The Group NHS Foundation Trust

Russells Hall Hospital The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust is the main provider of Hospital services to the populations of Dudley, significant parts of the Sandwell Borough and smaller, but growing, communities in South Staffordshire and Wyre Forest.

Currently we serve a population of around 400,000 people from three sites at Russells Hall, the Guest Outpatient Centre in Dudley and the Corbett Outpatient Centre in , providing the full range of secondary care services and some specialist services for the wider populations of the Black Country and regions.

The Trust was authorised by Monitor to commence operation as an NHS Foundation Trust from 1st October 2008.

The Trust’s hospitals form part of a Private Finance Initiative (PFI) with Summit Healthcare and its service providers: Interserve Facilities Management and Siemens Healthcare.

The Trust employs over 5,000 members of staff providing over a million patient contacts per year across all Trust sites.

The Trust has a vision which we describe as ‘where people matter’, ensuring people are at the centre of everything we do, whether that’s patients or staff valuing everyone as an individual and ensuring the services and culture reflect our core values, which are, care ,respect and responsibility.

The maxillofacial unit is based at Russells Hall Hospital with some day case operating at the Corbett hospital. The unit undertakes a broad range of maxillofacial surgery specialising in orthognathic surgery, salivary gland surgery and the management of trauma. The unit comprise two consultants, two full time staff grade surgeons and four senior house officers. Maxillofacial trainees rotate though the unit as part of their higher surgical training. The unit shares a ward and integrated outpatient facility with the department of ENT with whom we work closely. There are also four purpose built treatment rooms with dental chair light and instrument delivery system for minor oral surgery and there is an onsite maxillofacial laboratory that provides laboratory services to the maxillofacial unit, ENT, ophthalmic and plastic surgery. There is also an orthodontic department with two consultants and three assistant orthodontists. Nursing support for the unit is provided by a mix of general nurses and dental nurses.

There is an excellent purpose built post graduate medical centre and library at Russell’s Hall with a large number of dental and maxillofacial books and periodicals. Online journals and access is also available.

The DF2 duties will include pre and post operative care of ward patients and assisting at outpatient clinics (you will be expected to see and diagnose patients with appropriate supervision). The DF2 will assist with cases in main theatre and will be trained to undertake dento-alveolar surgery in this setting. You will undertake minor oral surgery under local anaesthesia undertaking procedures such as biopsies and the extraction of simple teeth, roots and wisdom teeth, again with appropriate supervision.

The post includes the provision of a first on call cover and thus during periods on call the DF2 will be expected to be resident within the hospital. Accommodation is provided by the Trust to enable this. The on call rota is shared with the ENT juniors and the hours are in accordance with regulations governing the hours that can be worked by junior doctors and in line with the EWT directive. Maxillofacial DF2s when on call will be responsible for the management of inpatients and also the care of patients presenting to the emergency department with a range of both maxillofacial and ENT emergencies. Special training is given to the maxillofacial juniors in the management of ENT emergencies and full support from both ENT and maxillofacial senior staff is always available. Both maxillofacial and ENT juniors who have passed though the units in the past have greatly enjoyed this added experience.

All DF2s will be expected to partake in the regional training program as well as the in house training and governance program. They are also expected to contribute to the departments audit program. Funded study leave is permitted in accordance with national guide lines.