Job overview

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated ambitious individual to join our well integrated team to support us with our treatment and education services in Paediatric Dentistry. We offer excellent clinical facilities in our dedicated Paediatric Dentistry Department; which consists of bays and surgeries.  All surgeries have the facility to undertake inhalational sedation. The post is available from 1st September 2025 and is a 12 month locum position.

You will be an experienced Dental Surgeon with an enthusiasm to communicate your own knowledge and experience to students and patients.  You will have been fully registered with the GDC for at least three years and have experience of managing paediatric dental patients. Candidates should have experience of treating patients with inhalation sedation.  You will be offered a structured induction and support with the opportunity for further educational development.  You will assume responsibility for the planning, co-ordination and delivery of specific components of service and teaching in partnership with clinical and academic colleagues. 

In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Main duties of the job

The primary aim of the 1.0 WTE Locum Specialty Doctor in Paediatric Dentistry post is to join the existing well-integrated team to help support a consultant lead service at tertiary level to the population of the North-East and beyond. This post is configured to support the clinical activities of the specialty. The successful applicant will help to provide a comprehensive diagnostic, treatment and advisory service in Paediatric Dentistry based within the Trust at the Dental Hospital, Freeman Hospital and Great North Children’s Hospital.  Day case and access to in-patient operating facilities are available.  The successful applicant will contribute to provision of the Paediatric Dental Casualty Service and will be involved with both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and supervision.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: : Dr Nichola Lush (Clinical Specialty Lead) on 0191 2821665, or via email at [email protected] or Dr G Walton, Clinical Director on 0191 2823216 via e-mail at [email protected] .

Working for our organisation

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.