# Speciality Dentist - Paediatric Dentistry

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** St George's Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Dentist
- **Speciality:** Paediatric Dentistry
- **Grade:** Senior
- **Salary:** £55,355 - £67,325 per annum
- **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (N/A)
- **Employment type:** Part time - 6 sessions per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-22T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-08T09:46:33.039Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/St_Georges_University_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Paediatric_Dentistry/Paediatric_Dentistry-v8228014
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8228014?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.stgeorges.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

- Ensure the daily maintenance, calibration, and cleanliness of specialized laboratory machinery, induction casting units, porcelain furnaces, and digital manufacturing equipment.
- Troubleshoot mechanical or software faults on CAD/CAM and 3D equipment, coordinating with external service engineers when required.
- Manage the safe handling, storage, and disposal of hazardous laboratory waste, chemicals, and dental alloys in strict accordance with COSHH (Control of Substances Hazardous to Health) regulations and Trust policies.
- Maintain an organized, clean, and safe laboratory workspace, ensuring full compliance with the Health and Safety at Work Act and Trust policies conducting routine risk assessments.

### Main duties of the job

- Oversee the efficient booking-in, tracking, and logging of clinical prescriptions and cases using the laboratory’s digital database and tracking management system.
- Manage stock levels of essential laboratory materials and consumables, ensuring cost-effective procurement and minimal waste.
- Maintain comprehensive, traceable manufacturing records for all custom-made dental medical devices to satisfy statutory MHRA (Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency) and MDD (Medical Devices Directive) quality and auditing benchmarks.
- Ensure all custom-made appliances are quality checked and leave the laboratory with the required compliance for patient safety.
- Coordinate the timely dispatch of completed work to clinics and external labs, tracking turnaround targets to prevent disruptions to patient clinic appointments.
- Maintain mandatory annual registration with the General Dental Council (GDC) by independently fulfilling and documenting Highly Recommended and General CPD requirements.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### Experience

**Essential**

- Ability to work in a team
- Must have proven skillset of leadership, managing or leading teams in fast paced environments.
- Diagnostic clinics for children in a hospital setting.
- Treatment of children under general anaesthesia
- Treatment of children with nitrous oxide inhalation sedation.
- Effective Participation in clinical governance, audit, management and IT skills required.
- Knowledge and understanding of the NHS policies and procedures.

### Clinical Skills

**Essential**

- Able to diagnose children with a wide range of oral and dental disease.
- Be able to treat children requiring Level 3 care.

### Professional Registration

**Essential**

- GDC registered
- Recognised Qualification

### Leadership & Management Skills

**Essential**

- Ability to communicate with clarity and intelligently in written and spoken English; ability to build rapport, listen, persuade/ negotiate.
- Ability to take responsibility, lead, make decisions and exert appropriate authority.
- Able to change and adapt, respond to changing circumstances and to cope with setbacks or pressure.
- Experience of performance management, developing and motivating staff.
- Knowledge of finance and budgets.

## Documents

- [speciality dentist - paediatric - fixed term (pdf, 400.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10537644)

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