Dental Practice Advisor

Job details

• Job reference: 253659
• Salary: Asst Clinical Director – PDS (£100,715 - £106,726)
• Job closing date: 07/09/2026
• Job Type: Medical and Dental
• Location: Kirklands - NHSL Headquarters
• Employment type: Fixed-term
• Hours Per Week: 8
• Job posted date: 24/08/2026
• Employer (NHS Board): NHS Lanarkshire
• Department: General Dental Services

Dental Practice Advisor

NHS Lanarkshire

The remit of the GDS is to manage the arrangements which the NHS Board is required to make with dental practitioners for the provision of general dental services in accordance with The National Health Services (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Regulations 2010. NHS Lanarkshire is expanding its GDS team in light of the challenges facing General Dental Services across Scotland. Within the GDS team our Dental Practice Advisors will fulfil a governance and pastoral role to practitioners, offering support, guidance and advice on all primary care dental practice matters.

We now have an opportunity for one suitably experienced and qualified General Dental Practitioner to join our team working on a sessional basis for 8 hours per week for 12 Months The main focus of this role is to provide governance support to the primary care dental department. In addition, contribute to and promote the improvement in quality of care throughout general dental practice, to act in a supportive and advisory capacity (including clinical advice, audit and quality improvement) to practitioners, and to provide advice to South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnership, which hosts GDS on a pan-Lanarkshire basis on all matters relating to NHS General Dental.

To discuss this post contact, Caroline Hyland, Clinical Director, General Dental Services caroline.hyland2@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

For any application queries, please contact Medical.dentalSAS@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

Interviews are scheduled for: 30th September 2026

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‘In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

*Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parent’s/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children’s setting/secure unit.’

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