Clinical Director – Dental Services | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 29 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £94,007 - £139,882 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 June 2025 |
| Location: | Liverpool, L8 0SG |
| Company: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7217635/350-MHC7217635 |
Summary
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust: Clinical Director - Dental
Band C Dentist or Consultant Dentist
Includes seven sessions of clinical activity and three sessions aligned to Clinical Director role.
Join our Dental Leadership Team!
Could this be the move you’re looking for?
We have a fantastic opportunity for you to join the Dental Leadership Team at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, Community Division, as a Clinical Director (Band C Dentist or Consultant Dentist).
Why join us?
Imagine being part of a new seven-year (+3) contract to deliver Special Dental Care for both adults and children, along with general Personal Dental Services. You'll work with a dedicated team of senior dentists, dentists, dental therapists, dental nurses, receptionists and support staff. Together, you'll help develop Community Dental Services fit for the future, delivering across Liverpool, Sefton, and Knowsley.
What we're looking for
We're seeking a strong clinical, strategic, and operational lead to drive, develop, and motivate our Dental Service through transformational milestones. You'll need a strategic vision to address national, regional, and local challenges faced by Dental Services. Collaboration is key, as you'll develop clinical dental pathways across the North West and build strong clinical networks across providers and local universities.
Our services include:
• Special Dental Care: Provided across eight sites in Liverpool, Sefton, and Knowsley.
• General Personal Dental Services: Delivered from two sites in Liverpool and Knowsley.
• Paediatric General Anaesthetic Extraction Services: Available at Whiston and Ormskirk Hospitals.
• Domiciliary Consultations: When necessary.
What we offer:
• Comprehensive care: From an episode of care to shared or continuing care.
• Specialist led services: For adults and children whose dental needs cannot be met within general dental practice.
• Paediatric Exodontia Contract: Providing assessment and exodontia services for children using General Anaesthetic (GA), conscious sedation, or other appropriate patient management systems.
• NHS Dental Services: Under Personal Dental Service contracts at Vauxhall Health Centre and River Alt Resource Centre.
• Outreach teaching:For dental students and post registration dental training at River Alt.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
· The Clinical Director, alongside colleagues within the Division, will input into the Trust’s Strategic Plans and their implementation for all services, driving forward a culture of transformational change and high quality care.
· The Clinical Director will work with colleagues contributing to the strategic direction of the Dental Service and be a key member in regional and national clinical networks. Leadership and clinical duty split will be discussed in proportion.
· The Clinical Director will provide Clinical Leadership to all Community Dental Services, across the Trust. The post holder will work closely with Clinical Director colleagues within the Community Health Division to align strategy and standardise the delivery of services
· The Clinical Director will work closely with senior operational colleagues and be jointly accountable for dental performance and its impact upon the operational delivery of dental services. Where there may be reputational or practical impact in the accomplishment of divisional, site-specific or Trust wide goals, decisions should be made collaboratively with the appropriate respective level of oversight.
· The Clinical Director will have direct responsibility for the line management of dentists and dental clinicians within the dental service. They will have clinical line management and supervision responsibilities for senior dentists, dentists, dental therapists, group and trainees as appropriate.
· The Clinical Director will work alongside senior multidisciplinary colleagues across the Trust to ensure the appropriate stewardship of resources and the appropriate implementation of audit and quality standards e.g. NICE Guidelines.
· The Clinical Director will be supported centrally by senior medical leaders, holding responsibility for workforce planning, medicines management, education, research and innovation, and risk management.
· The Clinical Director will have devolved joint budgetary responsibility with senior operational colleagues.
The Clinical Director will be expected to:
· Be a role model for Trust values and behaviours and be highly visible to the multi-professional team
· Promote a professional culture of continuous quality improvement and work collaboratively with colleagues from across the Trust and partner organisations to establish clinically effective care pathways
· Collaborate with nursing and operational counterparts to deliver timely, quality and compassionate care to patients
· Work with the Quality and Governance Team to ensure that action plans and quality improvement activities are undertaken and completed in time to address risk identified through safety incidents, complaints, or adverse audit outcomes identified through divisional review.
· To ensure clinical audit and clinical governance procedures in the Dental Service respond to national and local requirements.
· Ensure that any risks to quality are identified, and that appropriate actions are taken to reduce, maintain or mitigate the risk within the Mersey Care governance framework.
· Ensure that community dental services maintain the essential and fundamental standards of care and safety as specified by the Care Quality Commission, and to support the Trust’s work towards achieving an outstanding rating across all categories.
· Identify and develop excellent relationships with key stakeholders and work across the health community to further shape the Trust strategy for community dental services and lead local, regional and national projects as required.
· Take strategic responsibility for developing, promoting, supporting and holding to account the dental teams within community services.
· Seek and support opportunities for quality improvement, innovation, research and development.
· Lead community dental services through ongoing transformation, redesigning services as part of a wider shift towards greater integration with other providers e.g. local authorities, integrated care teams, primary care networks.
· Develop and maintain excellent relationships with the dental university to ensure continued provision of training environment for dental students.
· Ensure that patients and carers are involved as partners in the development of services and encouraged to participate and co-produce where appropriate.
· Recruit, motivate, and develop staff, and help maintain high levels of staff morale through inspirational leadership.
· Work alongside the Patient Safety Team to ensure learning follows from investigations.
· Analyse, interpret and present data to highlight issues, risk and support decision making. Attend divisional / Trust operational meetings where appropriate and if required to attend sub-committees of the Board to present service line report(s).
· Undertake an active role in clinical supervision, mentoring and be proactive in the provision of education to other members of the dental team and dental postgraduate trainees.
· Lead in developing the education and training capacity of the service.
· Support the development of other professional groups to increase the skill mix of the service.
· Contribute positively towards the delivery of a cost efficient service, working with colleagues to ensure skill mix meets service demand and keeps within agreed budget.
· Contribute to the service requirement to identify cost improvement initiatives and actively participate in realising those.
This advert closes on Saturday 14 Jun 2025