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Job requirements
Essential
15 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Skills
Clinical: High level of clinical skills and reflective practice
- Skills
Communication: demonstrates clarity in all communication with capacity to adapt language as appropriate to the situation. Able to build rapport, listen, persuade & negotiate.
- Skills
Problem Solving and Decision Making: Capacity to use logical/lateral thinking to solve problems/make decisions. Flexibility and adaptability
- Skills
Managing and engaging others: Capacity to work effectively with others. Able to work in multi-professional teams. Can effectively supervise colleagues and team members.
- Skills
Empathy and self-awareness: Capacity to take in wider and individual perspectives. Adopt and represent Trust values.
- Skills
Organization and Management: Manages and prioritises time, workload, and information effectively. IT skills including Microsoft Office and Dental Patient Admin Systems.
- Skills
Vigilance & Situational Awareness: Capacity to monitor developing situations and anticipate issues. Capacity to operate under pressure with initiative & resilience accommodating rapidly changing circumstances.
- Experience
High level skills and experience in specialist care for patients, with a wide range of skills in Restorative techniques
- Experience
Experience in the multidisciplinary management of patients
- Experience
Experience in clinical leadership and management of Restorative services
- Experience
Experience of audit and service evaluations.
- Qualifications & Training
Full registration with GDC
- Qualifications & Training
BDS or equivalent
- Qualifications & Training
Successful completion of an SAC-approved training program
- Qualifications & Training
Intercollegiate Speciality Fellowship Exit Exam in Restorative Dentistry (ISFE), or equivalent; or within 6 months of expected date of achieving ISFE.
Desirable
1 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Qualifications & Training
Other relevant post graduate qualification Other Postgraduate qualifications (e.g. MSc, Diploma, Doctorate)
Job overview
- Assess and triage referrals to the Hospital Department against the agreed criteria to ensure that appropriate patients are accepted for treatment.
- To respond in a timely manner to referrals from GDPs and Community Dentists, providing appropriate information on assessment outcome, treatment plans and treatment to be undertaken by the referring clinician.
- To refer patients successfully treated back to the referring clinician for subsequent restorative work and ongoing oral health care.
- To maintain accurate and timely clinical records, adhering to accepted good practice with regard to patient confidentiality and consent.
- To audit the service to evaluate the effectiveness of service provision and ultimately to look at clinical outcomes.
- To participate in the Maxillo-Facial Department’s Clinical Governance programme including the Study/Journal club.
- To be involved where appropriate with audit and research programmes.
- To adapt flexibly to changes which occur in the service and assist in implementing such changes.
- To work independently and provide high quality care to patients
Main duties of the job
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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This advert is for Locum Consultant in Restorative Dentistry with St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in London, England. It is listed as a Consultant Dentist Restorative Dentistry role. The advertised salary is £113,565 - £150,569 per annum. The contract type is Fixed term: 12 months (n/A). The application deadline is 24 Nov 2026.
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