Post: Dental Core Training Year 1 - East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
Job Description
Post: Dental Core Training Year 1 - East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
13 months full time to commence in post1 September 2016 – 31 August 2016
Number of posts available:5
Overview of Dental Core Training year 1 posts:
Dental Core Training Year 1 posts are for candidates who have already obtained a Certificate of Completion of Vocational Training, issued by a Postgraduate Dental Dean/Director within the United Kingdom. They are one year posts offered across a range of clinical environments including Manchester Dental Hospital, Acute Trust’s Department of Oral and Maxillo Facial Surgery and primary care dental practices and aim to allow the post holder to complete the Curriculum for UK Dental Foundation Training Programme.
There will be an exit assessment for certification including an interview, Dental Core Training log-book review, Educational Supervisor report and study day attendance record.
Location/s:
Locations at base, two other associated hospitals: (approximate distance: 18 miles) and with the potential for some training in MOSS Tier 2 in primary care environment.
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
Royal Blackburn Hospital
Haslingden Road
Blackburn
BB2 3HH
And
Burnley General Hospital
Casterton Avenue
Burnley BB10 2PQ
Royal Bolton Hospital NHS Trust
Minerva Road
Farnworth
Bolton
BL4 0JR
Clinical Environment:
Busy posts in three hospitals in a federated service in East Lancashire with exposure to oral surgery, oral medicine, orthodontics, restorative dentistry, all aspects of maxillofacial surgery, opportunities for audit and short research papers/projects, and the added benefit and experience of being on-call for dental and facial emergencies, and experience gained in dealing with patients who have medical co-morbidity. Duties include attending outpatient diagnostic clinics, MOS lists, operating lists, ward work and on-call duties, in a busy, friendly and supportive environment.
Outpatient clinics, operating theatres, ward work in three hospitals, and the emergency department in Blackburn.
Educational and Clinical Objectives:
Broad based clinical training to achieve competencies within all recommended areas; management, leadership, communication and professionalism learning outcomes.
Clinical competencies expected by the end of the placement include history taking, clinical examination, treatment planning (often in the context of medical compromise), immediate management of dental and facial trauma, dealing with medical emergencies in dental practice, recognition and familiarisation of drugs impacting on dental practice, dental extractions, intra-oral suturing, facial suturing, some minor oral surgery procedures such as removal of buried or impacted teeth or roots, assessment of patients for local anaesthesia, sedation or general anaesthesia, dictating clinic letters and communicating with health care professional, time management, the roles of multi-disciplinary teams and the roles of governance and audit.
The educational opportunities lead to the clinical competencies in the Dental Foundation Curriculum.
Clinical and Learning opportunities:
Each post has an assigned Educational Superviser and an individual timetable is in place for each post. Each post is supported by clinical supervision and regular appraisal are undertaken to provide/give feedback in conjunction with the E-portfolio. Full access is given to the Health Education North West (HENW) foundation training study day programme.
All clinical sessions will provide learning opportunities.
Teaching on daily ward rounds.
Presentation of patients to senior staff.
Feedback on clinical decision making and progress.
Feedback on letter-writing skills.
Opportunities to prepare short papers or research projects.
ALERT training
Life support training
Rota information
Current post-holders work on call without any overnight commitments.The rota is EWTD compliant.
On call Mon to Friday 7.30am-5pm- 1 in 6
On call Monday to Friday 4.15pm-10pm- 1 in 6
On call weekend 8am to 8pm- 1 in 6
The rest of the shifts are standard days 8am to 5pm
Admitting elective and emergency patients: assessment of medical problems, recognition of dental diagnoses.
Ward cover: communication and time management skills, familiarisation with medical conditions eg diabetes, ischaemic heart disease, prescribing, correctly requesting investigations, resource management.
Emergency patients: recognition and management of dentofacial injuries and odontogenic infection, medical emergencies.
Salary (& banding info if relevant):
Pay Scale MN21
£28,076 - £39,092 per annum plus 1A (50%) on-call banding.
Annual leave:
Minimum of eight weeks’ notice required by Trust policy, and subject to service needs of the department, and colleagues’ leave.