# Dental Officer > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/dental-officer/56766079-5760-4e8d-98b3-e19385e662c0 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/dental-officer/56766079-5760-4e8d-98b3-e19385e662c0.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Southampton - **Region:** South East - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Administrative and IT - **Salary:** £54,499 to £67,325 a year - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full-time - **Closing date:** 2026-08-10T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-21T07:58:30.957Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9348-26-1498?employerCode=C9348 - **Application URL:** https://southernhealth.tal.net/vx/candidate/apply/12012?instant=apply - **Employer website:** https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job summary Whether you are a Dentist in general practice or Special Care, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust are offering you a fantastic package to join our Special Care and Paediatric Service within Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. we are invested in you, helping you develop your skills to be the professional you want to be!The Special Care Dental Service provides preventive care and dental treatment to children and adults with additional needs who cannot receive care in a general dental setting. Ideally you will have experience of working with people with learning disabilities but don't worry if not, we will need you to be adaptable and compassionate to support our patients.We currently have a vacancy at our Special Care Dental Clinics located in the Portsmouth area and can offer an immediate start to join a team of likeminded dental professionals.At Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust we provide the best for our teams and patients with established surgeries and state of the art equipment and the use of theatre space in local hospitals. we will offer you a varied caseload where every day brings new challenges with excellent opportunities to upskill in topics such as conscious sedation and domiciliary dentistry, and access to a training budget to maintain your personal development.If you are looking for somewhere you can make a real difference with appointment times to enable quality dentistry, a career with us may be just what you're looking for! ### Main duties of the job Working with adults and children with a physical, sensory, intellectual, mental, medical, social impairment or disability and those who require specialist occasional care due to medical, physical or behavioural difficulties. It also includes care for children with extensive oral disease, those with developmental disorders of the teeth and mouth and children who are anxious or too young to accept routine dental treatment if required. ### About us Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives. Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care. We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support. Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence ### Details - Date posted: 21 July 2026 - Pay scheme: Hospital medical and dental staff - Salary: £54,499 to £67,325 a year Pro rata - Contract: Permanent - Working pattern: Full-time - Reference number: 348-DEN-12012 - Job locations: Havant Health Centre, Civic Centre Road, Havant, Hampshire, PO9 2AZ, United Kingdom, Somerstown Central Community Hub, Tyseley Road, Southsea, Hampshire, PO5 4EZ, United Kingdom ### Job responsibilities Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible. We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of organising and running clinics and supervising support staff. - Evidence of commitment to continuous professional development and currency within GDC requirements. **Desirable** - Experience of dental software (R4 or similar) - Experience in use of word processing, spreadsheet and database programmes - Previous experience in Salaried Dental Services and NHS dentistry ### Qualifications **Essential** - Current full Registration as Dental Surgeon with General Dental Council - Foundation (Vocational) Training / equivalence and current Performers List number - BDS (or equivalent) ## Documents - [HIOWH Band A JD Person Spec Nov 2024.docx (DOCX, 149 KB)](document:2997034) - [EmployeeBenefits_hiowh_v1-compressed_3.pdf (PDF, 1002 KB)](document:2997035) ## 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.