Unscheduled Care Dentist in Bodmin

Flexible, Purpose-Led Roles (Self-Employed) at Smile Together Dental CIC | Various Cornwall Locations | Self-Employed | Flexible Hours

Your patients need you. NHS dentistry needs you. At Smile Together, we're not just delivering dentistry; we're tackling oral health inequality across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. As a certified B Corporation, we reinvest our profits into improving oral health for those who need it most.

Main duties of the job:

• Providing urgent dental care for patients (both children and adults) unable to access a General Dental Practitioner and who have an emergency or urgent dental care need.
• Providing excellence of service including written clinical detail enabling colleagues to provide face-to-face treatment or other interventions at future appointments.
• Being responsible for safe working and practice on a day-to-day basis in sites of clinical activity, ensuring compliance with clinical governance and legislation, appropriate health, safety and security procedures within the work area, and reporting accidents, incidents and near misses using the Smile Together incident reporting procedure.
• Undertaking other reasonable duties as requested by the Dental Director, Clinical Directors and Smile Together Management Team.
• Working with the Dental Director, Clinical Directors and other operational and clinical leads to ensure your experience and knowledge helps to drive service improvement.
• Supporting colleagues in the delivery of urgent and emergency care services including temperature checks with co-workers in this clinical environment.
• Working alongside clinical and professional support colleagues in facilitating ongoing organisational change and development.
• Playing a valuable part in contributing to the success of our organisation.
• Maintaining good IT skills including in the use of our Practice Management System.

What we offer:

• Self-employed contracts with flexible sessions to suit your availability.
• Site options including Truro, Bodmin, Newquay, Penzance, and more.
• Piece-rate, associate, or flexible sessional models.
• Immediate locum opportunities with the potential for long-term roles.
• Modern clinics with experienced nurse support and digital systems.
• A values-led organisation driven by community impact.

Person Specification:

• Have a Bachelor of Dental Surgery.
• Have an NHS performer number.
• Full registration with the General Dental Council and Professional Indemnity Insurance.
• Have an appropriate higher dental qualification.

Experience:

• Familiarity with NHS dental services regulations and knowledge/acceptance of NHS/local policies and guidelines.
• Trained to recognise and respond to medical emergencies (i.e. Immediate Life Support Techniques).
• Awareness of and ability to keep confidentiality and handle sensitive data.
• Experience in treating a range of oral conditions in various primary healthcare dental settings.

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of systems of care provision and current health and safety regulations.
• Knowledge of the Data Protection Act/General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and NHS Confidentiality Guidelines (e.g. Caldicott) and their implications.

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.

£14,812 to £105,800 a year. This is a self-employed role.