Job summary
- Main area
- Oral Surgery
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent: 10 PA Contract
- Hours
- 10 sessions per week (Full time)
- Job ref
- 229-SD-GT-7236191
- Employer
- Wye Valley NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hereford County Hospital
- Town
- Hereford
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/06/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 14/08/2025
Employer heading

Consultant Oral Surgeon
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Job overview
Wye Valley Trust are looking to appoint a Consultant Oral Surgeon. This is a full time post and the timetable covers both working at the Trust within Oral Surgery and the Dental Access Centre.
We seek a colleague to join our established Consultant Oral Surgeon who can demonstrate their ability to work as part of our efficient and cohesive multidisciplinary team and interact well with consultant colleagues, local GPs and dentists. There is no on-call commitment attached to this job.
The department is based within the Surgical Division, which comprises the Departments of: ENT, Orthopaedics, Maxillofacial Surgery, Orthodontics and Ophthalmology. The Trust has a team providing orthodontics, oral
surgery, restorative and special care dentistry as part of dental and surgical MDT care. Clinical support staff including nursing and administration staff numbers are in place to support this post.
If you have any enquiries or would like to plan a visit to the department, please contact Liz Williams -General Manager, Head, Neck & Orthopaedics on [email protected].
Interview date - 14th August 2025
Main duties of the job
The postholder will build and utilise governance links beyond the organization, for example Worcester Acute Maxillo-Facial Dept and Oral
Surgery at Birmingham Dental Hospital to ensure high quality care is provided to patients and will collaborate with and support the provision of oral surgery in primary care.
The appointee will join the Dental Specialties Team as a Consultant Oral Surgeon, and will be responsible for the care of the oral surgery patients. The successful candidate will be required to undertake managerial duties
associated with the care of their patients and the running of the department and will be expected to participate in all facets of departmental activity.
Working for our organisation
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
Worcestershire is our neighbouring county. The post holder will be required to travel between sites.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.
More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”
Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a more detailed description, please review the attached job description and person specification or contact the department as listed below.
Person specification
Professional Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Entry on GDC Oral Surgery specialist register via CCT (proposed date must be within 6 months), CESR or European Community Rights
- NHS Performer number
- Full GDC registration with a licence to practise.
Desirable criteria
- FDS (Oral Surgery) or equivalent
- Membership in Oral Surgery (MOralSurg) or equivalent
- Membership of the Faculty of Dental Surgeons (MFDS) or equivalent
Clinical Experiance
Essential criteria
- Broad range of experience General and Paediatric Oral Surgery including chronic facial pain
- Training and experience in use of Sedation as part of oral surgery clinical practice.
Desirable criteria
- Experience in diagnostic and practical restorative dentistry
- Demonstrable Sub Specialty interest e.g. management of medically compromised patient, special care, chronic facial pain
Clinical Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable skills and experience of Oral Surgery at level suitable of consultant level post CCST
- Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
Clinical Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and use of evidence based practice
Desirable criteria
- • Demonstrable subspecialty interest in the management of special care patient, medically compromised both in-patient and outpatient settings
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Mike Giffen
- Job title
- Consultant Oral Surgeon
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01432 355444
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