Clinical Teacher at WN

at  Kings College London

Job id: 094793. Salary: £33,885 - £63,037 pro rata, including London Weighting Allowance.
Posted: 23 August 2024. Closing date: 15 September 2024.
Business unit: Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences. Department: Centre for Dental Education.
Contact details: Professor Igor Blum. igor.blum@kcl.ac.uk
Location: Norwood Campus. Category: Academic & Teaching.
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About us:
King’s College London’s Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences is one of the foremost dental schools in the world. Recently rated fifth in the world in dentistry by the QS World University Rankings 2024, the Faculty aims to maximise impact on health and wellbeing by integrating excellence across four areas:
Education / teaching
World-class science
Clinical approaches
Patient care
The Faculty’s vision is to be world leading in dental, oral and craniofacial education, research and clinical care.
The Faculty’s international reputation attracts students and staff from across the globe. The largest dental academic centre in the UK, they teach over 700 undergraduate students, 140 graduate taught students, 300 distance learning students and 110 graduate research students. The Faculty is shaped by a diverse student and staff population which adds strength to its standing.
About the role:
Part-time (minimum one day a week) clinical teachers are required to teach in Primary Care General Dentistry for Outreach that delivers all aspects of primary care dentistry to adult and adolescent patients attending student clinics.
This post would be ideally suited to an experienced or a specialist dental practitioner with an interest in the education of dental students. A major aspect of the posts is to provide clinical teaching and support for the training of BDS undergraduate students. Clinical teachers will also be expected to deliver seminars and possibly lectures, assess students and provide feedback on their performance. Support will be provided if needed.
This post will be based at: West Norwood Site Outreach Clinic at the West Norwood Health & Leisure Centre.
Primary Care General Dentistry
About you: (the candidate)
To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential Criteria

• BDS or equivalent fully registerable primary dental qualification
• Ability to supervise undergraduate students.
• Enthusiastic approach to teaching.
• Significant demonstrable post qualification experience and expertise.
• Good communication skills.
• Commitment to ethical workplace behaviour.
• Regular attendance and good time keeping.
• Meet the UK right to work requirements.

Desirable Criteria

• Specialist qualification and Specialist listing
• MSc or similar in a relevant clinical discipline
• FDS, MFDS, MJDF or equivalent
• Certificate or other qualification in teaching

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