Senior Dental Practitioner - 0.2 WTE

NHS; Metropolitan Borough of Solihull; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 96,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a Senior Dental Practitioner to join their team in Solihull. The role involves providing advanced Special Care Dentistry services, including intravenous sedation, to patients with additional needs. Candidates must be registered with the GDC and have relevant experience. This is a part-time, fixed-term position with potential for diverse responsibilities and collaborative work with healthcare professionals.

Qualifications

• Must be fully registered with the GDC.
• Experience in a Senior Dental Practitioner role required.
• Familiarity with intravenous and inhalation sedation techniques.

Responsibilities

• Provide advanced care in clinic or domiciliary settings.
• Deliver treatment to patients with additional needs.
• Ensure productivity and efficiency in service delivery.

Skills

Experience with intravenous sedation

Experience with inhalation sedation

Ability to treat diverse patient needs

Education

Full registration with the United Kingdom General Dental Council (GDC)

Relevant postgraduate qualification in Special Care Dentistry

Job description

Go back University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Dental Practitioner - 0.2 WTE

The closing date is 12 October 2025

Solihull Special Care Dental Service provides Special Care Dentistry and Paediatric Dentistry with University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, across the borough of Solihull.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Dental Practitioner to join our team to provide advanced Special Care Dental treatment to our patients.

You will be currently working in a Senior Dental Practitioner role within Special Care Dentistry, providing high quality advanced treatments and care to patients including Intravenous and inhalation sedation.

Based in the community, covering the borough of Solihull, we would be looking for someone to support our service for 1 day a week (7.5 hours) on a 12-month fixed term contract.

We would ask that you are fully registered with the GDC and have experience of working in a Senior Dental Practitioner role and providing Intra venous sedation. You must also be currently listed on the NHS Dental Performers List, England.

As a senior colleague you will be working closely with the clinical teams, offering guidance, advice and support for local colleagues and for the wider service. Collaborating with our Medical Director, Clinical Service Lead, Specialists, senior dentists and service/operational management, you will help shape the future of our dental service.

Main duties of the job

The Special Care Dental Service provides Special Care Dentistry and Paediatric Dentistry with University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, across the borough of Solihull.

• Provision of advanced care to patients with additional needs within a clinic or domiciliary
• To provide high quality advanced treatments and care to patients referred from: General Dental Practitioners, General Medical Practitioners and other healthcare Professionals
• Provision of intravenous sedation
• Provision of inhalation sedation

About us

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

Job responsibilities

• Clinical activity may be undertaken at more than one site
• To assist the Clinical Service Lead and undertake such duties as delegated
• To work with the Dentists and the Management team to ensure that agreed productivity and efficiency goals are maximised.
• To work with the management team to ensure that patient pathways are streamlined, and best practice pathways are adopted where possible.
• To work with the management team to identify cost improvements involving medical resource decisions.
• Provision of dental treatment for patients with additional needs within a clinic or on a domiciliary basis
• To provide dental treatment under general anaesthetic and conscious sedation as appropriate.
• To display behaviour's that demonstrate the Trust's values

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Full registration with the United Kingdom General Dental Council (GDC)
• Relevant postgraduate qualification appropriate to Special Care Dentistry

Experience

• Experience of working within primary care
• Experience of treating patients with additional care needs including learning disabilities, medically compromised and people with autism
• Experience of working as a Senior Dental Practitioner
• Experience of working under General Anaesthetics
• Experience of independent working with Conscious Sedation

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.

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

£52,532 to £95,579 a year dependent on experience