Consultant Oral SurgeonNHS

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Consultant Oral Surgeon to work within Northumbria Healthcare. This is a permanent contract working 6 sessions per week (3 days) based in Northumbria Healthcare, to work in sites across Northumbria and North Tyneside.

The successful candidate will be working with the other Oral Surgeons in Northumbria Healthcare and visiting colleagues from Newcastle Hospitals with the opportunity to develop skills working alongside colleagues in other specialities where appropriate.

The post holder will need to be able to work flexibly to address the priorities of the service, and maintaining flexibility to support RTT performance targets with the benefit of having a largely predictable schedule.

The base site for this post will be Hexham General Hospital but this is a Trustwide position.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable number of application are received.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will be employed by Northumbria Healthcare working across all of our sites, including Wansbeck Hospital, North Tyneside Hospital, Hexham General Hospital in a unit shared with Colleagues in Community Dental, and may be required to work on other sites utilising our theatres and our Community Dental Estate.

To provide oral surgery services to the population of Northumbria and North Tyneside. The job plan will be made up of outpatient and telephone clinics, Local anaesthetic and General anaesthetic sessions, MDT, training, education and service development.

Job description

Please refer to the attached job description which details all relevant information regarding this post.

About us

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.