Junior Specialty Dentist in Oral Surgery London

An exciting opportunity to join our expanding team within the department of Oral Surgery at Guys Hospital. Applicants are invited for multiple fixed term full/part time posts in Oral Surgery. The appointees will deliver a comprehensive Oral Surgery service for adult patients. Applicants must have full GDC registration and experience in providing Oral Surgery dentistry for adult patients. The successful applicants will be expected to develop the department's clinical services and take an active role in undergraduate and postgraduate training.

Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust is made up of two of London's best known teaching hospitals and employs over 13,650 staff and has over 2 million patient contacts a year. Our annual turnover is now £1.3 billion.

You must be fully registered with the GMC/GDC. As an organisation, we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This includes asking certain groups of staff to work more flexibly so that we can offer services to patients in the evenings and at weekends. We regard this flexibility as essential if we are to continue to provide first class patient care in the future. As a result, any offer of employment to a consultant post will be subject to you agreeing to work a new more flexible pattern of working in the future if required and in accordance with the provisions of the new Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust consultant contract.

Please note that successful completion of the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) is our accepted minimum language requirement.

Job responsibilities:

• To provide service in Oral Surgery at GSTFT in accordance with Trust guidelines and strategy of both GSTFT and strategy of KCL Dental Institute.
• To assist in service delivery planning and service management.
• To participate in clinical and other service activities with the object of ensuring a high standard of patient care.
• To take an active part in KCL undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training.

Person Specification:

Qualifications / Education

• Essential: BDS or equivalent.
• Desirable: FDS/MFDS/MJDF.

Professional / Statutory Registration

• Essential: Full Registration with UK GDC.

Academic Achievements

• Essential: Publications Presentation Oral/Poster at relevant conference.
• Desirable: Evidence of publications in refereed journals.

Clinical Experience

• Essential: Evidence of understanding of and adherence to the principles of Good Dental Practice set out by the General Dental Council. Extensive experience in Oral Surgery. Evidence of a focused personal development and research plan.
• Desirable: Experience of treatment of facial pain and TMJ.

Skills / Knowledge / Ability

• Essential: See patients as people, ability to empathise and work co-operatively with others in a multidisciplinary team. Knowledge of Research methods.
• Desirable: Evidence of understanding and possibly development of clinical guidelines.

Audit

• Essential: Evidence of participation in quality improvement project.
• Desirable: Leading a quality improvement project / service redesign.

Teaching Experience

• Essential: Teaching undergraduate dental students.
• Desirable: Teaching postgraduate dental students. Developing a teaching programme / teaching materials.

Additional skills

• Essential: Ability to work as part of a team. Good verbal and communication skills.

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. Applicants must have current UK professional registration.