Specialty Doctor Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery

This is an excellent opportunity for a Specialty Doctor to join our proactive team. The post holder will be expected to embrace the culture of the unit and work enthusiastically and closely with the existing team to develop all areas of the service. The role will consist of a mixture of outpatient clinics, minor oral surgery sessions for patients under local anaesthesia, local anaesthesia with sedation, general anaesthetic sessions under reduced supervision and clinical administration.,

• Undertaking outpatient clinics independently referring to a consultant when required.
• Unsupervised day case operating for patients under general anaesthesia.
• Local anaesthetic Minor Oral Surgery lists in outpatient department.
• Provide senior level cover in the department including supervision and teaching of less experienced doctors.
• Participate in the development of maxillofacial services as agreed with the clinical lead.
• Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with medical colleagues in other specialties and participate in regular clinical meetings and other post graduate activities.
• Develop and maintain good communications with General Dental Practitioners and General Practitioners and appropriate external agencies.
• Active involvement in clinical audit and clinical governance.
• Ensure that own practice is up to date; this will include taking responsibility for own Clinical Professional Development and participating in the Trust's Performance and Annual Review System.
  
  The Royal Berkshire Hospital achieved Foundation Trust status on 1st June 2006. It was the first Foundation Trust in the South Central Strategic Health Authority. The Trust has a successful track record of delivering high quality acute medical and surgical services for 500,000 patients across West Berkshire, an area extending from Newbury in the west to Henley-on-Thames in the east, and including Wokingham and parts of Hampshire to the south and parts of Oxfordshire to the north. The Trust is one of the largest general hospital Trusts in the country and is Reading's biggest employer:
The hospital provides all those services normally associated with a very large District General Hospital. The hospital provides services on a single site for all the major specialities including Accident and Emergency, Trauma and Orthopaedics, Intensive Care, Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Genitourinary Medicine, Ophthalmology, ENT, Maxillo-Facial surgery, paediatrics (including a NICU), general medicine (including all major medical specialities including CCU, Renal Unit, ITU and gastroenterology), radiotherapy and oncology, and all the general surgical specialities.