Dental Officer inWorcester inWorcester PUBLISHED
WED 27 NOV 2024
Key responsibilities include:
- Assessing and treating referred patients, including urgent dental issues.
- Collaborating with a team of dental professionals, including consultants and trainees, to deliver care.
- Supporting the domiciliary dental service and participating in data collection for epidemiology.
- Engaging in audit and quality governance activities.
Candidates must demonstrate excellent communication skills and compassion, as they will work with patients who may have learning difficulties, mental health issues, or severe anxiety. The service operates Monday to Friday, with specific urgent care hours, and the job plan will be finalized upon appointment.
An opportunity has arisen for a Band-A Dental Officer to work within the Worcestershire Community Dental Service. We are looking for an enthusiastic and caring clinician working within our Paediatric Team in Worcester & Kidderminster with a requirement to work across our other clinics in Evesham, Malvern & Redditch as and when required to meet service provision. This service is managed Monday to Friday 8:45- 5:00.
There may also be a requirement to support our Urgent Care Service. Referrals for Urgent Care are via our Central Triage Line and NHS 111. The urgent dental care sessions are 8:45- 12:30 and 1:30- 5:00 in Worcester, Kidderminster, and Evesham.
We are a Consultant-led service providing dentistry to a wide range of patients including those requiring Paediatric and Special Care Dentistry. Several of our clinics are equipped to provide dental treatment with inhalation and/or intravenous sedation and the service also provides dental treatment under general anaesthesia at Kidderminster Hospital.
As well as providing care in our clinical settings including urgent dental care, we work with a wide range of other organisations and specialist services to deliver dental treatment to people in their own homes or care homes as well as oral health promotion support and advice across Worcestershire.
The successful candidate will benefit from a varied working week which will include:
- Surgery based clinics, assessing and treating referred patients with additional and complex needs with support from consultants and experienced senior dentists across Paediatric and Special Care Dentistry
- Urgent care clinics for patients who are unable to access general dental practice and have been triaged with urgent dental problems:
- Diagnosing and managing acute dental pain and dental trauma
- Accessing and dressing teeth
- Dental extractions
- Patient referral into the Community Dental Service if a patient meets the referral criteria
- Onward referral to other specialist services as required
The candidate will also have the opportunity to provide the following:
- Treatment under sedation
- Provision of treatment under general anaesthesia
- Provision of care in the domiciliary setting
- Undertaking epidemiology data collection
You will work alongside the dental team, including consultants, dental officers, specialty and core trainees, dental therapists and dental nurses. You will be expected to become involved in audit and quality governance.
The Job plan will be agreed following successful appointment to the post.
About us
- Post-holders may be working with a wide range of patients who meet the service acceptance criteria for Special Care and Paediatric Dentistry - including people with learning difficulties, mental health problems, complex medical conditions, those experiencing complex social problems, severe anxiety and phobia. This list is not exhaustive, and the post-holder will be required to provide treatment to these patients with consultant support available as required. Supporting these patients requires a high level of sensitivity, compassion and excellent communication skills.
- To liaise with colleagues in General Dental Services, Hospital Dental Services and colleagues in Community Dental Services, to ensure that patients needs are met, and referrals are appropriately undertaken.
- Post holders may be required to support Dental Core Trainees, you will be supported if this is required
- To take responsibility for completing an appropriate level of clinical activity on patients, sufficient to ensure that the service can meet contractual targets for commissioners.
- To take responsibility for completing paperwork on time including completion and transmission of FP17s to the Business Services Authority and completion of all service paperwork.
- To contribute to the services Clinical Governance programme in ways relevant to their role and as defined by the Clinical Director/Clinical Governance lead.
For full details of the duties and criteria for the role please refer to the job description and person specification attached.
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