Dentist Lead

NHS; Taunton; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An organization part of an integrated urgent care service in Taunton seeks a Dentist Lead. This critical role involves providing clinical leadership and assurance in urgent dental care, supporting teams to enhance service quality. Candidates must be qualified dentists with proven experience in managing dental teams and urgent care services. This position offers a hybrid work model, encouraging a dynamic approach to service delivery and team engagement.

Benefits

Exclusive Discounts

NHS Pension Scheme

Wellbeing Support

Recognition and Rewards

Financial Perks

Career Growth

Office Comforts

Qualifications

• Demonstrable management experience at a senior level in clinical services.
• Proven experience of operational management of healthcare services.
• Experience with NHS procurement processes.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership across urgent dental services.
• Review and refine urgent dental care pathways.
• Support recruitment, induction, and ongoing support of dentists.

Skills

Strong visible leadership and motivation skills

Negotiation and communication skills

Data-driven decision making

Experience in urgent care services

Ability to influence and engage stakeholders

Education

Qualified dentist registered with professional body (GDC)

Leadership and management qualification

Postgraduate personal development/qualifications

Job description

Dentist Lead - Access Dental - Taunton - Devon and Dorset

Access Dental, part of HUC's integrated urgent care service, is seeking a senior dentist to take on the role of Dentist Lead. In this key leadership position, you will provide expert clinical assurance for urgent dental care, supporting safe, effective and patient-centred services across the organisation.

Working closely with operational, clinical and telephony teams, you will lead on quality, governance and best practice, while supporting dentists and staff to work in a positive, well-governed environment. You will also contribute to service development, improving pathways and processes, and representing the dental service with system partners and external stakeholders at local, regional and national level.

This role offers an excellent opportunity for an experienced clinician to influence service design, strengthen standards and play a visible part in the continued development of urgent dental care.

This is a hybrid with regular on-site presence and travel across sites depending on business needs.

Main duties of the job

Provide clinical leadership, assurance and expert dental advice across HUC's urgent dental services.

Review, monitor and refine urgent dental care pathways, processes and models of delivery.

Identify, lead and support service improvement and development initiatives.

Support the recruitment, induction, compliance and ongoing support of dentists.

Attend out-of-hours dental clinics and engage with dentists and wider staff teams.

Participate in dental and wider HUC management meetings and deputise for the Dental Clinical Director as required.

Contribute to the development and implementation of clinical governance, policies, procedures and standard operating procedures.

About us

At HUC, we're proud to invest in our people by offering a wide range of exciting benefits that support your personal, professional, and financial wellbeing:

Exclusive Discounts: Unlock savings on shopping, travel, and more, through Blue Light Card, Tickets for Good, and more. From everyday essentials to special experiences.

NHS Pension Scheme: Secure your future with the NHS Pension, offering peace of mind and long-term financial benefits for all our staff.

Wellbeing Support: Your health matters! Enjoy access to counselling services, personalised health plans, meditation guides, energising fitness routines, and delicious recipes to keep you thriving every day.

Recognition and Rewards: Your hard work won't go unnoticed! Celebrate your achievements with peer shout-outs, special awards, and exclusive event vouchers that show how much we appreciate you.

Financial Perks: Take the stress out of money matters with free financial advice, a healthcare cash plan to cover everyday expenses, and smart savings options through our Credit Union. Career Growth: Build the future you deserve with our My Academy training programs, exciting internal vacancies, and regular updates to keep you in the loop with HUC news and opportunities. Office Comforts: Stay refreshed with unlimited tea and coffee, enjoy the ease of free parking, and recharge in our dedicated relaxation areas. Plus, join in on engaging team events that make every workday more enjoyable!

Job responsibilities

For further information about this role, please see our attached Job Description and Person Specification document.

You must have full, unrestricted right to work in the UK. We are unable to provide visa sponsorships.

Person Specification

Knowledge

• Demonstrating of managing at a senior level in a range of complex integrated clinical services operating 24/7 with proven experience of senior decision making, with NHS 111 experience.
• Evidence of using data analytics to support data driven decision making and service improvements
• Proven successful experience of operational management of healthcare services
• Established capability of mobilising new, complex services in very tight timescales and budgets
• Demonstratable experience of innovative delivery solutions and implementation of digital solutions to improve productivity, access and patient outcomes.
• Experience in the successful delivery of urgent care services
• Experience in supporting and contributing to strong integrated governance, learning and improvement
• Experience of NHS procurement processes and responding to development opportunities

Skills

• Strong visible leadership and motivation skills, acting with integrity whilst valuing diversity
• Skills, capability and demonstrate experience is managing complex service change, service transformation, care pathway development and implementation of new and innovative models of care.
• A natural influencer, good communicator / presenter with proven negotiation skills, comfortable debater with sound business and technical reasoning plus commercial awareness with the ability to anticipate alternative scenarios and prepare according.
• Ability to display a sound and comprehensive understanding of the complex needs of many stakeholders in HUC; engaging successfully with colleagues at all levels and building successful working relationships when it comes to working with our executive, commissioners and agencies.
• Strong use of data to understand problems, find solutions and evaluate success
• Personally driven by high performance results by constantly measuring and evaluating the organisation's impact in achieving its KPIs and strategy.
• Strong sense of personal and team accountability, with a clear understanding of the boundaries relating to delegated authority
• Display resilience, courage and curiosity Service performance management, transformation and change

Other

• Full valid UK driving licence with access to a car or willing to use public transport where appropriate.
• Flexible to travel to other sites across the HUC geographical footprint.

Person specification

• Qualified dentist registered with professional body (GDC)
• Experience of managing dental teams
• Knowledge and experience of working in urgent care dentistry
• Understanding of the local and national dental landscape
• Ability to communicate effectively and appropriately
• Understanding of clinical quality and governance, policies, guidance and procedures
• Leadership and management qualification
• Evidence of postgraduate personal development/qualifications

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.