Main area: Medical & Dental
Grade: Dental Officer
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Domiciliary Visit Essential Part of the Job)
Job ref: 848-BHC-031-25
Site: Bromley Town, Bromley, Bexley and Greenwich
Salary: Inclusive of HCAS Per annum pro rata
Closing: 12/02/2025 23:59
Interview date: 25/02/2025
Bromley Healthcare, a community interest company, delivers a diverse range of services encompassing community nursing and therapy services catering to individuals across all age groups. Stemming from the community provider unit of NHS Bromley, we boast extensive experience in serving the Bromley populace over many years.
Working at Bromley Healthcare offers a fulfilling experience. Our distinctive service delivery approach and commitment to hearing every employee's voice ensure a gratifying career journey. As a Social Enterprise, we embrace an innovative approach to healthcare delivery, combining the traditional strengths of the NHS with the flexibility to reinvest surpluses into community initiatives.
Employees of Bromley Healthcare whose role may be at risk will receive priority consideration.
Applicants for roles involving driving responsibilities will be required to provide proof of business insurance.
Job overview
Salary is NHS Dental Officer - Salary is dependant on experience - Inclusive of HCAS Per annum pro rata
Permanent Part-time - 22.5 hours per week (Domiciliary Visit Essential Part of the Job) x 2 jobs
We are looking for an enthusiastic and conscientious dentist to join our team. Whether you are an ambitious dentist looking for experience in the community setting before doing specialty training or wanting to move away from the stresses of general practice, this is an ideal place to work.
We provide great support to clinicians so that they can learn and excel in their careers; many of our dental officers have been selected for the highly competitive specialty training programme.
Our Community Dental Service provides dentistry to a wide range of patients including both adults and children requiring either special care dentistry or specialist care. Several clinics are equipped to provide dental treatment with inhalation and/or intravenous sedation, and the service also provides dental treatment under general anaesthesia for children and adult special care patients at the Princess Royal Hospital in Orpington.
Apart from providing care in our clinical settings, we work with a wide range of other organisations to deliver dental treatment to people in their own homes and care homes. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible.
Main duties of the job
Your main area of responsibility will be to provide dentistry for adult and child patients with a wide range of special care needs, both in a domiciliary setting and in the surgery, under local anaesthesia, inhalational sedation and possibly under general anaesthesia in a hospital setting.
As part of the CDS, you will be a team player, able to make treatment plans for, and advise and support other members of the dental team regarding care of patients with special care needs. Experience of working alongside a Dental Therapist and in treatment of patients in a special care dental service setting and using inhalation sedation would be an advantage.
You will have excellent, experienced nursing support and have access to training allowances for Continuing Professional Development.
We are looking for an energetic, flexible and self-motivated person with excellent communication and interpersonal skills as well being IT competent. You will take a role in peer review, clinical governance and clinical audit projects.
This role will have a requirement to make domiciliary visits, so please bear this in mind when applying as this is an essential part of the role.
Working for our organisation
Bromley Healthcare is a community interest company providing a wide range of services including community nursing services such as district nursing, health visiting to specialist nurses, as well as therapy services for children, young people and adults.
Salary is dependent on NHS experience and current banding/pay point.
Excellent benefits package available including various pension schemes, discounted gym membership, cycle to work scheme, discounted electronics, access to EAP, high street discounts, Blue Light Card eligibility, opportunity to apply for low-interest personal loans and an excellent lease car scheme.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To liaise with other Dental Officers/Specialist Dentists/members of the Dental team, General Dental Practitioners and Hospital Consultants as necessary and promote the Service with professional employees and other agencies.
Deliver dental treatment and preventive care and education to priority groups including those with:
* Dental anxiety and behaviour management issues
* Medical complexity
* Learning disability
* Limitations of personal mobility
* Other physical disability
* Relevant mental health issues
* Plus Size needs
* Other vulnerabilities, e.g. Looked After Children
Treatment under sedation or general anaesthesia, and epidemiological field work and domiciliary care are of particular significance as a member of the Special Care Dental Service.
Management of, in a clinical capacity, dental therapists/hygienists/dental nurses as required.
Produce and maintain accurate patient records, and complete appropriate NHS forms (e.g., FP17 forms). Collect and receipt patients’ charges in accordance with NHS Regulations and ensure safe keeping of monies through banking in accordance with Bromley Healthcare Policies and Procedures. Computer systems will be involved with these processes.
Produce and maintain accurate records of epidemiological field work and dental screening delivered and dental care provided. Paper and computer systems will be involved.
Patient’s dental care needs accurately assessed and appropriate dental treatment and preventive care delivered.
Clinical sessions are booked efficiently and activity recorded accurately to the appropriate standard. Referrals were assessed and treatment commenced within a timely manner.
Consolidate clinical skills following Foundation training and consolidating skills treating additional needs patients and those with an urgent dental need.
Person specification
Qualification
* Vocational Training/Dental foundation training
* Hold a full NHS Primary Dental Care Performer number
* Full registration with the General Dental Council
* Other professional memberships (Royal Colleges)
Experience
* Up to date clinical knowledge of dentistry in the UK
* Thorough knowledge of medical conditions relevant to the practice of special care dentistry
* Understanding of the current issues facing dental services
* Understanding of the issues around consent
* Comprehensive understanding of clinical governance
* Understanding of the issues around confidentiality
* Experience in using Dental Electronic Patient Software.
* Supervision of clinical staff
* Experience in treating patients under general anaesthesia or sedation
* Experience of providing treatment under inhalation sedation
* Experience of providing treatment under intravenous sedation
Skills
* Current UK drivers’ license with reliable access to own car for work purposes.
* Able to communicate at all levels in writing and verbally
* Good command of written and spoken English
* Ability to absorb Health and Departmental standards and procedures, including Health & Safety at Work regulations
* Record of CPD
* Understanding of own limitations and development needs
* Able to work to protocols
Knowledge
* Knowledge of special care dentistry and paediatric dentistry in the delivery of dental care
* Knowledge of GDC standards
* Awareness of public health issues
* Awareness of issues relating to ethnic minorities
We are dedicated to caring for our service users and their loved ones, as well as ensuring the wellbeing of our colleagues. That's why we strongly encourage all colleagues to avail themselves of the Coronavirus vaccination.
To get a sense of what it's like to work with Bromley Healthcare, you can visit our YouTube channel at the following link: YouTube Channel.
Salary is determined by NHS experience and current banding/pay point. External applicants will begin at the entry point of the salary scale in line with NHS terms and conditions.
At Bromley Healthcare, we are fully committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where all colleagues feel supported, nurtured, and celebrated. Discrimination of any protected characteristic is not tolerated. Diversity and inclusion are key components of our People Strategy, as an equal opportunities employer, we are particularly eager to enhance Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) representation across Bromley Healthcare, especially at senior levels.
We welcome applicants with a disability. We are able to support reasonable adjustments throughout the interview process, please let us know if you require any.
We understand the importance of balancing work and life, so we offer our staff a variety of flexible working options from day one. These include:
* Compressed hours
* Part-time
* Job shares
We encourage you to discuss this with your hiring manager, who will take your individual circumstances into account alongside the service needs.
We eagerly anticipate welcoming you to a rewarding career with Bromley Healthcare. Please note that all offers of new employment with Bromley Healthcare are subject to a six-month probationary period.
Bromley Healthcare CIC is an NHS community provider and an integral part of the NHS family. However, we pride ourselves on being different; as a co-owned social enterprise, Bromley Healthcare CIC is owned by its employees. This ensures that our staff remain under NHS Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions and are members of the NHS pension scheme (provided they are eligible). If not, we offer the Nest or Scottish Widows pension schemes.
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* The Trust utilizes the TRAC systems recruitment platform to administer all stages of the recruitment process, meaning that shortlisting information will not be communicated via NHS Jobs.
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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.
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