Specialist In Paediatric Dentistry

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 97,000 - 113,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health trust in the UK is seeking a Specialist in Paediatric Dentistry. The role involves providing advanced clinical care to children with various needs, leading clinical efforts, and working within a multidisciplinary team. Required qualifications include full GDC registration and specialty listing. Competitive salary of £97,769 to £112,360 per annum pro rata is offered. Flexible working arrangements available.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of clinical experience in paediatric/special care dentistry.
• Evidence of various methods of pain and anxiety management including IV sedation.
• Experience in developing paediatric dentistry services.

Responsibilities

• Take a clinical leadership role in developing Paediatric dentistry.
• Provide advanced clinical care to children with special requirements.
• Lead general anaesthetic sessions provided at specific clinics.

Skills

Leadership and management

Clinical judgement

Good communication

Organizational skills

Sedation techniques

Education

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

On the GDC Specialist List for Paediatric Dentistry

Tools

Dental regulations

Job description

Go back Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

Specialist In Paediatric Dentistry

The closing date is 05 October 2025

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust Dental Services holds several NHS contracts and is commissioned to provide Dental Access and specialised referral services in Community Dental Services, General Dental Practice, and prison dentistry from 20 sites, with general anaesthetic sessions at three hospitals.

It also provides local authority contracts to deliver oral health promotion and non- commissioned services including training and dental engineering.

The Service compliments general and hospital dental services and involves multiagency working to provide a range of quality dental services. The range of dental services includes Sedation, Special Care, Paediatric Dentistry, General Anaesthetics, Periodontology, Geriodontology, Domiciliary, Epidemiology, Oral Health Education, routine and emergency dental care.

Main duties of the job

You will take a clinical leadership role in developing Paediatric dentistry within KCHFT Dental Services in conjunction with the Clinical Director and our Paediatric Dental Consultant, and will be responsible for the provision of advanced clinical care to children with learning disabilities, physical disabilities, mental health problems, medically compromised, severe anxiety or phobia and other disability or conditions affects their oral health.

You will provide advanced clinical care to children in line with the defined complexity levels1,2 and 3a as detailed in the Commissioning Standards for Dental Specialities - Paediatric Dentistry. This will include sedation and general anaesthesia, domiciliary care, screening and epidemiology and oral health promotion.

You will be responsible to the Clinical Director and will assist them as required in the day-to-day operational activities. In conjunction with our Paediatric Consultant, they will be expected to take the lead on delivery of the Tooth Fairy general anaesthetic sessions provided at Barts Heath by KCHT Northeast London Dental Services. This role will be mainly clinical, but may involve teaching, training and research. The post is based in Outer Northeast London but the successful postholder will be expected to provide some clinical sessions at Inner Northeast London clinics.

Additional Working Pattern: 10 hours on a Tuesday when doing GAs, 7.5 hours on clinical day and remaining 5 hours on the third day.

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

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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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Job responsibilities

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 you 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

• Full registration with the United Kingdom General Dental Council (GDC)
• On the GDC Specialist List for Paediatric Dentistry
• Eligible for/or on a performer list

Experience

• Experience of leadership and management
• GA experience
• Can demonstrate competencies in paediatric dentistry and inhalation sedation to a very high standard
• Evidence of recent clinical experience for at least 5 years in area of paediatric/special care dentistry
• Specific experience in developing paediatric dentistry services
• Wide experience of CDS/HDS/GDS
• Experience in various methods of pain and anxiety management including iv sedation

Knowledge

• Staff management
• Political influences
• Dental regulations and commissioning care pathways for paediatric dentistry
• CQC requirements
• Evidence of member of professional organisations relevant to paediatric dentistry
• Hospital experience
• Crucial conversation and crucial accountability skills

Skills and abilities

• Able to write SOPs/guidance in relation to paediatric dentistry
• Good communication and presentation skills
• Proven track record of managing staff and clinics
• Able to manage change effectively
• Ability to make sound clinical judgement
• Able to support clinic requiring performance support
• Effective participation in audit
• Evidence of involvement with commissioning bodies and attendance at MCN
• Clinical governance lead role
• Previous experience as trainer/tutor e.g. MFDS or CDT
• Evidence of multidisciplinary in primary and secondary care plus other external agencies i.e. education and social care.
• Experience in teaching an d/or examining in paediatric dentistry or general dentistry at undergraduate or postgraduate level
• Experience of research

Personal attributes

• Excellent organisational skills
• Able and willing to drive

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.

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

£97,769 to £112,360 a yearpro rata per annum