Job details
- Job reference: 262912
- Salary: Band 6 (£43,231 - £52,679)
- Job closing date: 04/11/2026
- Job Type: Dental Support
- Location: Badenoch & Strathspey
- Employment type: Permanent
- Hours Per Week: 21.6
- Job posted date: 20/10/2026
- Employer (NHS Board): NHS Highland
- Department: Grantown and Aviemore Dental Clinics
NHS Highland has an exciting opportunity for a dental therapist to work in the Grantown On Spey and Aviemore Public Dental Service Clinics. This is a part time permanent post, working 21.6hrs/week. This post provides the opportunity to develop your career and offers an enviable work life balance.
The Highlands are a beautiful place to live and work and offer excellent schools, ample housing, access to outdoor activities while still having access to Inverness and its vital wider travel links.
You will be working as part of a larger dental team and the post will involve using your full scope of practice to provide care to patients registered within the Public Dental Service as well as those patients that are not suitable for General Dental Practice or have been referred in for care including the dentally anxious and those that are medically compromised.
For more information please contact Anne Gornall, Assistant Clinical Dental Director, tel: 01463 704635
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This advert is for Dental Therapist (Oral Health Practitioner Specialist) with NHS Highland in Inverness, Scotland. It is listed as a Band 6 Dental therapist role. The advertised salary is £43,231 - £52,679. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 04 Nov 2026.
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