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The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Kings Lynn NHS Foundation Trust are recruiting for 2 x Dental Core Trainees for our Oral Surgery and Orthodontics department.

The friendly working environment of the unit with the experience offered gives excellent preparation for the MJDF/MFDS. Most trainees have been successful in their exam sittings. Timetabled teaching session fortnightly and quarterly CG meetings.

The trainee will be encouraged to take at least one audit project/ presentation and study leave allocated for quarterly regional study day.

The department is linked to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for Clinical Governance meetings (CG) and 1 in 11 on call with compensatory day offs.

Trainees obtain practical experience in Orthodontics at the QEH and many have gone on to specialist training posts.

This post gives OS/Ortho Joint clinic, HN MDT and IV sedation experience.

Trainees are also supervised and by the end of the year are confident to take on most Dento-alveolar Surgery under local anesthetic, IV Sedation and General Anesthetic.

If this is of interest to you, please get in touch.

• The duties will include attending outpatient clinics, performing and assisting with minor oral surgery under LA, IV Sedation and GA
• Attending and assisting with specialist oral and maxillofacial theatre cases
• Rotation with QEH between Oral Surgery and Orthodontics Department
• Attending whenever possible Major Surgery theatre sessions at NNUH during the day when on call
• On-call: Weekdays and weekends on cal at the NNUH 1 in 11.

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) King’s Lynn is located near some of the most beautiful scenery in the UK, along the north Norfolk coast, and not far from Sandringham House.

We provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based healthcare services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, in addition to parts of Breckland, Cambridgeshire and South Lincolnshire.

We have more than 4,000 staff and volunteers, approximately 530 beds, and a helipad for air ambulances. We work with neighbouring hospitals for the provision of tertiary services, including as part of regional partnership and network models of care, such as the trauma network.

In February 2022 the significant progress that has been made at QEH was recognised by the Care Quality Commission who rated the Trust as ‘Good’ in all of the core services they inspected. They recommended the Trust moves out of the recovery support system (formerly special measures).

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information regarding the role.