Consultant in Dental Maxillofacial Radiology — Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust | MedRoles
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Consultant in Dental Maxillofacial Radiology
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
London
Salary
£109,725 – £145,478
Training post
Unknown
Trust type
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Posted
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About the role
The Department of Dental and Maxillofacial Radiology is seeking a substantive part-time (7 PA) Consultant to join a dynamic and forward-thinking team. The department is involved in a range of service developments and is looking for an individual with the skills to support ongoing clinical and academic excellence.
The post is based at Guy’s Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, with a requirement to work at other Trust sites as needed. Clinical duties will primarily include cone beam CT (CBCT) reporting, ultrasound imaging, and radiological interventions.
The successful candidate will provide clinical services for Dental Directorate patients alongside existing consultants. The role includes teaching, training, and mentoring staff, trainees, and students, as well as participation in clinical audit and research.
Consultant in Dental Maxillofacial Radiology
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Applicants should have specialist experience in CBCT reporting, plain radiography, and ultrasound imaging for salivary gland and oral and maxillofacial conditions. Experience managing referrals from a range of dental and medical specialties is required. The role also includes image-guided interventional procedures.
The service receives both local and tertiary referrals from across the South East. The postholder will work closely with dental specialties and the Department of Oral Surgery, contributing to multidisciplinary team clinics and joint interventional and surgical case management.
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· To provide service in Dental Maxillofacial Radiology at GSTFT in accordance with Trust guidelines and strategy of both GSTFT and strategy of KCL Dental Institute.
· 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 undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training.
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Provide High Quality Care to Patients
· The post holder must be dentally qualified and maintain GDC specialist registration in Dental Maxillofacial Radiology and are GDC registered.
· To develop and maintain the competencies required to carry out the duties required of the post.
· To ensure prompt attendance at agreed direct clinical care Programmed Activities.
· To ensure patients are involved in decisions about their care and to respond to their views.
Research, Teaching and Training
The post holder must be able
· Where possible to collaborate with academic and clinical colleagues to enhance the Trust’s translational research portfolio, at all times meeting the full requirements of Research Governance.
· Provide high quality teaching to dental undergraduates and members of other health care professions as required by the Clinical Director.
· Act as educational supervisor and appraiser, once suitably trained as delegated by the Clinical Director to ensure external accreditation of training post.
Performance Management
The post holder must
· Work with dental, nursing and managerial colleagues to ensure high performance in the following areas:
· Maintain clinical efficiency e.g. LOS reductions, reducing cancelled operations and DNA rates.
· Meet quality of outcomes e.g. infection control targets, reducing re-admission rates.
· Participate in financial management e.g. identification, implementation and achievement of cost improvement programmes and participating in efforts to ensure services are provided cost effectively e.g. managing locum agency spend, monitoring and managing the drug budget to target, ensuring accuracy of clinical data for the team.
· Help to improve operational efficiency e.g. day-case rates, waiting list activity and demand management.
Staff Management
· Work with colleagues to ensure junior doctors’ hours are compliant in line with EWTD and New Deal.
· Ensure that adequate systems and procedures are in place to control and monitor leave for junior clinical staff and to ensure that there is appropriate cover within the clinical areas, including on-call commitments.
· Participate in the recruitment of junior staff as and when required.
· Participate in team objective setting as part of the annual job planning cycle.
· Be responsible for the annual appraisal of all doctors in training, Trust doctors, Clinical Fellows and non-consultant grades as delegated by the Clinical Director/General Manager.
Governance
· Review clinical outcomes in designated area using external benchmarking data where appropriate, to identify and advise variances to the Clinical Director.
· Participate in clinical audit, incident reporting and analysis and to ensure resulting actions are implemented.
· Work closely with the Directorate, Patient and Public Involvement panels in relation to clinical and services developments as delegated by the Clinical Director.
· Participate in ensuring NICE requirements are reviewed and implemented and monitored in the speciality areas.
· Ensure clinical guidelines and protocols are adhered to by junior clinical staff and updated on a regular basis.
· Keep fully informed about best practice in the speciality areas and ensure implications for practice changes are discussed with the Clinical Director.
· Role model good practice for infection control to all members of the multidisciplinary team.
*** Please be advised that this vacancy may close early should we receive a sufficient number of applications **
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Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
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Person specification
Essential
Full GDC registration, Registered specialist in Dental Maxillofacial Radiology, CCST in Dental Maxillofacial Radiology or within 6 months of CCST.
• Experience / training such that the applicant has reached at least the standard considered equivalent to that expected after 4 years of specialist training in Dental Maxillofacial Radiology
• Extensive experience of CBCT reporting Ultrasound and interventional radiology
• Ability to independently perform CBCT reporting
• Ability to independently perform ultrasound investigations
Understanding of clinical governance and risk management in the secondary care setting
Management skills and effective leadership for the NHS environment and specifically clinical service delivery
Effective participation in audit including implementation of outcomes
Good IT skills
• Experience of organisation and clinical supervision of postgraduate and undergraduate teaching
• Experience of providing and training in the NHS
• Able to appraise the scientific literature critically.
• Presentations at national research meetings
• Knowledge of research ethics
Ability to communicate with clarity and intelligently in written and spoken English; ability to build rapport, listen, persuade/ negotiate.
Ability to take responsibility, lead, make decisions and exert appropriate authority.
Empathy, understanding, listening skills, patience and ability to work co-operatively with others.
Able to change and adapt, respond to changing circumstances and to cope with setbacks or pressure.
Ability to work as part of a team
Desirable
Higher academic degree related to Dental Maxillofacial Radiology, such as a MSc, PhD etc, One, or more of the following or equivalent qualifications: FDS RCS MFDS RCS
• Experience of leading a multidisciplinary team
• Experience in training under and post graduates in dental radiology
Worked with specialist in oral surgery and oral medicine in joint clinics managing Head and Neck cancer patients and patients with salivary gland diseases
Experience in leading UG or PG courses
Evidence of teaching courses and / or teaching qualifications
Experience in UG and PG examining relevant to Dental Maxillofacial Dentistry
Evidence of publications in refereed journals
Research relevant to Dental Maxillofacial Dentistry