Would you like to join a centre of excellence in rural and remote healthcare?
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an enthusiastic Consultant Orthodontist to join our established team of three consultants. This is an exciting opportunity to deliver high-quality specialist orthodontic care within a supportive multidisciplinary service serving North Cumbria's urban and rural communities.
About the Role
- Provide consultant-led orthodontic assessment and treatment services.
- Work across Cumberland Infirmary and West Cumberland Hospital.
- Participate in multidisciplinary clinics including orthognathic, restorative and cleft services.
- Support clinical governance, audit, quality improvement and service development.
- Contribute to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training.
- Act as an Educational and/or Clinical Supervisor for trainees.
About the Service
- Comprehensive orthodontic service including orthognathic, dentoalveolar and cleft care.
- Excellent multidisciplinary links with Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery and Restorative Dentistry.
- Advanced digital facilities including CBCT, 3Shape scanning and 3D imaging.
- Dedicated dental nursing team and on-site laboratory support.
Essential Requirements
- BDS (or equivalent) and full GDC registration.
- Entry on the GDC Specialist List in Orthodontics.
- MOrth (or equivalent).
- CCT in Orthodontics or within six months of completion.
- Commitment to teaching, clinical governance and multidisciplinary working.
Main duties of the job
Main Duties
The successful applicant will:
- Provide a consultant-led specialist orthodontic advisory and treatment service.
- Deliver high-quality patient care within a multidisciplinary setting.
- Participate in clinical governance, audit, risk management and service improvement activities.
- Contribute to undergraduate and postgraduate education.
- Supervise Specialty Registrars and other trainees as an Educational and/or Clinical Supervisor.
- Support research, teaching and quality improvement initiatives.
- Work collaboratively with clinical and managerial colleagues to develop services across North Cumbria.
Teaching and Training Opportunities
NCIC has an excellent reputation for education and training, with strong links to:
- Newcastle University
- University of Central Lancashire (UCLan)
- Health Education England North East
The successful candidate will play a key role in:
- Training Specialty Registrars and Post-CCST Trainees
- Supporting multidisciplinary education programmes
- Contributing to academic teaching delivered through UCLan Dental School
Working for our organisation
Our CEO, Trudie Davies, and Executive Medical Director, Adrian Clements, would love to hear from you to discuss your future career in North Cumbria. To arrange an informal chat, please contact Sally Rushton on Sally.Rushton1@ncic.nhs.uk for Trudie and Julia McClune on Julia.mcclune@ncic.nhs.uk for Adrian.
At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.
Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of ‘safe, high quality care every time’:
- Being a clinically led organisation
- Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
- A positive patient experience every time
- A great place to work
- Managing our money well
As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.
Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. All staff are expected to support sustainability.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
JOB DESCRIPTION :
Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.
CERTIFICATE OF SPONSORSHIP
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If you are applying under the Disability Confident Scheme or Armed Forces Covenant and you meet all the essential criteria for a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.
Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see our Policy for eligiblevacancies.
Disclosure and Barring Service:
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.
The cost of the DBS must be met by the successful candidate(s) through salary deduction. DBS charges are as follows if applicable to the post:
Standard Check: £21.50 + Administration cost of £6.50 = £28. Deducted from salary over a 4 month period or a one-off payment.
Enhanced Check: £49.50 + administration cost of £6.50 = £56. Deducted from salary over a 4 month period or a one-off payment.
NCIC can offer successful future employees the following benefits:
27-day holiday scheme rising to 33 after 10 years
NHS Discounts*
Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work*
Vivup is a free, confidential counselling and information service to assist with personal or work-related problems
*Subject to eligibility
Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.
If sufficient response is received this post could be closed earlier than the specified closing date, please apply as soon as possible to ensure that your application is considered.
Candidates who have been successfully shortlisted for interview will be asked via an email notification to log on to their Trac account to select an interview time. This will usually be within 2 weeks of the closing date.
Person specification
Person specification
- Current full registration with the General Dental Council.
- Entry on the GDC specialist list in Orthodontics.
- CCT and Completion of a recognised accreditation programme in Orthodontics at Post CCST or equivalent level of training or within 6 months of completion
- MOrth or equivalent
- FDS in Orthodontics or equivalent
- Level 2b certification in CBCT requesting and reporting. Interest in digital orthodontics
Experience and Knowledge
- High level of clinical experience and competence in orthodontics
- Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients.
- Experience of specialist multidisciplinary team working such as in orthognathic surgery and restorative dentistry and cleft care
Management & Administrative
- Ability to organise and manage own workload efficiently.
- Appropriate recording and timely administration associated with clinical care.
- Experience of audit management
- Ability to advice on efficient and smooth running of secondary care orthodontic service.
- Participation in managed clinical network or equivalent
Teaching
- Experience of and commitment to teaching undergraduate and postgraduate staff.
- Experience of Clinical and Educational Supervisor roles or desire to develop in these roles
- Current trainer accreditation through Health Education England or equivalent or working towards this.
- Teaching of non‑medical health professionals.
Research, Audit and Clinical Governance
- Experience of, and commitment to, medical audit.
- Experience of research and Clinical Governance.
- Ability to supervise postgraduate research.
- Publications in peer-reviewed journals.
Communication skills and abilities
- Empathetic and sensitive approach to patient needs.
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