Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

Foreword

Acknowledgements

List of contributors

Chapter 1: Introduction

The National Health Service
Career
Portfolio career
Working paradigms
Planning your career
Being a dental professional
Workforce and workforce planning
Bibliography

Chapter 2: Demography and society in the United Kingdom

Demography – general
Population size
Population age
General health
Oral health
Health of dentists
Dental care professionals
Working patterns
Impact on dental professionals
Technology rising
Retirement
Bibliography

Chapter 3: Dental opportunities

Is the dental workforce today the workforce we will need in 10–20 years and beyond?
How can I develop a portfolio career?
Dental careers – variety and opportunity
Useful organisations
Bibliography

Chapter 4: Coaching and mentoring

Coaching
Mentoring
Career planning
Personal development
Useful organisations
Bibliography

Chapter 5: Case studies of dental professionals

Mrs Janet Clarke MBE
Miss Bal Chana
Dr Shazad Khan Malik
Dr Emma Worrell
Mrs Sophie Noske
Professor Ros Keeton
Dr Derek Richards
Professor Deborah White
Dr Reena Patel
Mrs Penny McWilliams
Short biographies
Conclusion

Chapter 6: Networking and networks

How do you network?
What networking should not be
Where can you network?
Types of network
Electronic networks
Network map
Curriculum vitae

Chapter 7: Training and qualifications

Credit accumulation transfer schemes
Clinical programmes
Non-clinical programmes
Financial investment
Other sources of information about courses
Useful organisations and networks
Case studies
How to develop experience
Professional associations and other useful addresses
Bibliography

Index

End User License Agreement

List of Illustrations

Chapter 1: Introduction

Figure 1.1 Kom Ombo wall, north of Aswan, showing 2000-year-old surgical instruments. Taken by the author in February 2012.
Figure 1.2 Sources of British pride. Source: Ipsos MORI 2013. Making sense of society, NHS at 65. https://www.ipsos-mori.com/newsevents/blogs/makingsenseofsociety/1553/Maintaining-pride-in-the-NHS-The-challenge-for-the-new-NHS-Chief-Exec.aspx#gallery[m]/0/ (last accessed 18 March 2015).
Figure 1.3 Model illustrating moving between sectors and occupations.
Figure 1.4 Career cycles (adapted from Super et al., 1996).
Figure 1.5 Out with the old…
Figure 1.6 …In with the new.
Figure 1.7 Push factors.
Figure 1.8 Career types and ideal careers (Brousseau and Driver, 1994).

Chapter 2: Demography and society in the United Kingdom

Figure 2.1 Projected change in the age structure of the population in England to 2032. Source: Office for National Statistics (2010). Statistical Bulletin. 2008-based subnational population projections. Reproduced with permission under the Open Government Licence: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/2/ (last accessed 18 March 2015).
Figure 2.2 Population in England, 1971–2011. Source: ONS mid-year population estimates, NHAIS. Reproduced with permission under the Open Government Licence: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/2/ (last accessed 18 March 2015).
Figure 2.3 Population in England, indexed, 1971–2011. Source: ONS mid-year population estimates, NHAIS. Reproduced with permission under the Open Government Licence: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/2/ (last accessed 18 March 2015).
Figure 2.4 Proportion of the population with physical and mental health problems (England) 2012. Source: The King's Fund. Time to Think Differently. http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/time-to-think-differently/audio-video/case-change-slide-pack. Last accessed 18 March 2015. Reproduced with permission of The King's Fund.
Figure 2.5 Proportion of males and females overweight or obese, 2010. Source: The King's Fund. Time to Think Differently. http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/time-to-think-differently/audio-video/case-change-slide-pack. Last accessed 18 March 2015. Reproduced with permission of The King's Fund.
Figure 2.6 Percentage of adults in England with no teeth, 1968–2009. Source: Adult Dental Health Survey.
Figure 2.7 Changes in mean dmft/DMFT for children in the United Kingdom, 1973–2003. Source: http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130107105354/http://www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/@dh/@en/documents/digitalasset/dh_4123885.pdf (last accessed 18 March 2015). Reproduced with permission under the Open Government Licence: http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130107105354/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/open-government-licence.htm.(last accessed 18 March 2015).
Figure 2.8 Proportion of 5-year-old children with no missing, filled or decayed teeth, 1973–2011/12. Source: Data are taken from results of caries surveys of five-year-olds in England from the Children's Dental Health Surveys and NHS Dental Epidemiology surveys, 1973 to 2012. http://www.nwph.net/dentalhealth/Oral%20Health%205yr%20old%20children%202012%20final%20report%20gateway%20approved.pdf (last accessed 18 March 2015).
Figure 2.9 Variation in proportion of 5-year-old children in England with experience of dental caries, with 95% confidence limits, 2011/12. Source: Data are taken from results of caries surveys of five-year-olds in England from the Children's Dental Health Surveys and NHS Dental Epidemiology surveys, 1973 to 2012. http://www.nwph.net/dentalhealth/Oral%20Health%205yr%20old%20children%202012%20final%20report%20gateway%20approved.pdf (last accessed 18 March 2015).
Figure 2.10 Periodontal health by age group in the United Kingdom, 2009. Source: Adult Dental Health Survey.
Figure 2.11 Time series and future projection of adult dental health, 1998–2030. ‘Healthier’ is defined as having 18 or more sound, untreated teeth. ‘Less healthy’ is defined as having less than 18 sound, untreated teeth. Source: Improving Dental Care & Oral Health – A call to action evidence resource pack, NHS England, Feb. 14 Gateway ref: 01173. Data taken from the Adult Dental Health Surveys 1998 & 2009, Health and Social Information Centre. http://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/qual-clin-lead/calltoaction/dental-call-to-action/ http://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/cta-dent-evid-pack.pdf (last accessed 18 March 2015).
Figure 2.12 Self-reported expected age at retirement, Manchester and Dundee dental students (2007).

Chapter 3: Dental opportunities

Figure 3.1 Teule Hospital, Muheza, Tanzania. November 1985.

Chapter 4: Coaching and mentoring

Figure 4.1 The ‘Forton Transformational Coaching 4-Quadrant Diagram’. Reproduced with permission of the Forton Group Ltd. (www.thefortongroup.com).
Figure 4.2 Steps in career planning.

Chapter 5: Case studies of dental professionals

Figure 5.1 Potted curriculum vitae: Janine Brooks MBE.
Figure 5.2 Potted curriculum vitae: Janet Clarke MBE.
Figure 5.3 Potted curriculum vitae: Bal Chana.
Figure 5.4 Potted curriculum vitae: Shazad Khan Malik.
Figure 5.5 Potted curriculum vitae: Emma Worrell.
Figure 5.6 Potted curriculum vitae: Sophie Nosk.
Figure 5.7 Potted curriculum vitae: Ros Keeton.
Figure 5.8 Potted curriculum vitae: Derek Richards.
Figure 5.9 Potted curriculum vitae: Deborah White.
Figure 5.10 Potted curriculum vitae: Reena Patel.

Chapter 6: Networking and networks

Figure 6.1 Network map.
Figure 6.2 Sample curriculum vitae.
Figure 6.3 Functional CV.

List of Tables

Chapter 1: Introduction

Table 1.1 Organisations that impact on dental professions in the United Kingdom, by country
Table 1.2 Moving from old paradigms to new ways of working
Table 1.3 Number of dentist GDC registrants (31.12.13)
Table 1.5 Number of general dental practices (2013)
Table 1.6 Relative numbers of dentists per English practice
Table 1.7 General dental practices (BDA members 2013)

Chapter 2: Demography and society in the United Kingdom

Table 2.1 Age of dentists registered with General Dental Council (31 March 2013)
Table 2.2 DCPs registered with the General Dental Council, by age and professional group (31 March 2013)
Table 2.3 Self-reported expected age at retirement, BDA members (2013)

Chapter 3: Dental opportunities

Table 3.1 Major aspects of dentistry and their subdivisions
Table 3.2 Comparison of job grade categories
Table 3.3 Number of dentists registered by specialty, 31 December 2013

Chapter 4: Coaching and mentoring

Table 4.1 Area for development: record keeping
Table 4.2 Area for development: endodontics
Table 4.3 Nonacademic development activities

Chapter 6: Networking and networks

Table 6.1 Types of network
Table 6.2 Networking Web sites

Chapter 7: Training and qualifications

Table 7.1 Providers of post-registration training
Table 7.2 Royal colleges
Table 7.3 Universities
Table 7.4 Other courses/programme providers
Table 7.5 How to develop nonclinical experience

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Foreword

As someone who many might say reached the top of a dental career pathway, I think it is really interesting to look back and analyse what the principle drivers were in that career.

Developing a successful career involves a range of skills and an ability to be analytical in assessing the needs of the population, ignoring high-profile commercial pressures and learning where to get objective and constructive advice and criticism.

I think it is fundamental to understand that change is a constant and not to see change as a challenge but as an opportunity. An unreasonable commitment to the status quo is unlikely to lead to a successful career.

The significance of change and the need to treat it as an opportunity is true whether we are talking about a purely clinical career, be that in specialties or in general practice (and I think that differentiation will blur more and more in the coming years), the development of services or the area of public health.

The oral health of the nation has improved dramatically during my career, as have patient expectations and clinical techniques.

Ultimately, to feel fulfilled during your career you need to feel you have played your part in improving services to patients and have used your skills to the full.

A quality service, on both macro and micro scales, is one which is safe, clinically effective and makes the patient feel they have been treated with respect.

Key to the delivery of this aim is the development of high-quality clinical and professional leadership, and using your clinical skills and knowledge to improve services and outcomes for patients is one of the most rewarding things you can do. I would urge readers to take note of the advice in this book, which is written by someone who has a good knowledge of education and leadership.

Barry Cockcroft CBE
Chief Dental Officer for England
2006–2015

Acknowledgements

I have been incredibly fortunate to have received contributions from a number of talented dental professionals, who between them demonstrate a huge range of the roles and responsibilities available to us in dentistry. They have generously written their career stories and shared their CVs with me and allowed me to pester them frequently for information. I am very grateful to them all, and I believe their words make careers in dentistry more accessible. As role models, they are second to none.

List of contributors

Jackie Arnold
Geraldine Birks
Malcolm Brady
Steve Boyle
Steve Brookes
Helen Caton-Hughes (for permission to use the ‘Forton Transformational Coaching 4-Quadrant Diagram’)
Bal Chana
Manish Chitnis
Janet Clarke MBE
Jane Dalgarno
Jane Davies-Slowik
Ken Eaton
Sara Holmes MBE
Ros Keaton
Estelle Los
Grainee Lynn (for checking accuracy)
Shazad Malik
Penny McWilliams
Margaret Nash
Sophie Noske
Reena Patel
Claudia Peace
Nichola Peasnell
Keith Percival
Heather Pope
Derek Richards
Ian Taylor
David Thomas (for checking accuracy)
Peter Thornley
Deborah White
Emma Worrell

I am also extremely grateful to a non-dental professional who has also contributed so generously of his time: John Brooks, my husband. He has tirelessly proof read the manuscript and offered a much needed sense check, allowing me to see the wood for the trees.