Mod Dentist

Ministry Of Defence (Defence Medical Services); Guildford; On-site; GBP 14,000 - 21,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

GDC annual fees reimbursed

Paid annual leave pro rata

Civil Service Pension scheme

On-Call Allowance

CPD training provided

Free parking

Job summary

Ministry of Defence’s Defence Primary Healthcare seeks a MOD Dentist working 18.5 hours per week to maintain high-quality dental care and operational fitness for personnel. Role balances clinical work with non-clinical duties such as meetings and admin.

The position emphasizes appropriate UK registration with GDC, ongoing CPD and adherence to NHS frameworks within a supportive military environment.

Qualifications

• Have undertaken Foundation Dentist Training (or have qualified before foundation training).
• OR have evidence of adequate current clinical experience to practice independently.
• Maintain evidence of clinical currency: minimum of 2 clinical sessions per week over the last 15 months.

Responsibilities

• Inspecting personnel and providing follow-up treatment as required.
• Providing occupational oral health assessment and dental input into standards for service personnel.
• Ensuring contemporaneous notes are recorded on integrated electronic health records.
• Managing surgery, documentation, consumables, and safe custody of data and equipment.
• Onward referral to enhanced practitioners, specialists or consultants as appropriate.

Education

Foundation Dentist Training

Adequate clinical experience

Job description

Job summary

Are you looking to work in a modern, patient-focused dental practice that prioritises quality care and professional development? At Defence Primary Healthcare, we are intent on providing an excellent service in a friendly and encouraging environment.

When it comes to delivering outstanding patient care, our motivated MOD Dentists make all the difference. We know just how valuable your skills are, so come join the wonderful team at Dental Centre Pirbright and get ready to make a positive impact!

This is a part time role consisting of 18.5 hours per week.

Benefits

• General Dental Council (GDC) Annual Fees are currently reimbursed
• Paid Annual Leave (pro rata)
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• On-Call Allowance
• Access to Civil Service Pension scheme
• Regional training days/Peer review days
• Continuous professional development (CPD) training supplied
• Discounted fee to access camp fitness facilities
• Free laundry of clinical wear & free clinical footwear
• We offer maternity, adoption, or shared parental leave
• Free parking

Main duties of the job

The provision of dental care in Defence Primary HealthCare (DPHC) dental centres, to enhance force generation and operational capability and minimise dental morbidity on operations.

As a MOD Dentist you will be contracted for 18.5 hours per week. One hour per week may be attributed to non-clinical activities including practice meetings, training and personal administration (admin). The remainder of the contracted hours are to be utilised to provide clinical outputs and work directed towards improving and maintaining the dental health and operational fitness of personnel for whom you are responsible.

Where necessary MOD Dentists will adopt a concurrent and team-based approach to ensure efficiency by completing activities such as, but not limited to referrals, lab work management, mandatory/trade specific training.

About us

Our success depends on our people, our Whole Force regular and reservist military, civil servants, and contractors, all working as one, working together seamlessly to deliver for us.

Our civil servants are a central part of this Whole Force, developing strategy, making policy, supporting ministerial decision-making and Parliamentary processes. In fact, with over 2,000 distinct roles working across 650 sites around the world, now really is an excellent time to join one of the largest, most exciting departments in government.

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is committed to attracting and retaining people from across the full range of backgrounds and enabling flexible ways of working as the norm. We offer maternity, adoption, or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks full pay followed by 13 weeks of statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, and paternity leave of 2 weeks full pay.

In return, you can expect a department that helps you learn and develop that recognises your expertise and contribution, both as an individual and part of a team.

If you've ever wanted to do more, see more, go further or be better, we have roles in more professions and vocations than ever before. Let's see where your future will take you, together.

Job responsibilities

• Inspecting all personnel for whom they are responsible at intervals in line with The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines and providing follow up treatment as required.
• Providing an occupational oral health assessment, being fully conversant with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Dental Fitness categorisation and dental input into the Joint Medical Employment Standard for Service personnel.
• Ensuring that contemporaneous notes are recorded on individuals integrated electronic healthcare records for all episodes of care.
• Ensuring that surgery management, documentation including consumable stores, the safe custody of personal sensitive data and the maintenance of equipment is always kept to a high standard.
• Onward referral of personnel to enhanced practitioners, specialists or consultants for treatment as appropriate.

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details.

Cyber and Specialist Operations Command (CSOC) is going through a significant transformation programme which aims to design the way in which the new Military Command conducts its business and delivers for Defence and the nation. As a consequence of this, posts within CSOC are/or may become subject to review and potential changes as we continuously improve across the period of the transformation programme. These changes may be minor or could be more substantive and will generate new opportunities. Throughout, the Commands transformation programme is committed to following the MODs framework on managing and supporting people through the change process and places an emphasis on early and open consultation and engagement with the Commands personnel and Trade Unions.

Selection Process

The sift will be completed within 10 working days of the vacancy closing date. Interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed.

CV

• Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications and memberships in the CV section of the application form.
• Please provide information of how you meet the criteria set out in the Job Description. You may wish to further include examples of how you have tackled similar tasks or demonstrated the skills outlined in the job advert.

To be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.

Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see the supporting information link for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

At interview you will be assessed against the following:

NHS Knowledge and Skills framework:

• NHS Core NHSC1 Communication
• NHS Core NHSC2 Personal & People Development
• NHS Core NHSC3 Health, Safety & Security
• NHS Core NHSC4 Service Improvement
• NHS Core NHSC5 Quality
• NHS Core NHSC6 Equality and Diversity

The interview may consist of a mix of direct questions and clinical situation-based scenarios.

There will be no reimbursement for any travel expenses for the interview.

Further Information

Requests to work flexibly will be considered, taking into account business needs.

As this is a part time role, the salary is on a pro rata basis from the full time equivlent stated.

All employees joining Ministry of Defence who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a 6-month probation period (unless otherwise advised) effective from the employment start date.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points-based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category, and we will not sponsor a visa. It is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points-based system.

Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected, and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

If found successful for this position, you will be required to provide evidence of your immunity to Hepatitis B. Please note that evidence of your vaccination is not a proof of your immunity, but your serology levels will be required. Failure to provide sufficient evidence may result in the offer of employment being withdrawn.

There is no requirement to deploy as this is met by our uniformed personnel, but you will form the continuity of care required by our patients when based at home.

The post does NOT offer relocation expenses (move of home, excess fares or temporary transfer). Non-Standard move applicants will be eligible for the full package, subject to eligibility.

This vacancy is part of the A Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative. For further information please visit https://www.gov.uk/government/news/making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact [e-mail].

The Ministry of Defence requires all candidates who are successful at interview to declare any outside interests. These declarations will be discussed with successful candidates following the interview process and before a formal offer of employment is made, as some outside interests may not be compatible with MOD civilian roles. This will not, in the majority of cases, prevent employment in MOD, but it is a measure that must be taken to ensure that appropriate mitigations can be put in place to manage any potential, perceived or actual conflicts of interest from the first day of employment.

The Ministry of Defence adopts a zero-tolerance approach to unacceptable behaviours, which includes bullying, harassment, sexual harassment, discrimination, and victimisation. You will not be eligible and will not be considered for this post if you have been dismissed from a role for such unacceptable behaviours within the last five years. This will also apply if you resign or otherwise leave a role but, because of an adverse decision, would have been dismissed for gross misconduct had you continued in that employment. Pre-employment checks will be carried out.

The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments.

For details on our complaints procedure, please see the attached Important Information document.

Person Specification

Registrations and Memberships

Essential

• Full registration with the General Dental Council (GDC) without conditions. Please provide your membership registration number and ensure you include details on any current, spent or impending restrictions to practice.
• You are required to be registered with the relevant professional body, as detailed in the advert, prior to submitting your application. Your application will not progress should you fail to provide a valid registration number.

Provide a CV

Essential

• Please copy and paste your full CV as your response to this question; you will not be able to upload your CV as an attachment.
• Please ensure to refer to the essential criteria where applicable as your application may be rejected should insufficient information to shortlist be included.
• Please use double spacing where possible.

Qualifications

Essential

• Have undertaken Foundation Dentist Training (or have qualified before foundation training became compulsory in the National Health Service).
• OR
• Have evidence of adequate current clinical experience (either in the United Kingdom or abroad) to be able to practice independently.

Experience

Essential

• To ensure patient safety, applicants are required to have maintain evidence of clinical currency undertaking operative primary dental care, specifically a minimum of 2 clinical sessions per week over the last 15 months.

Behaviour Statement

Essential

• Have you been dismissed for gross misconduct relating to bullying, harassment, discrimination or victimisation from any role in the past five years, or resigned or otherwise left a role but would have been dismissed for such gross misconduct because of an adverse decision, had you continued in that employment?
• Please respond with Yes or No as appropriate.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.