Band A Salaried Dentist

Main area: Paediatric and special care dentistry

Grade: NHS Medical & Dental: Salaried Dentist - A

Contract: 1 year (Fixed term/Secondment)

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (7.5 hours Monday to Friday)

Site: Hainault Clinic and Langthorne Clinic

Town: London

Salary: £50,512 - £75,767 + £2,162 London weighting pro rata per annum

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 09/07/2025 23:59

Interview date: 16/07/2025

Job overview: Paediatric and Special Care Community Dental Services, which includes Oral Health outreach programmes and epidemiology. Services complement general and hospital dental services and involve multi-agency working to provide a range of quality dental services. The range of services includes Sedation, General Anaesthesia, Special Care Dentistry, Paediatric Dentistry, Domiciliary care, Bariatric and Homeless services. In both Kent and North East London, services are provided to patients in medium secure units and in Kent only dental services are provided to prisons.

Main duties of the job:

• Responsible for the running of the immediate clinical environment and the immediate dental team.
• Responsible for a paediatric and special care clinical caseload. This will include the provision of domiciliary care and/or working in a mobile dental unit.
• Responsible for the provision of dental care at HMP sites as required by service need (Kent only).
• Undertake appropriate clinical supervision.
• Ensure clinical policies, protocols and SOPS are embedded and support the Practice Manager to ensure that clinical staff adhere to:

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

Working for our organisation: 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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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 suits us both.

Detailed job description and main 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 kentchft.recruitment@nhs.net quoting the vacancy reference number so we can support you further.

The job description and person specification give 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.

Find out more about the community difference here. Good luck! We can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity.

Person specification:

• Full registration with the UK General Dental Council.
• Satisfactory completion of Dental Foundation Training year.

• Experience of working with children and adults with special needs.
• Experience of delivering treatment under inhalation sedation.
• Experience of delivering dental care in a range of dental service settings e.g. mobile dental unit &/or domiciliary setting.
• Epidemiology fieldwork.
• Delivery of treatment under intra-venous sedation/general anaesthesia.

• Legislation affecting Dentistry; Dental regulations, CQC requirements, HTM01-05 Infection Control and other national guidelines relevant to clinical dentistry.

• Enhanced clinical skills which will support the delivery of services outlined in the service specification.
• Ability to organise and prioritise own workload.
• Working with and developing the clinical team.
• Delivering care to patients and communicating with their carers and families.
• Skills to provide dental care under sedation.
• Communication skills required to build partnerships with stakeholders outside the immediate clinical environment.

• Compliance with GDC standards for dental professionals, and knowledge and skills to promote these standards within the clinical team.
• Willingness to work with a variety of different patient groups.
• Understanding of responsibilities with regard to issues such as poor or under performance.
• Involvement in audit, appraisal and peer review.
• Commitment to developing and maintaining relevant skills.
• Interest in leading projects and service development.
• Interest in clinical research.

• Ability to lead and manage the immediate clinical environment and team.
• Ability to teach and train.

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.

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.