JOB DESCRIPTION FOR AN ENDODONTIST
Post Title: Endodontist (ideally Specialist) at London Dental Specialists
Hours of work: 1-2 days per month. We have just outsourced our social media marketing to ensure consistency so this is likely to increase in the near future. We are committed to attracting a colleague with the same values and who has excellent team building and communication skills.
Period of appointment: Indefinite
Employment type: Self-Employed
Remuneration: To be discussed at interview and will be based on a sessional rate (half day) model. The take home hourly rate range is £130-£170/hour.
Responsibilities: Provision of outstanding patient care within the scope of practice laid down by the General Dental Council. This will include patients with severe periodontitis. Compliance with practice administration and CQC compliance systems. Everything that is required to grow the endodontic department of the practice e.g. attendance of study clubs/course for GDPs, morning/practice meetings and assistance in maximising the return on investment in any endodontic marketing.
London Dental Specialists is a specialist, referral dental practice based in central London. We currently accept referrals for periodontics (management of periodontitis, soft tissue grafting, functional and aesthetic crown lengthening), prosthodontics (crowns, veneers and dentures), orthodontics (mainly fixed appliances), endodontics (root canal treatments, post/instrument removal, perforation repair) and implant dentistry (implant placement, bone grafting, full arch implants). Our unique selling point is based around management of complex cases where the specialists need to be in very close contact for excellent results.
Purpose of our business:
London Dental Specialists exists to change the lives of our patients and referring dentists by providing the very best dental service available in the world.
Our referring dentists choose us because they know that we understand their world.
What do referring colleagues want:
* Their patients back
* Best treatment outcome
* To be kept informed by emails and letters
* Clinical safety
* Trust in our clinical skill and trust that we will look after their patients ethically when mistakes have been made in general practice.
* Consistency
* On-going support
* To be the obvious choice
London Dental Specialists Values. We hold our team accountable for:
* A love for dentistry
* Being engaging and warm with patients, referrers and each other
* Diligence in everything we do
* Professional ethics
* A desire to really really really want to be at the top of their game
* Willingness to adapt and help in all situations.
How do we serve our patients and referrers
* Patient has an expectation of price at the point of referral from GDP/first contact with the practice
* Understanding of the treatment and the practice they are referred to.
* WhatsApp/Facebook groups
* Ongoing emails and letters. We aim to contact them once/month.
* Monitored via CRM system (customised for our practice)
Key Objectives of the role
· To provide a “special” endodontic service that is commensurate with the specialist title.
· Contribution to the delivery of the clinical care described above
· Teaching and/or mentoring of referring GDPs to ensure that colleagues feel that they have direct access to the specialist/experienced endodontist. We will discuss and establish systems in the practice so that this obligation is not onerous on the endodontist.
· Contribution to the practice administration tasks.
· Provision of the teaching and mentoring of nurses to ensure that they are available to provide the assistance required for the role
Clinical Duties
1. Primary endodontist and retreatment cases.
2. Placement of posts and peri-radicular surgery.
3. General dentistry as required
4. Active assistance in multi-disciplinary cases: perio, pros, endo and ortho.
5. Creation of stable endodontic results and liaison with our dental hygienist/therapist (where required) to ensure stable dental health.
Teaching/Supervision Duties
1. Trainee/dental nurses to ensure that excellent service is provided. The practice is responsible for ensuring that the staff provided are also held accountable for the practice values.
2. Mentoring of referring GDPs (within reason).
Administration/Marketing
1. Compliance with HTM 01-05
2. Compliance with all aspects of practice management and life
3. Compliance with policies on patient letters (email/post/signature)
4. Dental Courses/study clubs are our main way of attracting new referrals. We would like you to attend as many as you can so that we maintain our image as the home for the treatment of multidisciplinary cases. We are also happy to carry out an advertising campaign for a colleague who is an excellent communicator and team player.
5. Reasonable participation in our regular social media activity will also be helpful in demonstrating the team ethos that is very important to us.
Mentorship/Training.
The practice owner (Ope Sodeinde) is happy to provide all the one-on-one discussion required to help a new member of the team. We are looking for colleagues who relish team work i.e. colleagues who accept that multiple heads looking at the same patient creates excellent clinical results. We do not work in silos. We ran study clubs for dentists and hygiene/therapists every 2-3 months before COVID19. We are in the process of rearranging them and would like you to attend some of these for reasons already discussed. We will try to schedule some of them around your other commitments. I also run modular restorative courses for referring dentists and your contribution will be very welcome. The advantage for you would be that the more visible you are, the more referrals you are likely to receive. The practice is part of the Extreme Business 100 group. We would therefore recommend that you attend as many of the EB100 training courses as possible