• To prescribe antibiotics in line with National and Trust guidelines to avoid the over prescription of antibiotics which is a source of bacterial resistance.
• Provide patients with pre and post-operative instruction following dental treatment in the form of verbal and written instructions as well as leaflets.
• Provide information on follow up care and signposting in order to eradicate or reduce pain and prevent recurrence of the problem.
• To provide patients with out of hours pharmacy information.
• To maintain accurate clinical records via Carestream clinical+ data base
• To identify commonly occurring medical emergencies and lead the dental team in the appropriate first line management of the emergency, using appropriate techniques, equipment and drugs
• Maintain compliance in mandatory training as required by the Trust including Immediate Life Support, Infection Prevention and Information Governance.
• To be responsible for own GDC mandated CPD requirement.
• Understand responsibility regarding confidentiality and information security
• To be responsible for the safe handling and disposal of sharps and clinical waste used
We provide community health services to more than two million people across eleven London boroughs and Hertfordshire.
Every day, our professionals provide high-quality healthcare in people's homes and local clinics, helping them to:
• stay well
• manage their own health with the right support
• avoid unnecessary trips to, or long stays in, hospital.
We support our patients at every stage of their lives, providing health visiting for new-born babies through to community nursing, stroke rehabilitation and palliative care for people towards the end of their lives.
Our vision: deliver great care closer to home.
Our mission: working together to give children a better start and adults greater independence
Professional Standards
All staff must comply with the Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) NHS Trust Staff Code of Conduct. Senior Managers must also comply with the NHS Code of Conduct for Managers, based on the Nolan principles of public accountability. All staff employed in recognised professions are required to ensure they work to the professional standards and/or Codes of Practice set out for their professional group.
Equal Opportunities and Dignity at Work
It is the aim of CLCH NHS Trust to ensure that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of race, colour, creed, nationality, ethnic or national origin, sex, marital status or on the grounds of disability or sexual preference, or is placed at a disadvantage by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable. Selection for training and development and promotion will be on the basis of an individual's ability to meet the requirements of the job. To this end CLCH NHS Trust has an Equal Opportunities Policy and it is for each employee to contribute to its success. All staff should treat other staff, patients and the public with dignity and respect.
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Safeguarding
CLCH NHS Trust is committed to safeguarding and protecting children and vulnerable adults. All health employees have responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in accordance with "Working Together to Safeguard Children" HM Gov 2006. This applies to employees with both direct and indirect contact with children and families.
Employees who do not provide specific services for children and families or vulnerable adults require basic knowledge of their responsibilities to identify and refer concerns appropriately. All employees must undertake training in safeguarding children and vulnerable adults but will have different training needs to fulfil their responsibilities depending on their degree of contact with vulnerable groups and their level of responsibility.
Confidentiality and Data Protection
Employees will have access to confidential information and will be required to ensure that the highest level of confidentiality is maintained at all times, adhering to all policies relating to confidentiality.
Employees are required to obtain process and/or use person identifiable information in a fair and lawful way. The use of such information is governed by the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) and includes both manual and electronic records. Staff are expected to hold data only for the specific registered purpose and not to use or disclose it in any way incompatible with such purpose, and to disclose data only to authorised persons or organisations as instructed, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.
This advert closes on Wednesday 1 May 2024
Sessional Bank Emergency Dental Service (EDS) Dentist
We are looking for Dental Service (EDS) Dentist to join our team of bank workers to work at St Charles Hospital Dental Department.
This is an exciting time to join our bank, with a new friendly and supportive team. We can offer you regular yet flexible working patterns, that allow you to make a real difference to services and patients and become an integral part of a cohesive team. As the largest community NHS trust in London, we can support you to develop your experience, working as part of multi-skilled teams across a huge range of different locations and care settings.
Why join?
• See the best shifts first –bank staff get priority over all agency workers
• Book the shifts you want on your phone –build your own rota on our bank booking system
• Get 24x7 support from our friendly Staff Bank team –a local teamdedicated to helping you
• Access NHS benefits –such as NHS pension contributions and discounts
• Access Trust benefits –get support with your career development and mental health
• Become part of an integrated team –feel more valued and supported in your work
Main Duties and Responsibilities
To provide emergency dental treatment for patients referred into the service by the triage service.
• Undertake thorough examination, diagnosis and assessment of patients.
• To use appropriate local anaesthesia and pain management techniques to control pain and anxiety during treatment.
• To prescribe antibiotics in line with National and Trust guidelines to avoid the over prescription of antibiotics which is a source of bacterial resistance.
• Provide patients with pre and post-operative instruction following dental treatment in the form of verbal and written instructions as well as leaflets.
• Provide information on follow up care and signposting in order to eradicate or reduce pain and prevent recurrence of the problem.
• To provide patients with out of hours pharmacy information.
• To maintain accurate clinical records via Carestream clinical+ data base
• To identify commonly occurring medical emergencies and lead the dental team in the appropriate first line management of the emergency, using appropriate techniques, equipment and drugs
• Maintain compliance in mandatory training as required by the Trust including Immediate Life Support, Infection Prevention and Information Governance.
• To be responsible for own GDC mandated CPD requirement.
• Understand responsibility regarding confidentiality and information security
• To be responsible for the safe handling and disposal of sharps and clinical waste used
We provide community health services to more than two million people across eleven London boroughs and Hertfordshire.
Every day, our professionals provide high-quality healthcare in people's homes and local clinics, helping them to:
• stay well
• manage their own health with the right support
• avoid unnecessary trips to, or long stays in, hospital.
We support our patients at every stage of their lives, providing health visiting for new-born babies through to community nursing, stroke rehabilitation and palliative care for people towards the end of their lives.
Our vision: deliver great care closer to home.
Our mission: working together to give children a better start and adults greater independence
Professional Standards
All staff must comply with the Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) NHS Trust Staff Code of Conduct. Senior Managers must also comply with the NHS Code of Conduct for Managers, based on the Nolan principles of public accountability. All staff employed in recognised professions are required to ensure they work to the professional standards and/or Codes of Practice set out for their professional group.
Equal Opportunities and Dignity at Work
It is the aim of CLCH NHS Trust to ensure that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of race, colour, creed, nationality, ethnic or national origin, sex, marital status or on the grounds of disability or sexual preference, or is placed at a disadvantage by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable. Selection for training and development and promotion will be on the basis of an individual's ability to meet the requirements of the job. To this end CLCH NHS Trust has an Equal Opportunities Policy and it is for each employee to contribute to its success. All staff should treat other staff, patients and the public with dignity and respect.
.
Safeguarding
CLCH NHS Trust is committed to safeguarding and protecting children and vulnerable adults. All health employees have responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in accordance with "Working Together to Safeguard Children" HM Gov 2006. This applies to employees with both direct and indirect contact with children and families.
Employees who do not provide specific services for children and families or vulnerable adults require basic knowledge of their responsibilities to identify and refer concerns appropriately. All employees must undertake training in safeguarding children and vulnerable adults but will have different training needs to fulfil their responsibilities depending on their degree of contact with vulnerable groups and their level of responsibility.
Confidentiality and Data Protection
Employees will have access to confidential information and will be required to ensure that the highest level of confidentiality is maintained at all times, adhering to all policies relating to confidentiality.
Employees are required to obtain process and/or use person identifiable information in a fair and lawful way. The use of such information is governed by the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) and includes both manual and electronic records. Staff are expected to hold data only for the specific registered purpose and not to use or disclose it in any way incompatible with such purpose, and to disclose data only to authorised persons or organisations as instructed, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.
This advert closes on Wednesday 1 May 2024