Clinical Director - General Dental Services

NHS National Services Scotland; Bothwell; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Part time

Job summary

NHS Lanarkshire seeks a Clinical Director for General Dental Services to provide leadership and governance for dental practitioners. This part-time role involves overseeing quality of care and advising on dental practices across Lanarkshire, ensuring support and improvement in dental services.

Qualifications

• Experience in providng clinical leadership.
• Ability to offer governance and pastoral support.
• Knowledge of primary care dental practice.

Responsibilities

• Manage governance and provide guidance to practitioners.
• Promote quality improvement in dental services.
• Act in a supportive role for clinical advice and audits.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical Governance

Quality Improvement

Education

Qualified General Dental Practitioner

Job description

Clinical Director for General Dental Services

Part Time - 16 hours

NHS Lanarkshire - Kirklands HQ and NHSL Wide

The remit of our Primary Care Dental Team is to manage the arrangements which the NHS Board is required to make with dental practitioners for the provision of general dental services in accordance with The National Health Services (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Regulations 2010.

NHS Lanarkshire is looking for an experienced candidate to provide clinical leadership to its GDS team. Supported by our Dental Practice Advisors, the Clinical Director will fulfil a governance and pastoral role to practitioners, offering support, guidance and advice on all primary care dental practice matters.

You will be a experienced and qualified General Dental Practitioner and will lead the governance of General Dental Practitioners, in addition to contribute to and promote the improvement in quality of care throughout general dental practice, to act in a supportive and advisory capacity (including clinical advice, audit and quality improvement) to practitioners, and to provide advice to South Lanarkshire University Health and Social Care Partnership, which hosts GDS on a pan-Lanarkshire basis

Applications for the post are invited from General Dental Practitioners currently listed within the NHS Lanarkshire Dental List. Applications will be required to be completed on the NHS Jobtrain site.

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.

NHS Lanarkshire are happy to consider requests for this publication to be in another accessible format i.e. large print, braille, etc. Please contact us via either of the undernoted methods clearly stating which format is required:

To discuss this post contact, Mark Russell, Medical Director, South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnership; [e-mail]

For any application queries, please contact Nicole Hetherington, Senior HR Assistant on 01698754350 or via [e-mail]

The closing date for all applications will be midnight of Monday 30 June 2025. Requirements and details for the interview will be provided to shortlisted applicants.

‘In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

*Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children’s setting/secure unit.’

NHS Lanarkshire has a legal obligation to ensure that it does not employ any worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK. This permission is without exception granted by the UK Border Agency. We are required to check the entitlement to work in the UK of all prospective employees, regardless of nationality or job category.

Candidates who require a Certificate of Sponsorship can access further information on the UK Border Agency’s new points based system that now governs the way individuals from outside the EEA can work in the UK at www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk.

Please follow the link below should you wish any further information on NHS Lanarkshire

Recruitment | NHS Lanarkshire (scot.nhs.uk)

Interview Date: TBC