Locum Consultant Paediatric Dentistry

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Job summary

A leading regional healthcare trust in Birmingham is seeking a locum Consultant in Paediatric Dentistry. The role involves coordinating paediatric dentistry services, providing dental treatment to complex cases, and supporting the education of postgraduate dentists. The successful candidate will have completed specialist training and be registered with the General Dental Council. This position offers a competitive salary and may consider flexible working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Completion of an accredited specialist training programme in paediatric dentistry.
• Registration as a Specialist in Paediatric Dentistry with the General Dental Council.
• Experience in providing dental care under general anaesthesia.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate paediatric dental services within the Children's Hospital.
• Provide dental treatment in an inpatient and outpatient setting.
• Support multidisciplinary care for patients at Birmingham Children’s Hospital.

Skills

Inhalation sedation

Collaboration in multidisciplinary teams

Clinical supervision for postgraduate dentists

Public health strategies

Education

Accredited specialist training in paediatric dentistry

Job description

Employer Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Birmingham Children's Hospital Town Birmingham Salary £109,725 - £145,478 Per Annum Salary period Yearly Closing competitive 11/02/2026 23:59

Locum consultant in Paediatric Dentistry

NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant

Flexible working arrangements may be considered and discussions with the recruiting manager regarding this are encouraged.

Job overview

The successful post holder will be appointed as a locum Consultant in Paediatric Dentistry to the sessions advertised and under the employment of the Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Trust.

The priority for this post is to support and maintain the Paediatric Dentistry Consultant Service for patients referred from hospital colleagues, general medical and dental practitioners, and colleagues across the region. Patients may also be referred from other tertiary care providers.

The Paediatric Dentistry Service at Birmingham Children’s Hospital accepts referrals of children with complex comorbidities. The service provides paediatric dental support for all restorative, surgical and orthodontic specialties.

In addition, the hospital is a designated regional and supra-regional centre for cleft, craniofacial surgery, cardiothoracic surgery (hypoplastic left heart syndrome), dermatology (epidermolysis bullosa), complex liver disease and liver transplantation, and is the national centre for paediatric small bowel transplantation.

Well‑established paediatric dental pathways exist within all these services.

Main duties of the job

• Co‑ordination of the Paediatric Dentistry Services within the Children’s Hospital, working in close liaison with NHS Consultants Sarah McKaig, Ajit;m Tanday and Alison James.
• Coordination of paediatric dental services with other secondary care providers.
• To provide dental treatment in an inpatient and outpatient setting.
• To support multidisciplinary care for those patients attending Birmingham Children’s Hospital.
• To support the education and training of postgraduate dentists and doctors in training to include clinical supervision.

Working for our organisation

Birmingham Women’s and Children’simleri NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world‑ Jing leading neo‑ natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family‑centred care.

Birmingham Children’s Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women’s Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0‑25 years old.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical duties

• To develop and expand already established patient pathways across the region.
• Provision of a treatment service for the more complex cases that are referred, working in close liaison with medical, surgical, and dental colleagues to provide an integrated service.
• Provision of specialist care under inhalation sedation for children with behavioural problems and dental phobias.
• To provide support to multidisciplinary teams where paediatric dentistry is already established as an integral component of care.
• Provision of dental care under general anaesthesia for children with medical, mental, and physical special needs at Birmingham Children’s Hospital.
• To continue to support those clinical services where there are existing relationships and arrangements.
• Collaboration with paediatric maxillofacial surgery.

Education and training

• Provision of clinical supervision, education and training for Dental Nurses, Dental Therapists, postgraduate dentists and doctors in training.
• Participation in postgraduate training across West and East Midlands under the guidance of training programme director Laura Smart.
• Participation in undergraduate training in conjunction with The University of Birmingham School of Dentistry for those involved in the dental care of children.
• To be involved in formal andכר informal teaching programmes established in the department supporting all members of the clinical team.

Public health role

• To work with Consultants in Dental Public Health in determining the needs and demands of the resident population with respect to dental care.
• To support and develop strategies to reduce oral health inequalities.
• To become a member of the Managed Clinical Network in Pa Bucketistry Dentistry for the West Midlands.

Management

• Managerially and financially accountable to the Chief Medical Officer Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Trust for the delivery and quality of services.
• Co‑ordination and development of clinical services within the Trust’s Service and Financial Framework, and in line with the Trust’s clinical strategy and clinical governance framework.

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National based NHS committee structuresContribution to national and regional NHS based committees, for example - education, research, audit, examinations, and conferences - subject to the availability of appropriate time within the job planning process and by mutual agreement.

Research, innovation and improvements in service, including audit

• To be personally involved in research. The consultant will work in national and international collaborative research programmes as opportunities arise.
• To lead and/or play an active part in national, regional sub-regional and departmental audit.
• To liaise with other providers of paediatric dental care in audit projects and to foster a commitment to evidence‑based practice.

Special clinical interests

• Encouragementafar given to develop special clinical interests which forward knowledge of the discipline or patient care within current financial constraints.
• This list of duties is intended to be an outline only and is subject to review in the light of experience and changing demands in healthcare provision.
• The post-holder will require considerable flexibility and a wide range of management skills to meet the many challenges of developing and co‑ordinating paediatric dental services.
• The applicant should have successfully completed an accredited specialist training programme in paediatric dentistry or equivalent and be registered as a Specialist in Paediatric Dentistry with the General Dental Council.

As a Trust employee you are required to comply with all legislation and guidance relating to safeguarding children and adults with care and support needs, and promoting their health and welfare. You are required to inform the Head of Safeguarding of any safeguarding concerns about your own children or childrenंद्र you live… etc.

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