Fixed Term Consultant Orthodontist

Job overview

Applications are invited for a  consultant orthodontist post to join our multi-disciplinary team in the Orthodontic & Maxillofacial Unit at Lincoln County Hospital on a full-time basis (part-time considered).

Orthodontics at ULTH provides a clinical service across the beautiful county of Lincolnshire, working in close cooperation with the Maxillofacial surgeons and the regional cleft lip and palate team to deliver excellent patient centred care. The department also has a long history of clinical teaching with a trainee based on the Lincoln site.

Applicants must be on the GDC specialist list in Orthodontics and hold intercollegiate speciality fellowship examination in Orthodontics or equivalent. A full person specification is available within the job description.

This consultant position is a replacement post based at Lincoln County Hospital or Grantham and District Hospital, working across both sites within job-planned activity. This post involves clinical supervision of our specialist registrar trainee who works at Lincoln Hospital and Charles Clifford Dental Hospital, Sheffield. Clinical work focuses on patients with severe malocclusions and those requiring multi-disciplinary care, but some less complex cases are also treated by our Dentist with Special Interest (DwSI) colleagues.

Main duties of the job

The appointee will be expected, in conjunction with his/her colleagues, to provide a comprehensive, county-wide Orthodontic service to the population of Lincolnshire.

In addition, they will be required to:-

• Participate in the treatment of patients undergoing orthognathic surgery, oral surgery and patients under the care of the regional cleft lip and palate service.
• Take part in team,  department, regional and national Audits.
• Have continuing responsibility for patients in their care and for the proper functioning of the department.
• Be involved in research where appropriate.
• Participate proactively in the development and management of the Orthodontic service in line with the Trust's Business Plan.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The secondary care orthodontic service in Lincolnshire is a Trust-wide ‘hub and spoke’ service. The administrative centre is based in Lincoln County Hospital, where this post is based.

Any national/external duties which relate to the consultant’s professional role and responsibilities can be factored into a job plan with agreement of the head and neck surgery clinical director and the general manager.

Consultants are encouraged where possible to also attend regional orthodontic audit and specialty training committee meetings.

It is intended that the successful candidate will join the existing team of orthodontic therapists, laboratory technician staff, oral and maxillofacial surgery clinicians and clinical assistants who work in the secondary care sector in Lincolnshire. The workload consists of new, review and treatment patients, the majority of whom fall within IOTN 5. Most referrals come from GDPs, primary care specialists or DwSIs and many cases are managed collaboratively with Maxillofacial colleagues. Patients are also seen for ‘consultant second opinions’ when clinically appropriate.

It is expected that the successful candidate will be prepared to work closely with the Area Team commissioners and the primary care orthodontic providers as part of the managed clinical network (MCN) to ensure that an effective and comprehensive orthodontic service is available to the population of Lincolnshire.

Audit

The hospital has an agreed rolling programme of audit sessions timetabled one year in advance and the orthodontic department combines with the maxillofacial surgeons to participate in this. South Yorkshire and East Midlands deaneries have combined regional orthodontic audit days to enable the regional consultants to liaise, plan and join in with regional and national clinical governance.

Teaching and education

There is a postgraduate medical education centre and an excellent medical library which serves all medical personnel in Lincolnshire, situated at the County Hospital Lincoln. In the library there is a qualified librarian in charge and borrowing facilities with the British Library. Postgraduate dental education courses are also held in Lincoln Hospital in the education centre and the dental skills room.

The Trust is committed to further education and wherever possible funding will be provided for audit or research programmes. Individual research is encouraged as far as facilities allow and our links with the new Lincoln Medical School and University of Lincoln will allow us to foster this.