Band A Salaried Dentist

Job overview

Paediatric and Special Care Community Dental Services, which includes Oral Health outreach programmes and epidemiology. Services compliment general and hospital dental services and involves 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 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:

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

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 [email protected] quoting the vacancy reference number so we can support you further.

The job description and person specification gives 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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