ROYAL LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY DENTAL HOSPITAL ANDALDER HEY CHILDREN’S (NHS) FOUNDATION TRUST

SPECIALTY TRAINEE IN PAEDIATRIC DENTISTRY

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Profile

A Specialty Trainee (NTN) appointment in Paediatric Dentistry is available.

It is the primary objective of this training programme to produce Specialist Paediatric Dentists to M. Paed Dent level.who could provide local specialist services in a primary care setting or go on to further training to FTTA level..

The post is based equally at Liverpool Dental Hospital and at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital.

Introduction

Liverpool Dental Hospital is the main centre for specialist dental advice and treatment in the Mersey Region. It also fulfils a similar role for the surrounding regions and serves a large population of the North West of England and North Wales. It is an undergraduate teaching school and provides excellent postgraduate training. There are strong links with the University of Liverpool and the Medical School.

Alder Hey Children’s Hospital is a centre of excellence in paediatric surgical and medical care and receives referrals from throughout the U.K.

Entry Requirements

The Specialty Trainee will be appointed by a committee comprising representatives of the Postgraduate Dean, Specialty Training Committee, the Teaching Hospitals, University of Liverpool and National Panel of Specialists.

Candidates must hold a registerable dental degree (B.D.S. or equivalent) and must be eligible for full registration with the GDC. MFDS or equivalent is desirable.

Applicants will be expected to provide evidence of their competence to communicate in English.

1.GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE AREA

Liverpool is a dynamic city. It has experienced a major revival over the past few years and Merseysiders enjoy a superb quality of life. Liverpool is unusually compact and travel both into and around the city is fairly stress-free.

The county abounds with fine architecture, lively cultural pursuits and outstanding sport. Tourism has become a major industry and 20 million people visited the city last year attracted both by the area’s natural and man-made assets.

Liverpool was European Capital of Culture in 2008 and Merseyside’s theatres, museums and art collections are now amongst its strongest assets. The City is alive with independent theatre groups, authors, poets and dance groups. Photography, sculpture, street art and video makers abound. The Walker Art Gallery contains a collection equal to any in the provinces and the Tate Gallery opened in 1988 on Liverpool’s waterfront at the refurbished Albert Dock. The Philharmonic Orchestra is nationally acclaimed and there is a full range of musical activities of all types.

There are both Anglican and Roman Catholic Cathedrals and facilities for worship for every other faith in the city. There are excellent schools for both gender, including a variety of denominational schools, both in the private and public sectors. Very good housing in pleasant suburbs near the sea and in rural areas is available, the cost of which is rather less than the national average.

Two airports are within easy reach, Liverpool John Lennon and Manchester International Airport, which is within three quarters of an hour driving time. There are excellent train services and motorway links to all parts of the country, with easy access to the National Parks of North Wales, the Peak District and the Lake District, as well as to both the Lancashire and North Wales coasts.

2.THE HOSPITALS / DEPARTMENTS

Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital NHS Trust (RLBUHT)

The Royal Liverpool University Hospital was opened in 1978 and became a self-governing Trust within the NHS in April 1991. It subsequently amalgamated with Broadgreen Hospital NHS Trust to form the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals Trust (RLBUHT) in 1995.

Most medical and surgical specialties are represented within the Trust. Many of the departments offer a service for tertiary referral from within and outside the region. It is the main teaching hospital in the region for the University of Liverpool and is adjacent to the University Campus. The Clinical Academic Departments of the Faculty of Medicine are situated within the Trust.

Liverpool University Dental Hospital

Liverpool University Dental Hospital (LUDH) is an integral part of the RLBUHT and forms one of the clinical directorates of the Trust. Located on the main teaching hospital campus alongside the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital (LUDH) occupies a self-contained modern building on Pembroke Place, originally constructed in the late 1960s. It has undergone a series of major refurbishments in recent years that have significantly extended and upgraded its surgeries, teaching clinics, patient waiting areas and, most recently the Oral Surgery Department in summer 2013.

The Liverpool University Dental Hospital (LUDH) provides a regional service to the inhabitants of Merseyside covering the full range of dental specialties, including oral surgery, oral medicine, paediatric, restorative, orthodontics and special care dentistry. There is an Oral Diagnosis Department which accepts limited numbers of walk-in patients for teaching purposes and operating facilities for day case patients requiring treatment under general anaesthesia or intravenous sedation. The Hospital has approximately 160 dental units, including six 20-unit teaching clinics, consultation and teaching suites for all the dental specialties and its own dental technical laboratories.

There are approximately 60,000 outpatient attendances per year, plus 5,000 self-referrals through the Oral Diagnosis department.

A team of 29 full-time, part-time and honorary consultants receive secondary and tertiary referrals from throughout the area of the former Mersey Health Region and beyond, as well as participating in the training of dental undergraduates and junior staff. There are strong links with the Regional Maxillofacial Unit (MFU) at Aintree Hospitals Trust, a leading centre nationally for the treatment of oral cancer, and a number of consultants from the MFU have sessions in the Dental Hospital.

School of Dental Sciences

The Liverpool University Dental Hospital also houses the School of Dentistry, and supports a cohort of approximately 350 dental undergraduates. The School is one of six within the University of Liverpool Faculty of Health and Life Sciences’ Institute of Learning and Teaching. The Head of the School of Dentistry is Professor Callum Youngson.

All areas of dental, medical, biomedical, veterinary and biological sciences research within the University of Liverpool were brought together into the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences as part of the university’s restricting in 2009/10. Key research strengths have been identified and embedded into five Research Institutes within the new Faculty. All research active academic staff in the School of Dentistry are aligned to one (or more) of the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences Research Institutes: Ageing and Chronic Disease; Infection and Global Health; Integrative Biology; Psychology, Health and Society; and Translational Medicine (see These Institutes enhance existing collaborations and foster interdisciplinary alliances, allow better integration of related research activities and increase the critical mass focusing on areas of research with high impact. A number of NHS consultants actively participate in clinical research.

The School of Dentistry has a substantial full-time academic staff supported by a number of part-time staff with many honorary appointments held by hospital staff. Within the Faculty of Health of Life Sciences, the School of Dentistry is represented on the Faculty Management Team and all the Faculty Quality Assurance Committees. The School has its own Board of Studies that reports to the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences. Strong links exist between the School of Dentistry and Dental Hospital.

Paediatric Dentistry, Liverpool University Dental Hospital

This department is responsible for both the routine dental care of children and also specialist Paediatric dental services. The clinic space is shared with Orthodontics and has just undergone major refurbishment work. The Paediatric Dental department consists of 10 dental chairs and one side surgery. Inhalation sedation and intravenous sedation is undertaken in the recently refurbished sedation suite, which consists of three dental units. There is also an equipped endodontic unit with a Dental microscope and advanced endodontic equipment’s to facilitate endodontic treatment in children.

There are three consultants in Paediatric Dentistry one who shares her time between Alder Hey and the Dental Hospital There are strong links with the Dental department and Alder Hey.in medical and surgical specialties.. There is a close working relationship with other dental specialtieswithin the Dental Hospital.

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

The Royal Liverpool Children’s Hospital, Alder Hey (AHH) was founded in 1914 and, is regarded as the largest children’s hospital in Western Europe. The hospital is the birthplace of modern paediatric anaesthesia. The hospital is one of the few with a University Institute of Child Health. There are 20 specialist services, which include bone marrow transplant, burns, cleft lip and palate, cancer, renal replacement and spinal injuries. The supra-regional services include cardiology and craniofacial surgery.

The first paediatric intensive care consultant in the UK was appointed to the Royal Liverpool Children’s Hospital. Royal patronage was granted in l985 and Alder Hey became a first wave Trust in l991. More recently, the Trust has become involved in the National Booked Admissions Pilot Programme. This Trust is a major community provider of health care, operating on 38 different sites, providing a wide range of community childcare health services, as well as collaborative services with Social Services.

The Trust has a first class reputation for saving the lives of sick children and a proud history of medical achievement and clinical innovation. It is an international centre of excellence, treating more than 200,000 children a year from a wide catchment area including North Wales, Shropshire and the Isle of Man. As well as being a tertiary referral hospital for many conditions, with paediatric specialists for most areas in children’s medicine, it also provides the general paediatric service and clinics for the locality.

The Trust is now building a new, state-of-the-art 270-bed hospital – ‘Alder Hey Children's Health Park’, in the adjacent Springfield Park. The hospital has been designed with the input of children to be a child-friendly environment, as well as being an exciting and functional design. The doors to the new hospital are due to open in late-2015. All the outpatient and inpatient departments within the organisation have been designed bespoke to the needs of the patients that attend that particular department, in all occasions by a dedicated Health Park Team and Alder Hey staff in order to offer our patients and staff the best experience possible in our Hospital.

Paediatric Dental Department

The Trust has a Paediatric Dental Department which encompasses the specialities of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Orthodontics and Paediatric Dentistry. In addition, the department forms the main base for the Regional Cleft Palate Unit.

New patient referrals are seen through Consultation clinics. Thedepartment is responsible for both the routine dental care of children and also specialist paediatric dental services. A wide range of compromised patients are seen from those with special needs to those with medical and physical disabilities. There are facilties to provide dental treatment for these children under local anaesthetic with or without sedation,and also under general anaesthetic.

In the past year there have been over 4100 attendances with 1100 being new patients.

THE POST

  1. It is expected that the successful candidate will enter into a specialist (pre-CCST) training in Paediatric Dentistry. The outline training programme has been approved by the Specialist Advisory Committee in Paediatric Dentistry and the Dean for Postgraduate Dentistry, Health Education England, North West.
  1. The training programme would extend over a 3 year period (full time) and would be based on the SAC approved Paediatric Dentistry CCST programme. Training would be based at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital and Liverpool Dental Hospital.
  1. The successful candidate will take part in all aspects of clinical governance activities in the directorate and participate in appraisal and postgraduate educational activities.

The Trainers

The appointee will be responsible through the Training Programme Director, Ms Sharon Lee for the satisfactory performance of their duties. Full clinical support for training will be given by consultants within the Department in both Hospitals.

STAFFING

Liverpool University Dental Hospital

  • Ms S LeeConsultant and Joint Clinical Lead
  • Dr S Al BadriHonorary Consultant, Senior Lecturer and

Joint Clinical Lead

  • Mr N WillmottConsultant (P/T)
  • Miss L GartshoreLecturer and FTTA
  • Miss Y ChauSpecialty Dentist in Paediatric Dentistry
  • Mrs S WalleyClinical Teacher (P/T)
  • Ms A RobertsClinical Teacher (P/T)
  • Miss J HookClinical Teacher (P/T)
  • Mrs C ManningClinical Teacher
  • Paediatric Dent DCT 2/3
  • 2 x DCT 1
  • Dr J HarrisonConsultant in Orthodontics
  • Mr S RudgeConsultant in Orthodontics (P/T)
  • Mr R GibsonConsultant in Orthodontics (P/T)
  • Dr N FlanniganSenior Lecturer& Honorary Consultant

Orthodontics

  • Mrs A MacphersonClinical Director& Consultant Special Care

Dentistry

  • Professor C C YoungsonHead of Dental School

Royal Liverpool Children’s NHS Trust – Alder Hey

  • Ms S LeeConsultant and Clinical Lead in Paediatric

Dentistry

  • Mr Rod LlewelynConsultant in Paediatric Dentistry (P/T)
  • Mrs S ClugstonSpecialty Dentist in Paediatric Dentistry

(P/T)

  • tba Specialty Dentist in Paediatric Dentistry
  • Mr S VanEedenNWNW Clinical Director and Cleft Surgeon

and Consultant in OMFS

  • Mr C PenfoldCleft surgeon and Consultant in OMFS(P/T)
  • Mr J PhillipsLocum Consultant in OMFS (P/T)
  • Mr M BoyleConsultant in OMFS (P/T)
  • Mr M KhuranaConsultant in Orthodontics (P/T)
  • Dr J RussellConsultant in Orthodontics and Cleft (P/T)
  • Dr S Dominguez-Gonzalez Consultant Orthodontist and Cleft

Lead

  • 3 x DCTsPaediatric Dentistry and OMFS
  • 2x FTTAOrthodontics (P/T)

Main Activities & Responsibilities:

  • To undertake specialist (pre-CCST) training in Paediatric Dentistry.
  • To undertake clinical procedures within the curriculum for Paediatric Dentistry.
  • To attend continuing education courses as appropriate.
  • To provide an exemplary ethical standard as a role model for students at all levels.
  • To take part in all aspects of clinical governance activities in the Directorate and participate in appraisal and postgraduate educational activities

Clinical duties will include patient consultation clinics and operative sessions for provision of care under the direction of Consultants in Paediatric Dentistry for patients who have been referred for secondary and tertiary care.

It is anticipated that the week will be divided as follows:

1Audit /Teaching

1Administration/Study .

8Sessions devoted to the clinical aspects Paediatric Dentistry training.

However, this arrangement is indicative of the role and will be a result of balancing the needs of the Department with those of the individual. For part-time or job-share appointments, timetables will need to be discussed individually.

The list of duties given above is not exhaustive and the post holder may be asked to undertake other duties in line with the grading of the post, as may be required by the Training Programme Director.

Planning and Organising

This will involve:

  • Planning and prioritising daily activities with regards to clinical duties.
  • Dealing with reactive requests daily such as those relating to teaching, students and administrative tasks.

Audit

Monthly meetings are to be arranged within the Department and are attended by all clinical staff. The specialist registrar will be expected to organise and minute the Departmental Audit meetings.

Journal Club

Journal Club meetings are held in the Department. The specialist registrar and lecturer will share the responsibility for arranging these meetings.

Education and Training

Performance assessments and reviews (ARCP) are carried out annually by the Health Education England North West in conjunction with Training Grade supervisors. If in the opinion of the ARCP panel, the Trainee fails to show adequate commitment or progress, career guidance will be arranged, and exceptionally, in the absence of satisfactory progress, the Panel may recommend that the contract be terminated.

Informal appraisal process will be implemented whereby the Trainers and Trainee will provide each other with regular feedback. Towards the completion of training the Trainee will be expected to pass the Tricollegiate Membership in Paediatric Dentistry prior to the award of CCST. Successful completion will allow the Trainee to be registered on the GDC Specialist List in Paediatric Dentistry.

CONDITIONS OF SERVICE

The post is covered by the Terms and Conditions of Service for Hospital and Medical and Dental Staff and by the General Whitley Council Conditions of Service where appropriate.

For all new entrants to the Health Service, a medical examination will be required prior to confirmation of the appointment.

This post is subject to an enhanced level Criminal Records Bureau check.

HOURS

The appointment is full-time, 10 sessions - 40 standard hours per week.

TENURE

The Specialist Trainee will be allocated an English National Training Number guaranteeing subject to satisfactory progress to Specialist level.

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EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

The Liverpool Dental Hospital and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital are equal opportunities employers. The policy of the Trust Board is that all employees and potential employees will be treated equally and fairly and decisions on recruitment, selection, training and personal development will be based solely on objective and job related criteria, irrespective of their gender, age, race, disability, background, sexuality or religion.

CONFIDENTIALITY

Through the course of your employment you may become aware of information concerning patients or staff. All such information must be treated as confidential. Breach of this confidence may result in dismissal.