Clinical Service Lead, Special Care Dentistry

NHS; Metropolitan Borough of Solihull; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen at a leading NHS Trust for a Clinical Service Lead in Special Care Dentistry. This role involves leading and developing the dental team across Solihull, ensuring high-quality patient care and effective service delivery across two clinic sites. Candidates should be registered with the GDC and have significant leadership experience in a clinical setting.

Qualifications

• Experience in leading clinical service in Special Care Dentistry.
• Substantial experience in managing clinical services and business planning.
• Competence in using sedation techniques.

Responsibilities

• Providing clinical service leadership across Solihull.
• Contribute to the planning and delivery of specialty services.
• Participate in clinical governance including audit and peer review.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical Governance

Communication

Education

Full registration with the UK General Dental Council (GDC)

Relevant postgraduate qualification to SCD (e.g. Membership in SCD, DSCD)

Job description

Go back University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Clinical Service Lead, Special Care Dentistry

The closing date is 07 July 2025

The Special Care Dental Service provides Special Care Dentistry and Paediatric Dentistry with University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, across the borough of Solihull.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Consultant in Special Care Dentistry to help lead and develop our Solihull team across two clinic sites and shape our community dentistry service. 8 PAs are available for this post.

You may be currently working in a role of Consultant, with a strong operational and strategic vision, looking for your next step towards a Clinical Service Lead role.

Based in the community, covering the borough of Solihull, we would be looking for someone to support our service for a minimum of 3 days a week, but with some flexibility to be negotiated. Tell us what would work for you. Key to this role is to demonstrate leadership experience and/or potential to drive forward the service in the future.

We would ask that you are fully registered with the GDC and on the GDC Specialist Register in Special Care Dentistry, be accredited or within six months of such accreditation at interview stage and have completed a SAC approved training programme or have demonstrated equivalent experience and training to allow entry to the specialist list by mediated entry. You must also be currently listed on the NHS Dental Performers List, England.

Main duties of the job

Job Purpose:

Providing clinical service leadership to the service across Solihull. Whilst all members of the dental team are expected to provide care for patients of all ages, the Consultant will also focus on leadership and delivery for the patient group of their specialty.

The Consultant will work in close co-operation with clinical and operational colleagues to ensure high quality patient care and contribute to the planning and development of their specialty across Solihull, ensuring that contractual requirements and Trust agreed business plans are adhered to.

The post holder will contribute to a proactive culture of learning and education within the service, supporting training and career grade schemes such as DCT where these are delivered, and promote, lead and participate in clinical audits. They will be a strong role model in the development of clinical supervision for dentists and dental therapists and participate, contribute to and lead appraisals for an agreed group of staff.

About us

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

Job responsibilities

Duties and Responsibilities:

*Actively participate in communication and key working relationships with all stakeholders.

*Contribute to the planning and delivery of their specialty within Solihull leading on key areas agreed as part of the job plan.

*To co-operate with the General Manager, Medical Director, Associate Director of Operations for the effective and efficient use of resources within the service.

*To meet agreed targets for clinical activity and management tasks.

*To participate in all aspects of clinical governance including audit, quality assurance, clinical supervision and peer review.

*Participate in the appropriate NHSE clinical networks.

*To be responsible for data collection and reports as required for the service, and to contribute/lead ongoing quality and service improvements based on the findings.

*To lead on developing outcome measures and benchmarking.

*To receive referrals for advice on difficult dental conditions or management problems from other dental care practitioners both within and outside of the Community Dental Service.

*To provide the Clinical Service Lead role across two clinic sites.

*To maintain up to date knowledge and skills on clinical techniques.

*To provide clinical advice to staff on dental matters, as appropriate.

*To be involved in assurances of achievement with local and national standards and quality indicators including those within the performance framework of the Care Quality Commission.

*To adapt flexibility to changes which occur in the service and assist in implementing such changes, as agreed with the commissioners.

*To take responsibility for identifying risks and taking action to control them as appropriate to the post.

*To line manage other senior dentists as required and to provide clinical supervision and mentoring.

*To participate in the annual appraisal processes and to lead appraisals for other team members.

*To contribute to the development of the knowledge and evidence base for delivering effective clinical care in the specialty.

*To display behaviour's that demonstrate the Trust's values

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Full registration with the UK General Dental Council (GDC) and on the GDC Specialist List in Special Care Dentistry.Relevant postgraduate qualification to SCD (e.g. Membership in SCD, DSCD, MSc in a relevant subject).Certificate or diploma in conscious sedation.Possession of (or eligibility for) a CCST in Special Care Dentistry.Undertaken a period of post CCST leadership and management training as stated in the RCS document 'Career Development Framework for Consultants in SCD March 2014.In possession of or eligible for a performer number to deliver NHS dentistry.Substantial experience in providing treatment to adults under IV and inhalation sedation and GA.Experience of management of clinical services including business planning, service targets and line management of staff.Evidence of wider involvement in professional development activities.
• Relevant educational qualification.Competence in using intra-nasal sedation techniques.Experience of postgraduate and undergraduate teaching and training.

Experience

• Substantial experience in providing treatment to adults under IV and inhalation sedation and GA.Experience of management of clinical services including business planning, service targets and line management of staff.Evidence of wider involvement in professional development activities.
• Competence in using intra-nasal sedation techniques.Experience of postgraduate and undergraduate teaching and training.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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