Speciality Dentist - Paediatric Dentistry

Transformation Unit; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 67,000; Full time

Job summary

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Specialist Dentist in Paediatric Dentistry within the NHS Specialty Doctor track. You will maintain the laboratory’s equipment, manage stock levels, and ensure compliance with MHRA/Medical Devices Directive quality standards.

You will oversee prescription workflows, coordinate with external service engineers, and uphold GDC registration while contributing to child dental care across London sites.

Qualifications

• GDC registered with UK professional status.
• Leadership experience in fast-paced clinical settings.
• Experience in paediatric dentistry and multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Maintain daily calibration and cleanliness of specialized lab equipment.
• Manage stock levels of laboratory materials and consumables.
• Keep comprehensive manufacturing records to MHRA standards.
• Ensure appliances meet patient safety and quality checks.
• Coordinate dispatch of completed work to clinics and labs.
• Maintain annual General Dental Council registration and CPD.

Skills

Teamwork

Leadership

Clinical governance

IT skills

Education

GDC registration

Recognised qualification

Tools

CAD/CAM systems

3D equipment

Job description

Employer St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site St George's Hospital - Tooting Town London Salary £55,355 - £67,325 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 22/10/2026 23:59

Speciality Dentist - Paediatric Dentistry

NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor

St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the regional specialist care provider for south west London, Surrey and beyond. The trust provides a high quality, comprehensive range of health services from leading edge tertiary and trauma care to community services.

With national and regional referrals added to our local 3.5m catchment, we serve a population of around 5m.

Co-located with St George’s, University of London and with both organisations now in a formal strategic alliance with King’s Health Partners, the trust delivers with its partners high quality research and education both of which contribute to the healthcare provision of tomorrow.

Acute and tertiary health services are delivered from over 1,000 beds across two sites, by around 8,000 staff.

St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a major acute hospital that offers very specialist care for complex injuries and illnesses, including trauma, neurology, cardiac care, renal transplantation, cancer care and stroke. It has a helipad which opened in spring 2014 and the work of its emergency department can currently be seen on Channel 4’s ‘24 Hours in A&E’ programme. The hospital also provides all the usual care you would expect from a local NHS district general hospital.

We also provide services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Roehampton. These include outpatient rapid diagnostic and treatment facilities, a minor injuries unit, limb fitting services and 70 elderly, intermediate care and rehabilitation beds.

As well as hospital services, we provide a wide variety of specialist, maternity and community services to children, adults, older people and people with learning disabilities. These services are provided from St John’s Therapy Centre, 11 health centres and clinics, schools, nursing homes and people’s own homes. The trust also manages the healthcare service at HMP Wandsworth.

Job overview

• Ensure the daily maintenance, calibration, and cleanliness of specialized laboratory machinery, induction casting units, porcelain furnaces, and digital manufacturing equipment.
• Troubleshoot mechanical or software faults on CAD/CAM and 3D equipment, coordinating with external service engineers when required.
• Manage the safe handling, storage, and disposal of hazardous laboratory waste, chemicals, and dental alloys in strict accordance with COSHH (Control of Substances Hazardous to Health) regulations and Trust policies.
• Maintain an organized, clean, and safe laboratory workspace, ensuring full compliance with the Health and Safety at Work Act and Trust policies conducting routine risk assessments.

“Your job plan is anticipated to contain 4 Programmed Activities per week on average to be carried out at St George’s Hospital. This is an outline programme and you will be expected to discuss and agree a detailed job plan including your personal and professional objectives with your Clinical Lead within 3 months of your start date. Please refer to the PDF attachment for the job overview and main responsibilities of the role.

As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.”

Main duties of the job

• Oversee the efficient booking-in, tracking, and logging of clinical prescriptions and cases using the laboratory’s digital database and tracking management system.
• Manage stock levels of essential laboratory materials and consumables, ensuring cost-effective procurement and minimal waste.
• Maintain comprehensive, traceable manufacturing records for all custom-made dental medical devices to satisfy statutory MHRA (Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency) and MDD (Medical Devices Directive) quality and auditing benchmarks.
• Ensure all custom-made appliances are quality checked and leave the laboratory with the required compliance for patient safety.
• Coordinate the timely dispatch of completed work to clinics and external labs, tracking turnaround targets to prevent disruptions to patient clinic appointments.
• Maintain mandatory annual registration with the General Dental Council (GDC) by independently fulfilling and documenting Highly Recommended and General CPD requirements.

“Your job plan is anticipated to contain 4 Programmed Activities per week on average to be carried out at St George’s Hospital. This is an outline programme and you will be expected to discuss and agree a detailed job plan including your personal and professional objectives with your Clinical Lead within 3 months of your start date. Please refer to the PDF attachment for the job overview and main responsibilities of the role.

As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.”

Working for our organisation

St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey.Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).

After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Ensure the daily maintenance, calibration, and cleanliness of specialized laboratory machinery, induction casting units, porcelain furnaces, and digital manufacturing equipment.
• Troubleshoot mechanical or software faults on CAD/CAM and 3D equipment, coordinating with external service engineers when required.

Person specification

Experience

• Ability to work in a team
• Must have proven skillset of leadership, managing or leading teams in fast paced environments.
• Diagnostic clinics for children in a hospital setting.
• Treatment of children under general anaesthesia
• Treatment of children with nitrous oxide inhalation sedation.
• Effective Participation in clinical governance, audit, management and IT skills required.
• Knowledge and understanding of the NHS policies and procedures.

Clinical Skills

• Able to diagnose children with a wide range of oral and dental disease.
• Be able to treat children requiring Level 3 care.

Leadership & Management Skills

• Ability to communicate with clarity and intelligently in written and spoken English; ability to build rapport, listen, persuade/ negotiate.
• Ability to take responsibility, lead, make decisions and exert appropriate authority.
• Able to change and adapt, respond to changing circumstances and to cope with setbacks or pressure.
• Experience of performance management, developing and motivating staff.
• Knowledge of finance and budgets.

Professional Registration

• GDC registered
• Recognised Qualification

We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the trust – being excellent, kind, responsible and respectful – and behave in a way that reflects these. More information on the vision and values of St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is attached below.

Please note that this vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient applicants are received. Please check your email regularly as all candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted and informed by email or via NHS Jobs.

If you are appointed to the post, as part of your pre-employment check we will be required to verify your identity. The document/s you present for this purpose will be checked for their authenticity by scanning all known security features. These features will include:

- The machine readable zone - An ultra violet image - An infra red image

As part of you pre-employment checks, we will also be required to obtain satisfactory, written references. Please ensure that the referee details which you provide on your application form are correct. We require atleast one written reference from your current or most recent line manager. We are only able to accept references from a professional work email address.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Luis Freire Job title Service Manager Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 0208 725 0024