Job summary
Employer heading
Locum Consultant in Orthodontics
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Job overview
Applications are warmly invited for a locum consultant as part of the expansion of our University Hospitals of Northamptonshire Orthodontic Service. You will join our established, but dynamic, consultant orthodontic team in Kettering, and also work with Maxillofacial colleagues and laboratory colleagues, treating patients across hospital sites in Northampton.
As part of the Orthodontic Team you will be supported in all aspects of the role, but you will also support, coach and impart your knowledge and experience to your team. The department has close teaching and training links to the East Midlands Deanery for DCTs, and has an orthodontic speciality trainees working within the team, as well as therapists and laboratory colleagues at both sites.
Interview date - TBC
Main duties of the job
- Flexibility: The department are delighted to consider candidates who would prefer a less than 10PA contract, and flexible working is supported.
- Timetable: The timetable will involve a regular commitment to routine secondary care orthodontic clinics, as well as fortnightly joint orthognathic clinics
- Teaching: Our proximity to London and Birmingham (1hour) means we train a London Orthodontic StR, and regularly host and attend national study meetings
Working for our organisation
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Job description
- There is no on call commitment
- 10PA contract is highly flexible but will involve joint hospital clinical activity
- Person Specification:
- See chart on the attached JD / Brochure
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- Relevant Specialty Qualification
- MD, PhD or other
- Education / Medical Edu-cation Qualification
TEACHING / AUDIT / QUAL-ITY IMPROVEMENT
Essential criteria
- Experience of Audit and Quality Improvement
- Experience of Teaching Junior Staff
- Experience of Under-graduate Teaching
- Experience in Curriculum development
MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Effective Team worker, valu-ing the experience and contri-bution of others
- Demonstrable Team Leader-ship skills and experience
- Understanding and experience of deliver-ing organisational change
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS AND RESEARCH
Essential criteria
- Publications in recognised Medicine / Medical Education Journals or Presentations at National Level
- Research experience relating to quality improvement
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kerry Herd
- Job title
- Consultant Oral Surgeon
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01604 634700
- Additional information
Please do contact Miss K Herd (Consultant OMFS) on 01604 523200 (Ext 8337) [email protected] ,
or Miss Arti Hindocha and
Ms Sarah Meadows (Consultants in Orthodontics) on 01536 493550 for a conversation or to arrange an informal visit.
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