Support makes you stronger and is the key to elevated patient care
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Over the last year or so, the ongoing challenges presented by necessary changes to practice life would have tested your resilience and perhaps, at times, your positivity. To thrive in any profession, it is important to love what you do; in dentistry, that love comes from helping patients. Dental treatment can be life changing, it can deliver a solution to pain, returning an individual to good health. It can allow someone to smile again after years of low confidence. Or maybe your greatest sense of achievement comes from seeing patients continue to maintain excellent oral health between appointments because you have shown them how to take great care of their teeth and gums.
Since practices were allowed to reopen last June, you still might be spending less time with your patients than you would like. In dentistry, the number-one priority is to ensure the provision of the highest quality care; patients come first and when you build relationships with them, treatment plans are tailored to their needs, leading to successful outcomes. No matter what stage you are at in your career, what you learn from patients, and your interactions with them, will help you to hone your clinical and interpersonal skills, to become the best dentist you can be.
We are now well into 2021, with much to be hopeful for, but you may feel that there are a million-and-one things that need taking care of, every day, alongside your clinical work. Some of these might be the result of new guidance for practices, others have long been time-consuming sources of stress – but all you want to be focusing on is your patients, and on enjoying your dentistry. Another layer to this is the potential consequence of so many missed appointments due to the pandemic. Going forward, dentists know they are going to have to do even more to meet their patients’ needs and raise standards of oral health, which may mean broadening their service provision and learning new skills and techniques.
This year, many of you will be looking for your next role as part of a ‘reset’ or refresh of your career – seeking out something that will allow you to deliver the kind of dentistry you really want to do, being fully engaged with your patients, so you can love your job and be inspired by both the possibilities and the challenges ahead. These may seem a lot of personal and professional achievements to aspire to, but this is when working for the right dental provider can offer a wealth of benefits for any clinician, no matter how many years you have had in practice. The right provider will be committed to investment in training and education for all members of the team, and also ensure efficiency and smooth workflows for the clinicians in the practice, which will make it a supportive and positive place to be.
If you’ve dismissed the idea of running towards more change after such a turbulent period, when you work for the right provider, who shares your ethos of prioritising patient care and nurturing individuals, you won’t have to worry about how you’d deal with any more unexpected events, because you won’t be on your own. Change is part of life – in fact, dentistry has been changing for some time now. So rather than being unprepared, isn’t it better to get ahead of the curve and embrace change as inevitable?
The reality is that it to become an exceptional dentist, you need the support of a well-run practice, and a team that is professional and knowledgeable. A well-supported dentist is a happy dentist, with everything needed to deliver exceptional care in the daily working environment – as well as good people, that will include reliable equipment, tools and quality materials. But you also need reasons to stay motivated because the future looks bright and secure. This is what Rodericks Dental has to offer. It is a clinically-led organisation, dedicated to supporting clinicians in practice, alongside ongoing education and training opportunities designed to encourage career progression. Run by dentists and dental professionals with clinician experience, they understand what you need to deliver excellent patient services. When you know the support is there, this will strengthen your dentistry and, in turn, elevate the standard of patient care.
Although none of us know what is around the corner, this is the perfect time to move on to a practice that offers both stability and the chance to grow and be constantly inspired by what you do. Teamwork is key to better patient outcomes so it’s crucial for everyone to share the same goal – to deliver an exceptional level of services, to improve oral health for the population.
For more information on the career opportunities available at Rodericks, please visit www.rodericksdentalcareers.co.uk,
or contact Ashley Lillyman at recruitment@rodericksdental.co.uk or on
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Author: Cathie Brady
Cathie has worked with Rodericks for over 10 years, Initially as a Clinical Advisor and then as Associate Clinical Director for Support and Development. Cathie wants to continue the ethos that Rodericks are working hard to achieve which is to be a listening organisation both to our patients and to our teams with the aim to improve quality by support and development. ‘We want to help our teams improve their performance by providing good quality CPD courses and ensuring that career development plays a key part in ensuring job satisfaction’.
Cathie qualified at Liverpool Dental Hospital in 1989 and went on to work in secondary care, completing a general duties post in Manchester Dental Hospital prior to working in maxillofacial surgery and orthodontics. Cathie then entered general practice and founded Bloxham Dental Practice in 1996 where continues to treat patients.
In 2002 she became an approved trainer for newly qualified dental graduates and has worked with the Oxford and Wessex Deanery since 2005, initially as a Primary Care Induction Advisor, guiding overseas dentists and now as a Training Program Director for foundation dentists.
As well as maintaining her clinical practice, Cathie has undertaken a varied postgraduate portfolio: She is currently also a GDC Council and In 2003 she gained her Fellowship in Dental Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. In 2010 she gained her Certificate in Medical Education; and in 2014 her Masters in Law, both awarded by Cardiff University.
