Job summary
- Main area
- Dental
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 411-SUR-25-7302739
- Employer
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Consultant
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
- Great flexible working opportunities
- Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Extensive staff health and well-being programmes
Job overview
Applications are invited for this full-time Consultant post based at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital and Mersey Care Community Dental Service.
This new post will provide service delivery and patient care for medically compromised children as part of a team of Paediatric Dentists, Orthodontists and Maxillo-Facial Surgeons at Alder Hey and to provide service delivery and patient care to the paediatric patients within the Merseyside Dental Community locality.
Applicants must be fully registered with the General Dental Council and be on the Specialist List in Paediatric Dentistry, and have passed the Fellowship in Paediatric Dentistry (or within six months of eligibility for inclusion).
Main duties of the job
The Consultant in Paediatric Dentistry will join the current team of 4 part-time consultants in Paediatric Dentistry in the Department, providing treatment for craniofacial and medically compromised children. The post holder will contribute to the strategic development of the Paediatric Dental Service, liaising with other colleagues as required. Clinical services will be provided with a high level of expertise in diagnosis, treatment planning and treatment of the dental needs of children. The post holder will also be responsible for the collection and co-ordination of appropriate audit records.
Working for our organisation
As one of Europe’s biggest and busiest children’s hospitals, at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, we treat everything from common illnesses to highly complex and specialist conditions. In addition to our main hospital site, we offer paediatric services at a number of community sites and hold local clinics across Merseyside, Cumbria, Shropshire, Wales and the Isle of Man. We also provide specialist inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs in our recently relocated and newly opened state of the art facility.
Alder Hey has a thriving research portfolio and leads research into children’s medicines, infection, inflammation and oncology. We are becoming recognised as one of the world’s leaders in children’s healthcare and research. We contribute to public health, lead cutting-edge research and teach the next generation of children’s specialists. Alongside this is our Innovation Hub, a dedicated space where clinicians and industries can come together to create new products and technologies.
We know that a children’s hospital is different and that our job is more than just treating an illness. To us, every child is an individual. As well as giving them the very best care, we set out to make them feel happy, safe and confident as they play, learn and grow. At Alder Hey we are here to look after a child and their family and that includes mums, dads, brothers and sisters.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The consultant role would include, but not be limited to:
- Direct Clinical Care:
- Assessing and treating paediatric dental patients referred into the service who require consultant level care when assessed against agreed acceptance criteria. This may involve treatment under inhalation sedation
- Providing treatment under general anaesthesia. This will initially consist of exodontia only but there is an intention that the consultant will be involved in the development of a paediatric comprehensive care GA service within Mersey Care.
Consultation and Collaboration:
- Providing consultant support to other dental colleagues within Mersey Care, offering second opinions and shared care as appropriate.
- Collaborating with Mersey Care adult dental special care colleagues with MDT opportunities to support the transition of patients from paediatric to adult services
Management and Leadership:
- The consultant would chair the Mersey Care Paediatric Assessors’ meetings held for all paediatric dentists twice a year (March and October).
- The consultant would represent Mersey Care at Cheshire and Merseyside Paediatric Managed Clinical Network meetings and be expected to contribute to wider local and regional initiatives.
- The consultant would be a member of the Mersey Care Dental Clinical Policy Group with an opportunity to influence and drive paediatric dental strategy within the service
Research and Teaching:
- Opportunities to support trainees and undertake appropriate research
Person specification
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Essential criteria
- BDS or equivalent
- Membership in Paediatric Dentistry, or equivalent
- ISFE in Paediatric Dentistry, or equivalent, before commencing Consultant post.
- Effective participation in audit in Paediatric Dentistry
- Ability to appraise scientific literature critically
Desirable criteria
- Postgraduate qualification or equivalent (PhD, MPhil or MSc)
- Experience of postgraduate and undergraduate teaching and training at an appropriate level
- Publications in peer reviewed dental journals
- Research experience, relating to paediatric dentistry
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
- Sharon Lee
- Job title
- Clinical Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Matthew Upton, Acting Head of Performance
Helen Sayer, Dental Clinical Director, Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
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