# Dental Practice Advisor > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for NHS Lanarkshire. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/dental-practice-advisor/20e6ecca-6e6a-4da2-9806-3a4348bee2fb - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/dental-practice-advisor/20e6ecca-6e6a-4da2-9806-3a4348bee2fb.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** NHS Lanarkshire - **Location:** Kirklands - NHSL Headquarters - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Manager and corporate - **Salary:** £100,715 - £106,726 - **Contract type:** Fixed-term - **Employment type:** Part time - **Closing date:** 2026-09-07T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-24T08:35:49.609Z - **Source information URL:** https://apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetail?JobId=264067 - **Application URL:** https://apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/DecideInternalExternal/DecideInternalExternal?JobId=264067 - **Employer website:** https://www.nhslanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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 ### Please follow the link below should you wish any further information on NHS Lanarkshire Recruitment | NHS Lanarkshire (scot.nhs.uk) ### Click here to view: NHS Lanarkshire Recruitment Pack - Dental Practice Advisor ### Additional Information for Applicants ### NHS Lanarkshire are happy to consider requests for this publication to be in another accessible format i.e. large print, braille, etc. Please contact us via either of the undernoted methods clearly stating which format is required: ‘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.’ NHS Lanarkshire has a legal obligation to ensure that it does not employ any worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK. This permission is without exception granted by the UK Border Agency. We are required to check the entitlement to work in the UK of all prospective employees, regardless of nationality or job category. Candidates who require a Certificate of Sponsorship can access further information on the UK Border Agency’s new points based system that now governs the way individuals from outside the EEA can work in the UK at www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk ## Documents - [Job Pack (PDF, KB)](https://apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/GetJobAdvertDocument?Id=1188560&JobId=264067) ## 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.