Salaried Primary Care Dentist - Leadership Fellow

Job summary

This salaried Midlands Dental Leadership Fellow post offers Dentists the opportunity to develop their skills in leadership, management, strategy and project management outside of their normal clinical practice. As well as being able to maintain/enhance your clinical skills without the pressures of UDA targets. On your clinical days you will work in a practice providing general dental care to the local population.

Commencing 1st October 2024 this 12-month position is open to dentists who are fully GDC registered and have or eligible for full inclusion as a Dental Performer on the National Performer List by 4th September 2024.

The NHS, like most developed world health systems, is faced with multiple complex challenges; an aging population, the increasing burden of long-term conditions and comorbidities, on-going health system redesign, and the integration and application of scientific advances - all set against a background of financial constraint and the need to improve productivity alongside quality of care.

The scope of these challenges necessitates that all registrants develop leadership skills, both to improve current service delivery and positively impact future health systems.

During the Fellowship you will have the opportunity to acquire, develop and share knowledge and skills in leadership and will be challenged to think and behave differently in your leadership roles. As part of this you will have access to group coaching sessions and a £4000 study budget.

Main duties of the job

0.6WTE Clinical

On clinical days you will be:

providing routine clinical NHS care, without having UDA targets.

nominally expect to you complete 2000-3000 UDAs during the year.

supporting host practice & others to become future training practices for Dental Foundation Training

Based at Hereford Dental Care, a new practice in the town centre.

Clinical work will include providing a range of treatments including restorative treatment, endodontic and periodontal therapy and oral surgery. All mandatory services on the NHS contract will be provided to the local population. There will also be dedicated slots to see emergency patients requiring urgent care.

There will also be an emphasis on Preventative Dentistry and we are keen to work with local community to achieve this.

0.4WTE Leadership

During the Fellowship you will have the opportunity to:

acquire, develop and share knowledge and skills in leadership

be challenged to think and behave differently in your leadership roles.

led by the NHS England - Midlands, Workforce, Training & Education Dental Team.

opportunities to work on projects relating to education and training.

you will also network with local LDN, MCN chairs and Regional Chief Dental Officer

About us

Central Hereford Dental Care is a brand-new dental practice located in the Centre of Hereford. Harkamel Gill, Ali Visram and Meera Bhadresa are the owners of the practice who are all practicing dentists in the West Midlands. In addition, they are all committed to Postgraduate Training and between them they have a wealth of knowledge having completed qualifications in Restorative Dentistry as well as Endodontics (PG Diploma level). In addition, Mr. Gill is a Trainer for Foundation Dentists and has been active in this role for over 17 years.

It is a modern, paperless practice with the latest equipment including the use of digital radiographs and rotary endodontic equipment. The practice is located centrally and has excellent transport links to areas such as Worcester, Gloucestershire, Bristol and Wales.

In April 2023, NHS England, NHS Digital, and Health Education England merged to create a new, single organisation to lead the NHS in England. This new NHS England is designed to create a simpler, smaller, high performing, organisation that leads the NHS more effectively and is a better place to work. Speaking with one voice to the service.

The new NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose .