Senior Dental Officer

NHS; Dover; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health trust in Dover is seeking a Senior Dental Officer to provide clinical leadership and care. You will supervise Dental Officers and manage various clinical responsibilities, ensuring adherence to clinical standards. Ideal candidates will have a dental degree and experience in NHS dentistry, with strong communication skills. Flexible working arrangements available.

Qualifications

• Current GDC registration with no restrictions.
• Experience in providing a wide range of operative dentistry for adults and children.
• Experience in carrying out treatment under intravenous and inhalation sedation.

Responsibilities

• Local clinical leadership and supervision of Dental Officers.
• Provide clinical care to identified priority groups.
• Ensure effective management of caseloads across teams.

Skills

Strong communication skills

Clinical judgement

Teaching skills

Education

Dental degree (BOS, BChd or equivalent)

Job description

Job summary

We are looking for a Senior Dental Officer to join our team. You'll be based at Dover Health Centre but may be required to work at other sites depending on service needs.

Kent Community Health NHS Trust Dental Services is commissioned to provide Paediatric and Special Care Community Dental Services, which includes Oral Health outreach programmes and epidemiology. Services compliment general and hospital dental services and involves multi‑agency working to provide a range of quality dental services. The range of services includes Sedation, Special Care Dentistry, Paediatric Dentistry including GA theatre sessions, Domiciliary care, Bariatric and Homeless services.

The service is commissioned to provide extended operating hours which may include early mornings and late evenings e.g. 8am to 8pm and providing a Saturday morning clinic.

Main duties of the job

• Local clinical leadership, supervision and clinical appraisal of Dental Officers, Dental Therapists and Hygienists as identified in annual appraisal plan.
• Specific service role allocated by the Clinical Director e.g. teaching and training, involvement in Dental Quality Group, leading on audit.
• Responsible for paediatric and special care clinical caseload.
• Undertake appropriate clinical supervision and ensure effective management of caseloads across teams.
• Provide clinical care to identified priority groups including those patients with special needs referred into the Service.
• Provide emergency and routine dental care as required.

You will have some leadership duties including complaints handling, supporting the DNTL and PM, providing assurance to the assistant dental clinical director and clinical director, interpreting data and contributing to report writing.

You will also ensure clinical policies, protocols and SOPs are embedded and support the Practice Manager to ensure that clinical staff adhere to:

• Service delivery standards.
• Clinical standards and national guidelines of relevant professional bodies.
• Trust Infection Control policies and clinical guidelines.

About us

Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we've got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent.

We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences.

We ask for information about your protected characteristics on our application forms. This isn't visible to anyone involved with shortlisting or interviewing you, except when you choose to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme due to disability. Short listers will see two ticks alongside your application to ensure they apply the principles of the scheme to your submission.

The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won't involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We'll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both.

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Recruitment notes

Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts and the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB).

As a community Trust many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. As such you will be asked to confirm you have a full UK driving licence where driving is a requirement of the role to be able to proceed with your application. We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment, if you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via [e-mail] quoting the vacancy reference number so we can support you further.

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.

At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

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Person Specification – Qualifications

• Dental degree (BOS, BChd or recognised equivalent)
• Experience in carrying out treatment under intravenous sedation and inhalation sedation

Person Specification – Desirable Qualifications

• Postgraduate qualification in conscious sedation in dentistry
• Postgraduate qualifications in special care dentistry, paediatric dentistry or other qualification registered with the General Dental Council

Person Specification – Experience

• Has current GDC registration with no restrictions and has a performer number with demonstratable experience within NHS dentistry
• Experience in providing a wide range of operative dentistry for adults and children (fillings, root treatments and provision of crowns and bridges), removable prosthetics, oral surgeries/extractions, periodontology and oral health advice (for patients and families)

Person Specification – Desirable Experience

• Experience in working with a community dental service (salaried dental service) and act as educational/clinical supervisor for dental trainees (Foundation, Early years and Core trainees).
• Experience in providing treatment under general anaesthetic, dentistry in a domiciliary setting

Person Specification – Skills and Abilities

• Strong communication skills with service users, colleagues and managers and good command of the English language both written and spoken
• Sound clinical judgement
• Teaching in 1:1 or group set up

Person Specification – Desirable Skills and Abilities

• Coaching and mentoring qualification (Level 3 or 5), Crucial conversation skills
• Supervision and mediation skills

Person Specification – Personal Attributes

• Ability to work well with a multidisciplinary team and work independently.
• Good time management to ensure work is completed in the agreed timeframe (clinical and non‑clinical)

Person Specification – Ability to Manage

• Experience in managing/ leading individuals or teams

Person Specification – Desirable Ability to Manage

• Experience in setting performance improving goals for clinical staff and managing performance issues under MHPS
• Ability to drive in the UK with a full, valid UK driving licence

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

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

Employer details

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

Dover Health Centre

Dover

CT16 1RH

https://www.kentcht.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)