Specialist In Paediatric Dentistry | Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

Overview

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.

Responsibilities

• 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 disabilities or conditions affecting their oral health.
• You will provide advanced clinical care to children in line with the defined complexity levels 1, 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, you will be expected to take the lead on delivery of the Tooth Fairy general anaesthetic sessions provided at Barts Health 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.

Working pattern

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.

Organisation and culture

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.

Equality, diversity and inclusion

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.

Flexible working

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 suit us both.

Career progression

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Additional information

As a community Trust many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. 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.

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This advert closes on Sunday 5 Oct 2025