Senior Dental Officer

Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Chadderton; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 82,000; Full time

Job summary

North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for a Senior Dental Officer to lead the Community Dental Service in Oldham. You will work with the Clinical Director and Dental Nurse Team Manager to guide a team including dentists on a core training pathway, across our Greater Manchester sites as needed.

The post requires leadership, strong clinical skills, and experience in special care dentistry, sedation or general anaesthesia, and a commitment to accessible care for

Qualifications

• Post-qualification experience treating adult special care and paediatric patients.
• Experience with diverse patient groups and governance activities.
• Experience in primary dental care service in the UK.
• Leadership in a multi-disciplinary team.
• Experience working in salaried community dental care or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Lead a Community Dental Service team providing high-quality care for patients with disabilities.
• Collaborate with Clinical Director and team to ensure timely, stigma-free care.
• Support leadership of dentists on a core training pathway across sites as needed.
• Act as a visible leader and drive service improvement.

Skills

Leadership

Interpersonal skills

Team development

Clinical governance

Domiciliary dentistry

Sedation/deneral anaesthesia

Dentally software

Education

BDS or equivalent

Full GDC registration

NHS Performer number

DBS clearance

Sedation certificate/diploma

Tools

Dentally software

Job description

Go back North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust (BCH)

Senior Dental Officer

The closing date is 06 November 2026

*** Pleasenote this post is internal to North Cheshire and Mersey employees ***

We are seeking an enthusiastic and conscientious dentistwith good interpersonal and clinical skills to support leadership of theCommunity Dental Service in Oldham. The successful applicant will work closelywith the existing Senior Dental Officer, Clinical Director and Dental NurseTeam Manager to lead a team, which includes dentists on a core trainingpathway, in a busy clinic. There will be the requirement to work across otherclinical sites in Greater Manchester depending on service need.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder willhelp to lead a team providing a high standard of dental care for patients whoare unable to receive care in a general dental practice environment, includingpatients with disabilities and children requiring inhalation sedation orgeneral anaesthesia. Applicants should have current or recent experience ofworking in a UK-based salaried primary care dental service and should haveestablished and demonstrable skills in the provision of oral health care forchildren and adults with special needs. Applicants should also ideally have widerange of experience, which may include providing dental care under sedation andgeneral anaesthesia, domiciliary dentistry and dental epidemiologicalfieldwork. Applicants should be able to demonstrate their leadership skillsthrough reflection on previous experience.

About us

Flexible working will be considered for all roles.

North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust (NCM) serves more than one million residents across the Halton and Warrington boroughs and the wider North West region.

Bringing together community and out-of-hospital services (formerly provided by Bridgewater Community Healthcare) with inpatient and elective care (formerly Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals) we provide services at two hospital sites and more than 70 community hubs and facilities.

Our mission, vision and values are at the heart of North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust (NCM).

They underpin everything we do and everything we aspire to be as an organisation.

Our mission

We will be exceptional for our patients, our communities and each other

Our vision

We will be a great organisation providing excellent healthcare and opportunities to work and learn

Our values

• Kind: We are caring, supportive and respectful to everyone
• Open: We are honest, transparent and open to new ways of working
• Fair: We listen, value our differences and are inclusive to all
• One team: We work well together and with our communities

Job responsibilities

Thepost holder will be an essential member of the Community Dental Service taking ona leadership and team building role. They will work as part of a team ofclinicians within the North West Community Dental Service of North Cheshire andMersey NHS Foundation Trust. They willwork closely with the Clinical Director, the Specialist in Special CareDentistry, the Clinical Lead and the Head of Operations to ensure that serviceusers receive high quality care in a timely manner and that this care will befree from stigma, discrimination or harm.

Theywill be expected to be a visible and responsive leader setting the standardsfor others to follow and to be engaged in service improvement.

Clinicallythe post involves the provision of comprehensive routine and specialised dentalcare to children and adults whose dental needs cannot be fulfilled withinGeneral Dental Services.

Thepost is based within the areas we serve within Greater Manchester and thelocation of work will be based upon service need.

Full Job Description attached.

Person Specification

Experience

• Significant and demonstrable post qualification experience of treating both adult special care patients and paediatric patients
• Experience of working with a wide range of patient groups
• Able to demonstrate relevant experience in Clinical Governance, Quality Assurance and Audit
• Participation in a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience of working in Salaried Primary Dental Care Service (Community Dental Service) or equivalent

Job Specific Requirements

• The ability to travel independently across the Trust
• The ability to work flexibly in accordance with service needs
• The ability to work independently
• Can demonstrate the competencies of a Band B dentist

Skills & Knowledge

• Provision of all aspects of routine dental care
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Leadership and organisational skills to aid team development and an ability to motivate other staff
• Self-motivated
• Treatment on a domiciliary basis
• Participation in epidemiological fieldwork
• Use of Dentally software

Qualifications

• BDS or equivalent
• Full GDC registration
• NHS Performer number
• Appropriate DBS clearance
• Meets professional health requirements and is fit to carry out the duties of the post after reasonable adjustment under the terms of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 have been made
• Certificate / Diploma in conscious sedation or equivalent

Right to Work

• Do you currently have the unrestricted right to work in the UK?
• If appointed, will you require sponsorship under a UK work visa route (now or in the future)?
• Please note that sponsorship is not available for all roles. Sponsorship will only be considered where the post meets the relevant UK immigration requirements and where the organisation determines that sponsorship is appropriate for the role.

Relationships

• If you are related to a director or have a relationship with a director or employee of an appointing organisation, please state the relationship.

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.

North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust (BCH)