Senior Dental Officer; Maternity Cover

This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated and experienced senior clinician to join our team on a 12-month fixed term maternity cover basis. Wolverhampton Special Care Dental Service provides high-quality care for a wide range of patients who are unable to access treatment in a General Dental Practice. Services are delivered from three community clinics and a dental mobile unit.

We pride ourselves on being an outward-looking, progressive service with strong links to Learning Disability, Mental Health and other specialist teams enabling the effective delivery of Special Care Dentistry.

The post holder will provide maternity cover and work to improve the dental health of Special Care Dental patients in Wolverhampton, alongside other members of the dental team. This is primarily a clinical role within the community. The post holder will work closely with frail and elderly patients as well as other core patients.

Applicants must be graduates in dentistry and hold current full registration with the General Dental Council. Applicants must also be flexible, as deployment across multiple sites will be required, with travel around Wolverhampton to reach the communities we serve.

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow.

We re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as "Good" by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards;
The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

Clinical Care

To contribute to all aspects of care provided by Wolverhampton Special care Dental Service as specified in the service level agreement

To provide high quality clinical care for patients in special care groups specifically but not restricted to the following groups of patients:

• Learning Disability adults
• Sedation

To undertake high quality clinical workload within the service appropriate to the nature of patient care the service has agreed to provide.

To work with the senior dental nurse and statutory and voluntary organisations to identify special care patients services for the provision of treatment for these patients.

To participate in the development of care pathway for the provision of treatment under General Anaesthesia and the development of services for special needs patients in the appropriate setting

To participate in the delivery of Comprehensive Dental Care under General Anaesthetic at New Cross Hospital for Special Care patients

To take referrals and provide advice to clinicians particularly for, but not restricted to special care adults and anxious patients when necessary.

To accept direct referrals of Special Needs patients from General Dental Practitioners and NHS staff and those from other agencies

Treatment will be undertaken at fixed and mobile clinics or hospital dental departments located in any part of Wolverhampton together with any related domiciliary care, as determined by the Clinical Director

To provide emergency domiciliary care as required

May be required to undertake the duties at New Cross hospital (dependent upon experience) as specified in the Service Level Agreement and as directed by the consultants in maxilofacial surgery. This may also include the general anaesthetic paediatric exodontia sessions.

To contribute to the Oral Health Promotion programme.

To ensure that the correct Oral Health Promotion principals in line with Delivering Better Oral Health (DH 2009), are adopted for individual patients in the prevention of dental disease

Management and Leadership

To contribute to the management and development of the dental services in Wolverhampton and the business planning process as part of the senior clinical team.

To contribute to the implementation of a strategy for improving the dental health of special care patients in Wolverhampton.

To contribute to the implementation of a strategy for dental care for young adults with special needs leaving school

To lead on the development of the anxious patient pathway and sedation services for special needs patients

To develop further protocols together with senior nursing colleagues as the need arises.

To ensure that clinical and other workload is scheduled and completed on time

To ensure that proper standards appropriate to a clinical area,…