Dental Educator Lead

Location: This post will be remote working with some requirement to travel across Suffolk and North East Essex.

Are you a qualified Dentist with a passion for education and training?

Do you want to make a difference to NHS dentistry?

Do you want to create an environment that is welcoming for newly recruited NHS Dentists?

Do you want to develop and deliver a retention programme for current NHS dentists?

Suffolk and North East Essex Training Hub are seeking a Dental Educator Lead to join the team and help us make Suffolk and North East Essex the place to train and work as an NHS Dentist. This is a unique opportunity to develop and deliver education, training, and workforce initiatives that will shape the dental workforce of today and tomorrow.

This post will work with the current team to develop initiatives to support dental practices to become learning organisations, increase student placements, develop education and training packages to provide career pathways, and support retention and health and well-being.

If you are an NHS Dentist with ideas and a passion for change, this is the role for you!

Contact Julie White at Julie.white@snee.nhs.uk if you would like to find out more!

Main duties of the job

• To influence and lead relevant work streams to expand learner placements for dental students across Suffolk and North East Essex.
• To influence and lead an expansion of dental practices to become learning organisations.
• To lead and develop initiatives to support the recruitment and retention of dental professionals, making Suffolk and North East Essex a preferred location to train and work.
• To influence and lead relevant workstreams to engage with dental professionals on the benefits of developing multiprofessional teams to deliver patient care.
• To work collaboratively with Training Hub and system colleagues to develop and deliver new patient services that will enable Suffolk and North East Essex to deliver Future Shift.
• To actively promote the SNEE Training Hub and engage the GP Workforce in its development.

About us

The NHS Suffolk and North-East Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB) plans and buys healthcare services for our population. This function is commonly referred to as commissioning. To do this, we work within a budget of around £1.5 billion, which is set by NHS England, and work closely with local government and the NHS providers in our area. Our performance is judged by how well our local health and care system as a whole is working, including the health outcomes of our communities.

The ICB has delegated some authority to the three health and wellbeing alliances that operate in Suffolk and North-East Essex to act on its behalf. This is to ensure that the needs of smaller, local areas are addressed.

The ICB remains accountable for all of its functions, including those it has delegated. Local residents have a big role to play in the operation of the ICB. We rely on the experiences and perspectives of our communities to help shape our decision-making.

Job responsibilities

The job description and person specification are an outline of the tasks, responsibilities, and outcomes required of the role. The job holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager.

The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of the Department and the Organisation.

Person Specification

Other

• Passion for and belief in Dental services.
• Demonstrable commitment to and focus on quality education for the dental workforce, promoting high standards to consistently improve training and resilience in the workforce to improve patient outcomes.
• Values diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness.
• Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects, and learns from the contribution of others.
• Uses evidence to make improvements, seeks out innovation.
• Actively develops themselves and others.
• Understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships.

Equality and Diversity

• Needs to have a thorough understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships, both in terms of day-to-day working practices, but also in relation to management systems in the area.

Knowledge, Training and Experience

• Qualified dentist registered with the General Dental Council.
• Knowledge of the health system, including an appreciation of the relationships between NHS England, and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
• Experience of being an Educator in Dental Services.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Knowledge of current workforce challenges in dentistry.
• Knowledge of current NHS Quality Improvement Methodology.
• Understanding of pathways of education for dental professionals.
• Knowledge and experience of working with HEIs and education providers.
• Knowledge and experience of developing and expanding capacity of high-quality clinical learning placements.

Skills

• Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
• Negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change.
• Problem-solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
• Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options.
• Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
• Strategic thinking ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise.
• Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.