Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services)
Welcome to Defence Primary Healthcare, we are a dedicated and inclusive organisation working hard to provide excellent care to our entitled personnel.
Are you looking for a captivating role working alongside the military, a role that offers great benefits and opportunities for furthering your own career development as well as being part of an excellent team!
We have a great opportunity for an enthusiastic, committed, and professional Civilian Dental Practitioner (CDP) to join our Primary Health Care team here at Dental centre Det 3 Dental Gp, Warminster Trg Cent, Warminster BA12 0DJ.
This role is a permanent position consisting of 37 hours per week; requests to work part-time or job share will be considered, taking into account business needs, and the salary will be pro-rata where part-time hours are undertaken.
* General Dental Council (GDC) Annual Fees are currently reimbursed
* Paid Annual Leave (Pro Rata for part-time)
* A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
* On-Call Allowance
* Access to pension scheme
* Regional training days/Peer Review Days with free transport
* Discounted fee to access camp fitness facilities
* Free laundry of clinical wear & Free Clinical footwear
* We offer maternity, adoption, or shared parental leave
* Free parking
Main duties of the job
Overall, your aim is to maximise the deployability of the Population at Risk for whom you are responsible.
A CDP is responsible for providing clinical outputs, improving, and managing the dental health and operational fitness of service personnel.
Within your contracted 37 weekly hours, 2 hours may be attributed to non-clinical activities including practice meetings, training, and personal administration. The remainder of the contracted hours are to be utilised to provide clinical outputs and work will be directed towards improving and maintaining the dental health and operational fitness of personnel for whom you are responsible.
Job responsibilities
The duties and responsibilities of the role include, but are not limited to:
* Inspecting all personnel for whom they are responsible at intervals in line with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines and providing follow-up treatment as required.
* Work collaboratively with professional colleagues and in the best interest of patients.
* Ensuring that surgery management, documentation including consumable stores, the safe custody of personal sensitive data and the maintenance of equipment is always kept to a high standard.
* Onward referral of personnel to enhanced practitioners, specialists, or consultants for treatment as appropriate.
Please pay particular attention to the attached job description/Terms of Reference and person specification prior to applying, which outlines the role requirements in further detail.
Selection Process Details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and the selection at sift stage will be based on your CV application, once copied and pasted onto your application. Ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications, and memberships in the CV section of the application form.
Show the sift team why YOU are the one to hire! Remember - make sure no personal details are included.
At interview, you will be evaluated against the following Behaviours:
* Changing and improving
* Communicating and influencing
* Developing Self and Others
The sift will be completed within 5 working days of the vacancy closing date. Interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed.
If found successful for this position, you will be required to provide evidence of your immunity to Hepatitis B. Please note that evidence of your vaccination is not proof of your immunity, but your serology levels will be required. Failure to provide sufficient evidence may result in the offer of employment being withdrawn.
Person Specification
Registrations and Memberships
* Full registration with the General Dental Council (GDC) without conditions.
Qualifications
* Have undertaken Foundation Dentist Training (or have qualified before foundation training became compulsory in the National Health Service).
* To ensure patient safety, applicants are required to have maintained evidence of clinical currency undertaking operative primary dental care, specifically a minimum of 2 clinical sessions per week over the last 15 months.
* Please provide your membership registration number.
* You are required to be registered with the relevant professional body, as detailed in the advert, prior to submitting your application.
* Your application will not progress should you fail to provide a valid membership registration number.
Additional Criteria
* A background in military dentistry provision and primary dental care.
* A valid United Kingdom driving license, this is to enable travelling to and working from other local regional dental centres if requested.
* Evidence of currency with General Dental Council Continuous Professional Development requirements.
* Being prepared to contribute to the development of staff skills and knowledge.
* Confidence in utilising Information Technology.
* Participate fully in the Civilian Dental Practitioners performance management and the Clinical Quality Assurance & Appraisal processes.
* Be ready to cover On-Call out of hours duties as part of a regional team, if required.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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 previous criminal convictions.
Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services)
£54,578 to £90,176 a year (pro rata for part-time)
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