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Senior Dental Officer | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 15 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £74,126 - £86,701 per annum, pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 14 June 2024 |
| Location: | Manchester, M21 9NJ |
| Company: | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6257649/349-LCO-6257649 |
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.
• 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.
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.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll 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 you’ll 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 atresourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
This advert closes on Wednesday 22 May 2024
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