Locum Consultant in Paediatric Dentistry

Job summary

The post is for 1 full-time (10 PAs) Locum Consultant in Paediatric Dentistry within the Paediatric Dental Department at Barts Health NHS Trust. This is a post primarily based at the Royal London Dental Hospital with some sessions in main paediatric theatres at the Royal London Hospital and at local outreach clinics. The job would entail meeting the demands on the Paediatric Dental Service, ensuring the quality of service is maintained and supporting training.The service runs specialist multidisciplinary clinics with Orthodontics, Restorative Dentistry and Haematology.

Barts Health NHS Trust provides a secondary and tertiary service receiving referrals from general dental practitioners, medical practitioners and the local community dental service. The department is responsible for education of undergraduate and postgraduate dental students and professionals complimentary to dentistry. It provides dental foundation training, specialist training and postgraduate education.

The Paediatric Dental department provides treatment for children and adolescents referred with genetic dental anomalies, severe dental trauma, and with severe dental anxiety. It also offers a service for children with complex medical problems, including learning difficulty or physical disability. Minor oral surgical procedures on children are also carried out in the day stay unit.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will join an enthusiastic team and undertake new patient consultation clinics, treatment clinics including treatment under inhalation sedation, intravenous sedation or General Anaesthesia. They will be involved in day-to-day management of the department and take on management roles suitable to their level of experience. They will also be expected to take an active role in teaching and training and participate in audit and supervision of postgraduates' research projects.Applicants must either be fully registered with the GDC or eligible for full registration and on the GDC Specialist Register in Paediatric Dentistry (or eligible for) or equivalent. They must be accredited or within six months of such accreditation at interview stage and have completed a SAC approved training programme or equivalent.

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Barts Health supports The Pregnancy Loss Pledge and commits to supporting their staff through the distress of miscarriage.