Dental Core Trainee

Job overview

We wish to appoint two full time 12-Month Fixed Term Trust Grade Doctors in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Dental Core Trainee Equivalent) to join our OMF service at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (GHNHSFT). The focus of this appointment will be to maintain both the delivery of an oral surgery service to patients of Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and provide a weekday, daytime, first on-call service for OMFS.

The purpose of this role is to provide a Trust Doctor post within the Trust’s Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery service. The post-holder will work in close co-operation with, and support other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality healthcare to the Trust’s patients.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will undertake varied activities including: • Supervised treatment under local anaesthetic, IV sedation or general anaesthetic • Attendance at new referral clinics & follow-up clinics (inc. 2WW) • Assessment of patients attending the Emergency Department  • Pre- and post-operative assessment of in-patient and day case patients & ward rounds • On-call responsibilities with 2nd on-call support at all times

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The successful candidate will undertake varied activities including: • Supervised treatment under local anaesthetic, IV sedation or general anaesthetic • Attendance at new referral clinics & follow-up clinics (inc. 2WW) • Assessment of patients attending the Emergency Department  • Pre- and post-operative assessment of in-patient and day case patients & ward rounds • On-call responsibilities with 2nd on-call support at all times

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