Job summary
- Main area
- Community Dentistry
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Salaried Dentist - C
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 4 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 040-CD09.2025
- Employer
- Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Grange University Hospital
- Town
- Cwmbran
- Salary
- £98,306 - £112,974 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Director and Dental Director In Community Dental Service
NHS Medical & Dental: Salaried Dentist - C
We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.
Please let us know if you have any particular requirements to enable you to participate in the application and selection process. We will be pleased to discuss any reasonable adjustments needed. Please either contact the recruiting manager named in the job advert or alternatively contact the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board recruitment team on 01495 745805 option 3.
If you are successful at interview for this post, you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore, we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process.
Job overview
ABUHB is looking for a leader with extensive experience in a senior position in the Community Dental Service (CDS), who is willing to commit to achieve results and meet deadlines, setting high standards and motivated to achieve them. They will provide clinical leadership to all staff in the (CDS) Directorate and mange the service and its staff ensuring the delivery of service programmes, contributing towards the Quality and Clinical governance agenda and together with the Medical Director and Integrated Oral and Dental Services Group (IOHG) helping develop and implement the operational plans of the CDS service.
The successful candidate will provide strategic, clinical and professional leadership for development of oral health services across primary care and community services. As a key member of the Primary Care and Community Division, they will work across the Health Board to deliver the vision for integrated oral Health Services developing and delivering innovative, high-quality services to improve patient care in line with the Health Board strategy.
Benefits of working for CDS in ABUHB in South Wales
- Support of a full time Community Dental Manager
- Working at a newly built six surgery dental clinic
- Paid study leave
- Paid annual leave - 34 days plus bank holidays
- Lease car scheme
Main duties of the job
Provide a range of clinical duties relevant to this role, leading on triage and managing clinical referrals.
Responsible for the Community Dental Service operational implementation of policy and strategic planning.
Operational management of multiple sites and staff groups, with line management for Senior CDS staff.
Responsible for and conduct appraisals and job plans of CDS staff.
Working for our organisation
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your speciality or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Well-being Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see Job Description and person specification for further information and main responsibilities in TRAC.
This position involves Regulated Activity with children and adults as defined by the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act (amended by the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012) and the following checks will be undertaken following any conditional offer:
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Enhanced check with barred list information, including
- an adults and children’s barred list check
Applicants must hold or be eligible to hold full registration and a licence to practice with the GDC
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Bachelor in Dental Surgery or equivalent
- • Post graduate qualification MSc or equivalent, relevant clinical discipline, Dental Public Health and/or research
- • Health service management leadership qualification.
- • Actively working as a senior practitioner in a Primary Care/Community setting with full GDC registration.
Desirable criteria
- • Membership of a professional organisation/learned society relating to the clinical specialist/specialised area of work
- • Clinical Education/Teaching qualification
- • GDC Specialist List Registration in speciality relevant to clinical practice across all service areas.
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Extensive experience in Senior position in CDS or a health-related environment
- • Operational management of dental teams
- • Teaching, training, supervision/mentorship of other grades of staff and/or students
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of Direct Access in relation to DCP’s
- • Dental Public Health experience/involvement in national public health initiatives at a Senior level
- • Organisation of Sedation and or GA service
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Steve Woolley
- Job title
- Consultant in Special Care Dentistry
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01633 623728
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