Locum Consultant in Restorative Dentistry
| Posting date: | 25 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £93,666.00 to £126,281.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £93666.00 - £126281.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 May 2024 |
| Location: | Leeds, LS2 9LU |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | C9298-MED-506 |
Summary
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