Senior Dental Officer; Maternity Cover

Main area Community Dental Grade NHS Medical & Dental:
Salaried Dentist - B Contract 12 months (Fixed Term) Hours Part time - 22.5 hours per week Job
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Employer The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Pendeford Health Centre Town Wolverhampton Salary £81,716 - £95,579 Per annum (pro rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 20/02/2026 23:59

This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated and experienced senior clinician to join our team on a 12-month fixed term maternity cover basis. Wolverhampton Special Care Dental Service provides high-quality care for a wide range of patients who are unable to access treatment in a General Dental Practice. Services are delivered from three community clinics and a dental mobile unit.

We pride ourselves on being an outward-looking, progressive service with strong links to Learning Disability, Mental Health and other specialist teams enabling the effective delivery of Special Care Dentistry.

The post holder will provide maternity cover and work to improve the dental health of Special Care Dental patients in Wolverhampton, alongside other members of the dental team. This is primarily a clinical role within the community. The post holder will work closely with frail and elderly patients as well as other core patients.

Applicants must be graduates in dentistry and hold current full registration with the General Dental Council. Applicants must also be flexible, as deployment across multiple sites will be required, with travel around Wolverhampton to reach the communities we serve.

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow.

We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards;
The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

Clinical Care

· To contribute to all aspects of care provided by Wolverhampton Special care Dental Service as specified in the service level agreement

· To provide high quality clinical care for patients in special care groups specifically but not restricted to the following groups of patients:

v Learning Disability adults

v Sedation

• To undertake high quality clinical workload within the service appropriate to the nature of patient care the service has agreed to provide.

· To work with the senior dental nurse and statutory and voluntary organisations to identify special care patients services for the provision of treatment for these patients.

· To participate in the development of care pathway for the provision of treatment under General Anaesthesia and the development of services for special needs patients in the appropriate setting

· To participate in the delivery of Comprehensive Dental Care under General Anaesthetic at New Cross Hospital for Special Care patients

· To take referrals and provide advice to clinicians particularly for, but not restricted to special care adults and anxious patients when necessary.

· To accept direct referrals of Special Needs patients from General Dental Practitioners and NHS staff and those from other agencies

· Treatment will be undertaken at fixed and mobile clinics or hospital dental departments located in any part of Wolverhampton together with any related domiciliary care, as determined by the Clinical Director

· To provide…