Dental Therapist in Community Dentistry

Dental Therapist in Community Dentistry - Coventry Based

37.5 hours per week

Permanent

Closing Date: 19th April 2026

Interview Date: 7th May 2026

This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly.

All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.

A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.

We have an exciting opportunity to join the friendly, highly motivated Coventry Community Dental Service (CCDS) based in the City of Coventry Health Centre, working across Coventry & Warwickshire. We require an enthusiastic and conscientious clinician to join our professional and supportive team of Dentists, Dental Therapists and Dental Nurses to provide patient focused community dentistry for people with more complex needs and conditions.

The service also comprises an Oral Health Improvement team, a domiciliary service and provides regular GA sessions at University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire.

The challenging and rewarding work of community dentistry spans a wide range of services in which there will be ample opportunity for involvement, providing opportunities to practice clinical facets of special care and paediatric dentistry, including provision of treatment under sedation.

• Deliver dental treatment working to a written treatment prescription in a clinical situation for people who have complex needs, preventing them from being appropriate to care in General Dental Practice setting.

Direct access, opening and closing courses of treatment as well as skill mixed clinics where the therapist will be sharing care leading to improved efficiency and productivity and reduced costs.

Ability to work on own initiative, including being confident in the delivery of dental care using complex techniques to meet the needs of the patients - often with complex and specific needs.

Perform fillings in deciduous and permanent teeth selecting appropriate materials using high speed equipment, completely following dental procedures.

Administration of local anaesthesia, both infiltration and nerve block anaesthesia.

Providing treatment under inhalation sedation with Nitrous Oxide.

Undertaking extraction of deciduous teeth.

Application of preventive agents.

Creating impressions.

Taking Radiographs.

Placement of pre-formed crowns on deciduous teeth.

Periodontal treatment and root debridement.

To be responsible for own time-management in both clinical and training obligations to fulfil demands of the service.

Here at George Eliot our vision to excel at patient care takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:

Effective Open Communication

excellence and safety in everything we do

Challenge but support

Expect respect and dignity

Local health that inspires confidence

Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, in house training and development, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.

We have a substantive post based on 37.5 hours working week - this is expected to comprise a clinical caseload dedicated to providing high quality specialised dental care in a compassionate environment to patients who may exhibit learning difficulties, phobias, and challenging behaviour.

To specialise in dentistry for people with complex additional needs, without direct supervision, who have been assessed as appropriate to access to Special Care Dental Service. This dentistry incorporates invasive and irreversible treatment and preventative procedures within the remit of an Oral Health Practitioner (Therapist) as laid down by The General Dental Council (GDC).

For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.

For further information please contact Julie Dale - Clinical Lead for Community Dental Service, or Louise Burden - Operational Lead.

• Dental therapy Diploma / BSc
• Current GDC registration

• Broad base of clinical experience
• Community Dental Service experience

• Possess current UK driving licence and own transport

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any…