SENIOR DEPUTY DIRECTOR DENTAL SERVICES II/ CHIEF DENTAL SPECIALIST

For appointment to this grade, a candidate must:

                i.          Served in grade of deputy director of dental services/ senior dental specialist for a minimum period of three years

              ii.          Bachelor of Dental Surgery degree in any of other equivalent qualification from an institution recognized by medical practitioners and dentist board

             iii.          Master’s degree in the relevant field recognized by medical practitioners and dentist board.

             iv.          Registration certificate by the medical practitioners and dentist board

               v.          Valid practising license from medical practitioners and dentist board

             vi.          Certificate in strategic leadership development programme lasting not less than six weeks from a recognized institution

            vii.          Certificate in computer application skills from a recognised institution and

          viii.          Show outstanding professional competence and administrative capability and initiative in the general organization and management of the pharmacy function

Duties and Responsibilities

i.             Providing clinical services in area of specialization.

ii.           Initiating development and review of dental health policies guidelines strategies and programs

iii.         Providing consultancy services in dental health in the facilities

iv.          Participating in planning coordinating and implementing dental health programs services

v.            Overseeing training guiding and mentoring of dental offices and interns

vi.          Managing department stores including essential dental medicine/ consumables and equipment

vii.        Coordinating development and implementation of a dental health information system

viii.       Conducting ward rounds theatres and clinics

ix.          Coordinating the preparation of work plans and budgets ensuring management of patients records overseeing development and maintenance of departmental invention/stores and dental commodities

x.           Overseeing collecting and collating of patients data for management and planning of dental health services

xi.          Initiating and coordinating research and dissemination of finding

xii.        Coordinating staff performance management in dental health services.