Chief Dentist
To lead service development for the Primary Care directorate related to the commissioning of dental services.Workforce development within the system Responsible for leading the cocreation, development and implementation of training pathways for dental care professionals across BSW, working in conjunction with NHSE Workforce, Training and Education team Input on dental care professionals pathway in joint working with Bristol Dental school.
Strategical oversight of local apprenticeships development with available College providers Providing strategic leadership for workforce development, through assessment of clinical skill-mix and development of ICB workforce strategy Engaging dental clinical teams and expertise Influencing, leading and supporting the development of excellent relationships across the ICB to enable collaboration for better patient outcomes Establish and maintain relationships with people working in dental clinical teams within BSW.
Establish effective collaborative working to help ensure the ICB meets local and national priorities and action plans Establish good communication with key partners such as the Local Dental Committee (LDC) and Healthwatch and to support the ICB to build their relationship with key partners.Improving Quality and Outcomes Responsible for holding staff to the highest integrity by adhering to all government regulations and obligations under the General Dental Council Provide dental expertise to support the ICB to commission innovatively.
Present to the ICB feedback received from dental clinical teams, NHSE, et al on clinical needs assessments, service delivery, quality, treatment outcomes, cost-effectiveness and equity of access data; so that information may be used to inform ICB commissioning plans.
Support the ICB to develop recruitment and retention plans to make flexible and efficient use of dental skills & capacity available including developing a range of new offers such as dental fellowships. Communicate with the ICB where a need for further education has been identified with suggestions on how the need can be met.Enabling Patient and Public Involvement Support the promotion of an open and transparent policy of public engagement.
Ensure effective and regular interaction with patient and public groups in respect of feedback and consultation on ICB proposed workplans. To act as a champion for patients and their interests in respect of the strategy development and decision-making of the ICB.
Accountable for leading the system development of strategy, planning, assurance and delivery of dental services in BSW. Promoting Equality Ensure that the ICB consider improvement of care that specifically address health inequalities. Uphold organisational policies and principles on the promotion of equality.
Using insight and evidence for improvement Provide and receive highly complex, highly sensitive and potentially highly contentious information. This could include:o Communicating complicated clinical matters for inclusion in multi-stranded business cases.o Communicating with dental contractors about reduction or ending of contract where there could be significant barriers to acceptance and the environment may be hostile, antagonistic or emotive.
Data will be used to support all activities, including identifying opportunities for service improvement; identifying and understanding variation in practice, and suggesting and developing proposals to address this to the ICB. Support targeted engagement intervention as required to support the ICB to ensure that commissioning activity is delivered.
Make judgements involving highly complex facts or situations. Analyse, interpret and compare a range of options. Options may include several components and expert opinion may differ. Use dental expertise to make judgements about situations which are unique to dentistry taking into accounts complexities which do not have obvious solutions.
Improve data available to produce insight by designing and developing information systems to collate dental data. Explore incorporation into the BSW Integrated Care Record to support both direct patient care and commissioning of services. Information Governance To ensure compliance with confidentiality and governance.
To always adhere to professional codes of conduct. Research and development Influence the BSW Research and Innovation Strategy to ensure research and innovation relating to dental services are appropriately represented. Coordinate and implement research and development programmes relating to dental services.
Key Working Relationships Key working relationships will be: Primary Care, Medical Directorate and Health and Care Professional Director Local Dental Committees, Local Dental Networks and Managed Clinical Networks Public Health Directorate in BaNES, Swindon and Wiltshire Councils Dental clinical teams providing dental services across BSW including secondary, community and primary care providers Patient and Family representatives, including Healthwatch Primary Care Networks Regional Dental Public Health Team and Regional Dental Workforce Team Collaborative Commissioning Hub NHSE Workforce, Training and Education Directorate Accountability and Governance Accountable for the delegated budget for commissioning dental services (including acute, community and primary care).
Responsible for the budget setting across dental services to ensure the populations dental needs are met. The post-holder will work to annual priorities with clear objectives as defined with and agreed by the Director of Primary Care and BSWs Dental Strategy Group and other relevant Strategy and Delivery groups.The individual will be expected to make suggestions to the Director and to the Dental Operational Group and will have autonomy to undertake their role. The progress of BSW ICBs plans to improve NHS dentistry will be monitored by the ICBs Primary Care Executive Group, the ICB Executive Group and Quality and Outcomes Committee (see appendix one).
We will be held to account by BaNES, Swindon and Wiltshires Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee and by NHSE. Our responsibility is ultimately to the people of BSW and they will be key in judging whether our plans are delivered successfully.