Role Summary
Are you an orthodontic consultant seeking a rewarding and fulfilling career where you will be part of a cohesive and established team? We can offer you a varied role, where you can enjoy a diverse and complex caseload, the opportunity for service development, digital innovation, teaching and research, while being encouraged to develop your own areas of special interest.
Your main base will be the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Heavitree). The dedicated clinic is open plan and air-conditioned - perfect for providing a calming and relaxing environment for patients, while being suited to teaching and supervision of our trainees. You will also provide a weekly clinic at our dedicated facility at North Devon District Hospital in Barnstaple. Both clinics benefit from on-site orthodontics laboratories.
Be part of an NHS trust that values and invests in its people. A great work-life balance and fantastic lifestyle awaits you with Devon’s stunning coastlines, breath-taking National Parks, and vibrant cities.
About the Role
For full information on the role, the service and living in Devon, please take a look at our comprehensive Consultant Information pack.
More about the role
The Orthodontic departments in Exeter and Barnstaple cover all aspects of Secondary Care Orthodontics and work closely to the NHS England Orthodontic Commissioning Guide. This includes the combined management of patients affected by cleft lip and palate, dental trauma and developmental dental abnormalities. The department has a well-developed high-volume orthognathic surgery service for patients with significant dental skeletal anomalies.
Our team. You will join an established team of two part-time and one full-time Consultant Orthodontists, together with speciality trainees and the successful development of orthodontic therapists integrated into the team. Along with specialist dental nurses, technologists, receptionists and medical secretaries.
We also work closely and collaboratively with colleagues in Oral and Maxillofacial team, Restorative Dentistry services and the Southwest Regional Cleft Lip Palate team.
Please take a look at our Consultant Information pack for full details of this varied role that can offer:
1. teaching
2. research
3. service development
4. career progression
5. training and development
6. a great work life balance
If you’re ready for a new challenge and a fantastic quality of life, we’d love to hear from you. Please contact Emily Simpson, Executive and Specialist Recruitment by email
About Us
Stretching across Northern, Eastern and Mid Devon, we have a workforce of over, staff, making us the largest employer in Devon. Our core services, which we provide to more than, people, cover more than 2, square miles across Devon, while some of our specialist services cover the whole of the peninsula, extending our reach as far as Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
We deliver a wide range of emergency, specialist and general medical services through North Devon District Hospital and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Wonford). Alongside our two acute hospitals, we provide integrated health and social care services across a variety of settings, including community inpatient hospitals, outpatient clinics, and within people’s own homes. We also offer primary care services, a range of specialist community services, and Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC).
Our state-of-the-art equipment, leading technologies and strong links to local universities put us at the forefront of research and innovations, enabling us to provide world-class care to our local communities.
Our values are at the heart of everything we do, click here to find out more
It has never been a more exciting time to join the Royal Devon, as you will help to shape our services as we continue along our integration journey.
Benefits
Looking after you is important to us.
We strive to help our staff create a healthy work-life balance through flexible working schemes and our family friendly policies.
If you are starting out in the NHS, you’ll start with days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to days plus bank holidays depending on grade and years of service.
You will benefit from access to our own comprehensive occupational health services, including counselling, onsite wellbeing activities and groups.
We will work together to maintain a culture that develops and supports you and your team.
This might include funding for a care certificate, a degree or leadership qualifications. Or it might include days off to study, engage in CPD or rotational placements to help you hone your skills. Wherever you are heading in the NHS, we will help you get there.
Salary is not the only financial benefit
You will have access to an extensive range of staff discounts on shopping, fitness and leisure options and you can spread the cost of technology and home appliance purchases from major retailers. You will also have access to other benefits including:
7. National discount services such as the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts.
8. Salary sacrifice options including our OFSTED rated outstanding nursery onsite at Exeter
9. Car lease schemes.
10. The NHS Pension scheme (one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK).
11. Cycle to work scheme
These are just a few of the benefits available – if the role is something you are interested in, we would love to hear from you.