Job Description
TITLE:
DEPARTMENT:
DENTAL CORE TRAINEE YEAR 2
(formerly Senior House Officer)
PAEDIATRIC DENTISTRY (Posts No 1 & 2)
LOCATION:
BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL
PROFESSIONALLY ACCOUNTABLE TO:
BAND:
LINE MANAGER/EDUCATIONAL
SUPERVISOR
MN21 - £28,076 - £39,092
HOURS:
FULL TIME
Birmingham Children’s Hospital
The Children’s Hospital is a large multidisciplinary hospital with approximately 300 beds and 9
operating theatres. The Trust provides secondary level paediatric services for the child and
adolescent population of much of the city of Birmingham, both in the hospital and through its
community and clinical support services. It is also the regional referral centre for the West
Midlands region (population 5.2m) and many of its specialist services extend their referral base
beyond the regional boundaries. The West Midlands Regional Cleft Lip & Palate Team is
based at the Children’s Hospital.
In addition to general paediatric medicine and general paediatric surgery, the clinical services
provided by the Trust include: Accident and Emergency Medicine; Anaesthetics and Intensive
Care; Bone Marrow Transplantation; Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery; Child and Adolescent
Mental Health; Clinical Psychology; Dermatology; Endocrinology and Diabetes; ENT Surgery,
Audiology and Cochlear Implantation; Gastroenterology and Clinical Nutrition; Haemophilia;
Hepatology; Inherited Metabolic Disease; Neonatal Surgery; Nephrology including
Haemodialysis and Renal Transplantation; Neurology; Neurophysiology; Neurosurgery; Non
Malignant Haematology; Oncology; Ophthalmology; Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery; Orthopaedic
and Trauma Surgery; Paediatric Dentistry; Plastic Surgery, Rehabilitation; Respiratory
Medicine and Cystic Fibrosis; Rheumatology; Thoracic Surgery; Urology. The Children’s
Hospital is also a designated supra regional centre for Craniofacial Surgery, Complex Liver
Disease and Liver Transplantation, and is currently designated as the only national centre for
paediatric small bowel transplantation.
The Department
The department has 4 fully equipped dental surgeries, 2 with dedicated inhalation sedation
facilities.
The Paediatric Dentistry team comprises of 3 Consultants, Mrs V. Clark (Clinical Lead/Head of
Service Coordinator of Paediatric Dental Services for children with Cleft Lip and Palate) Mrs S
McKaig and Mrs A James, (Consultants in Paediatric Dentistry), 3 FTTA’s and 1 SpR. There is
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a Consultant led Orthodontic service that is based with the Regional Cleft Team. The Oral &
Maxillofacial Surgery team comprises of 3 Consultants, Mr. A Monaghan, Mr R Williams and Mr
Ian Sharp with SpR / FTTA support provided from Birmingham University Hospitals Trust.
Clinical Attachments
The dental DCT will have the opportunity to attend New Patient Clinics in both Paediatric
Dentistry and Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery and will have a dedicated treatment session.
Experience will be gained working closely with medical and surgical colleagues on the Wards
and in the Accident and Emergency Department. The DCT will attend theatre sessions and be
encouraged to develop their surgical skills.
The post includes out of hours on call duties. The post, at present, is non-resident. The on-call
rota will be fixed. The dental DCTs on call commitments will be one night a week on call (1 in
7) for 6 weeks with the 7th week being a rest week from on call commitments. The DCT will be
encouraged to take annual leave in this rest week.
Education
Postgraduate education is actively encouraged and the DCT will have the opportunity of
attending the regional study programme, specialist study sessions and play an active part in
the department audit programme.
Attachment Objectives
To gain experience in:
 The inpatient and outpatient management of acute emergencies and dentoalveolar
/maxillofacial trauma in children of all ages.
 The management of elective surgery, including a range of minor oral surgery
procedures, alveolar bone grafting and facial distraction.
 The delivery of dental care for medically, mentally and physically compromised children.
Key Relationships
To establish effective working relation with the following:
Performance Management
All employees have a responsibility to participate in regular appraisal with their manager and to
identify performance standards of the post. As part of the appraisal process every employee is
responsible for participating in identifying their own training and development need to meet
their KSF outline.
Health & Safety At Work
Attention is drawn to the responsibility of all employees to take reasonable care for the health &
safety of themselves and other people who may be affected by their actions at work.
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Equal Opportunities
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust is committed to being an equal opportunities
employer and welcomes applicants from people irrespective of age, gender, race and disability.
Safeguarding
It is the responsibility of every member of staff to safeguard and protect vulnerable adults from
abuse. All staff are expected to undertake mandatory training relevant to the role. All staff
should familiarise themselves with the Trust Policy on “Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults” which
is available on the Trust’s intranet.
The Trust is committed to the safeguarding of children and young people and has signed up to
the Birmingham Safeguarding Children Board Policy and Procedures with which the post
holder must be familiar with and adhere to. It is the post holder’s responsibility to attend
mandatory training with regard to child protection as per the Trust’s Policy and Guidance.
Smoking
The Trust operates a No Smoking policy.
Mobility
Whilst the post holder will be based at the Birmingham Dental Hospital this is a Trust wide
appointment and travel around the Trust may be required. Flexibility with regards to timetabling
will be expected of the successful candidate.
Confidentiality
Your attention is drawn to the confidential nature of information collected within the National
Health Service. The unauthorised use or disclosures of patient or other personal information is
regarded as gross misconduct and will be subject to the Trust’s Disciplinary Procedure and, in
the case of both computerised and paper-based information, could result in a prosecution for
an offence or action for civil damages under the Data Protection Act 1998.
Job Description
This job description will be subject to discussion and reviewed on an annual basis within the
appraisal process.
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