# Assistant Clinical Director - Dentistry > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/assistant-clinical-director-dentistry/5ce44b85-160f-45c5-972c-dec1d003ca92 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/assistant-clinical-director-dentistry/5ce44b85-160f-45c5-972c-dec1d003ca92.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Oxford - **Region:** South East - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Manager and corporate - **Salary:** £101,434 - £116,573 per annum | pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-22T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-08T09:12:32.136Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Oxfordshire/Oxford/Oxford_Health_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Dentistry/Dentistry-v8120739 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8120739?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you an experienced and inspirational dentist ready to take the next step in your leadership career? Join Oxfordshire Community Dental Service as our Assistant Clinical Director (Dentistry) and play a pivotal role in shaping high-quality, patient-centred dental care across the county. This is a full-time role based at our headquarters in Oxford. This is a brilliant opportunity to combine clinical excellence with strategic leadership. Working alongside the Clinical Director, you will help lead a dedicated multidisciplinary team, drive service improvement, champion clinical governance, and support the delivery of outstanding care for patients with complex needs, including paediatric, special care and urgent dental services. You'll have the opportunity to influence service development, mentor and develop colleagues, contribute to reducing health inequalities, and build strong partnerships across primary and secondary care. Alongside your leadership responsibilities, you'll continue to maintain an active clinical role, ensuring you remain connected to patient care. We're looking for an enthusiastic, collaborative leader with significant clinical experience, excellent communication skills and a passion for delivering safe, innovative and compassionate dental services. If you're ready to make a lasting impact on patients, colleagues and the future of community dentistry, we'd love to hear from you. ### Main duties of the job - Deputise for the Clinical Director (Dentistry) in the leadership and management of the Oxfordshire Community Dental Service across a range of sites and settings. - Assist with the strategic provision of oral and dental healthcare for the Trust and to champion the improvement of health inequalities of the population. - Assist with managing all clinical dental performers in the service while working in both primary and secondary care, and support with the management of contracts and service level agreements including those with secondary care providers such as general anaesthetics and medical physics. - Maintain an effective senior clinical role and will be required to provide clinical sessions for special care and paediatric patients as appropriate. - Provide professional and clinical advice to colleagues, service users, Boards, Committees and other stakeholders as required. - Deliver teaching and training to dental staff as required. Interviews for this role are scheduled for Wednesday 29 July. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Provide clinical and strategic leadership for the Community Dental Service Support and deputise for the Clinical Director in leading and managing the Oxfordshire Community Dental Service across multiple sites, ensuring safe, effective and high-quality service Maintain an active senior clinical role Deliver specialist clinical care for patients with complex needs, including special care, paediatric and urgent care patients, while providing expert clinical advice to colleagues and stakeholders. Lead and develop the workforce Provide visible leadership through staff management, appraisals, job planning, performance management, teaching, training and supporting the professional development of dental teams. Drive clinical governance and service improvement Lead integrated governance, oversee quality assurance and clinical performance, ensure compliance with operational policies and KPIs, and contribute to the planning and delivery of high-quality, clinically effective services. Build partnerships and influence service development Work collaboratively with commissioners, secondary care providers and other stakeholders to support service planning, contract management, reduce health inequalities and improve patient outcomes across the county. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Excellent communication skills - Excellent team working - Provides visible leadership - Open and inclusive attitude - Good timekeeping and deadline skills - Involvement in staff training and development - Able to work flexibly with role and to organise and prioritise own workload - Good IM&T knowledge and skills - Able to maintain standards of service delivery - Ability to deal with sensitive information and respect confidentiality - Good office skills and maintenance of records ### Knowledge **Essential** - Knowledge of wider dental agenda - Knowledge of primary care dental services commissioning - Knowledge of clinical governance agenda - Political awareness ### Experience **Essential** - Evidence of significant recent clinical experience - Experience in treating a broad range of patients - Experience of CDS/GDS/HDS - Experience of staff management - Experience of teaching or supervising staff (therapists/dental officers/DCTs') - Relevant experience in clinical governance, quality assurance and audit - Experience of complaints and concerns management **Desirable** - Evidence of research and publications ### Qualifications **Essential** - A primary care dental qualification registrable with the General Dental Council - Full registration with the General Dental Council - Dental foundation training or equivalence or exemption from dental foundation training - Relevant post graduate qualification - Evidence of membership of professional organisations relevant to clinical area of expertise **Desirable** - Managerial qualification - Teaching qualification - Evidence of management and leadership training ### Personal qualities **Essential** - Able to work as part of a team - Enthusiastic, resilient and able to work under pressure - Good professional conduct and appearance - Commitment to high ethical standards - Willing to work flexible hours ### Contractual requirements **Essential** - Have NHS performer number (on appropriate list required for Trust dentistry services) - Have enhance DBS as working with children and vulnerable adults - Hold a full UK driving licence and have use of a car - Ability to travel independently between sites within the Trust - Ability to travel to multiple sites - Able to work flexibly - Willing and able to work out of hours ## Documents - [assistant clinical director (dentistry) (pdf, 680.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10416895) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.