Community Specialty Doctor

Community Specialty Doctor (part-time specialty dentist) to work within Special Care Dentistry at King's College Hospital (Denmark Hill site). Provides dental treatment under sedation (intravenous and inhalation sedation) or local anaesthesia. Treatment under general anaesthesia is provided on a weekly basis. The post holder will be required to support the GA service.

Main duties

• To provide a high-quality care service to patients including all aspects of treatment and relevant management duties for the proper functioning of the Care Group.
• Shared responsibility with other colleagues for covering periods of annual leave and short-term sickness as detailed in your contract.
• Responsible for contributing to CPD and clinical governance initiatives.
• Responsible for outpatient clinic commitments in peripheral hospitals as agreed with the Care Group's management team where part of the service structure.
• Contribute to the Care Group's research interests in accordance with the Trust's R&D framework.
• Contribute to the audit programmes, Morbidity and Mortality, Clinical Governance programmes and Learning from Deaths.
• Take an active role in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of the Care Group's Business Plan.
• Conduct all activities within the contracted level of service and operating plan for service(s).
• Fostering and developing projects to ensure that the momentum of post qualification professional education and other appropriate training is maintained.
• Work with clinical and other professional colleagues to ensure productivity of staff within the specialty is maintained and their job satisfaction is enhanced.
• Be aware of, and comply with, all Trust infection prevention and control policies, to include hand hygiene, personal hygiene, environmental and food hygiene.

General Information

• You have a general duty of care for the health, safety and well-being of yourself, work colleagues, visitors and patients within the hospital in addition to any specific risk management or clinical governance responsibilities associated with this post.
• You are required to observe the rules, policies, procedures and standards of Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust together with all relevant statutory and professional obligations, including complying with statutory and Trust core training.
• You are required to observe and maintain strict confidentiality of personal information relating to patients and staff.
• You are required to be responsible, with management support, for your own personal development and to actively contribute to the development of colleagues.
• The postholder has an important responsibility for, and contribution to make to, infection control and must be familiar with the infection control and hygiene requirements of this role.
• All employees must hold an 'nhs.net' email account, which will be the Trust's formal route for email communication.

Additional Information and Responsibilities

• Post-Graduate Teaching: The Trust has over 700 training posts and over 400 Trust doctors/dentists across all specialties. The postholder will be expected to participate in teaching and training postgraduate doctors/dentists.
• Research and Innovation: Involvement in high quality research is strongly encouraged at Kings NHSFT, as this supports both the delivery of high-quality clinical care, and our role as a partner in a major Academic Health Science Centres.
• Clinical Governance: The postholder will be expected to contribute to and participate in the Care Groups ongoing clinical audit programme and quality improvement programmes.
• Study and Annual Leave: The postholder will be expected to comply with the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements of the relevant Royal College or Faculty.
• Terms and Conditions: The post is covered by the current Terms and Conditions - Consultants (England) 2003, the Terms and Conditions of Service of NHS Medical and Dental Staff (England) and Trust Policies and Procedures where relevant.

Qualifications

• One or more of the following qualifications: MSc FDS RCS MFDS RCS MSCD RCS (Ed) DSCD RCS (Eng).

Training and Experience

• Experience in the dental management of medically compromised patients.
• Experience of provision of dental treatment under general anaesthesia and all appropriate conscious sedation techniques.

Personal Skills and Attributes

• Effective communicator, able to work in a close-knit team and co-operate with all dental, medical and paramedical staff.
• Flexible, able to cover colleagues' absence.

This job description is intended as a guide to the general scope of duties and is not intended to be definitive or restrictive.