Job summary
The Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC), based at HMS Nelson, Portsmouth has an exciting opportunity for a Civilian Dental Practitioner (CDP) available. We offer an inclusive working environment with substantial benefits!
We are looking for a well organised and adaptable Dental Practitioner who is also dedicated to providing excellent services to entitled personnel.
This is a full time position offering 37 hours per week. Requests to work flexibly and/or part time will be considered, taking into account business needs.
Please note the salary will be pro-rata where part time hours are undertaken.
Benefits include
- Access to Civil Service Pension
Annual Retention Fee with the General Dental Council is reimbursed
Free on site parking
Reduced rate access to gym
On-site coffee shop
Weekly laundry service for issued clinical scrubs
On-site shop
Main duties of the job
You as the successful post holder will be responsible for the
Line Management of a Civilian Dental Hygienist and Civilian Dental Nurses,
completing their respective mid and end of year reports, approving annual
leave and other administrative duties to support staff members in their
roles within the department aswell as providing dental care for Service personnel.
You will be spending 2 hours per week conducting non- clinical activities including practice meetings, training, and personal
administration. The remainder of the contracted hours are to be utilised to
provide clinical outputs and work should be directed towards improving and maintaining the dental health
and operational fitness of personnel for whom you are responsible.
About us
Our success depends on our people, our Whole Force regular and reservist military, civil servants and contractors, all working as one, working together seamlessly to deliver for us.
Our civil servants are a central part of this Whole Force, developing strategy, making policy, supporting ministerial decision-making and Parliamentary processes. In fact, with over 2,000 different roles working across 650 sites around the world, now really is an excellent time to join one of the largest, most exciting departments in government.
The Ministry of Defence is committed to attracting and retaining people from across the full range of backgrounds and enabling flexible ways of working as the norm. We offer maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks full pay followed by 13 weeks of statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, and paternity leave of 2 weeks full pay.
In return, you can expect a department that helps you learn and develop that recognises your expertise and contribution, both as an individual and part of a team.
If you've ever wanted to do more, see more, go further or be better, we have roles in more professions and vocations than ever before. Let's see where your future will take you, together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Duties and responsibilities for the role include but are not limited to:
- Inspecting all personnel for whom they are responsible at intervals in accordance with The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines and providing follow up treatment as required.
- Providing an occupational oral health
assessment, being fully conversant with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
Dental Fitness categorisation and dental input into the Joint Medical
Employment Standard for Service personnel.
- Ensuring that contemporaneous notes are recorded on individuals integrated electronic healthcare records for all episodes of care.
- Ensuring that surgery management, documentation including consumable stores, the safe custody of personal sensitive data and the maintenance of equipment is kept to a high standard at all times.
- Onward referral of personnel to enhanced practitioners, specialists or consultants for treatment as appropriate.
For the full list of job duties and responsibilities, please see the attached job description and person specification.
Selection Process Details
The selection at sift stage will be based on your CV/ application. At interview, you will be tested against the following Behaviours:
- Leadership
- Changing and Improving
- Communicating and Influencing
- Developing Self and Others
- Managing a Quality Service
To be eligible to be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.
Additional Information
The sift will be completed within 5 working days of the vacancy closing date. Interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed.
There will be no reimbursement for any travel expenses for the interview.
Requests to work flexibly and/or part time will be considered, taking into account business needs.
Please note the salary will be pro-rata where part time hours are undertaken.
All employees joining Ministry of Defence who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a 6-month probation period (unless otherwise advised) effective from the employment start date. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.
Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications and memberships in your CV and that you have saved it, making sure that any reference to your personal details have been removed from your CV prior to submitting your application.
Please see the link to our Youtube channel for advice preparing your best responses with some hints and tips on answering behaviour based questions. Hints and tips such as: Your behaviours can be based on situations from work, volunteering or home; match your situation to the behaviour requested and how to use your 250-word limit.
Defence Medical Services - YouTube
Please be advised that you will need to copy and paste the link in to your browser.
If found successful for this position, you will be required to provide evidence of your immunity to Hepatitis B. Failure to provide evidence of your immunity may result in the offer of employment being withdrawn.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.
To be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.
We encourage all our employees and prospective ones to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 subject to any exemptions that may apply. Please see the attached further information document for full details.
As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category and we will not sponsor a visa. It is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points based system.
Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact dbscivpers-sgdmsresourcingteam@mod.gov.uk.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Duties and responsibilities for the role include but are not limited to:
- Inspecting all personnel for whom they are responsible at intervals in accordance with The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines and providing follow up treatment as required.
- Providing an occupational oral health
assessment, being fully conversant with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
Dental Fitness categorisation and dental input into the Joint Medical
Employment Standard for Service personnel.
- Ensuring that contemporaneous notes are recorded on individuals integrated electronic healthcare records for all episodes of care.
- Ensuring that surgery management, documentation including consumable stores, the safe custody of personal sensitive data and the maintenance of equipment is kept to a high standard at all times.
- Onward referral of personnel to enhanced practitioners, specialists or consultants for treatment as appropriate.
For the full list of job duties and responsibilities, please see the attached job description and person specification.
Selection Process Details
The selection at sift stage will be based on your CV/ application. At interview, you will be tested against the following Behaviours:
- Leadership
- Changing and Improving
- Communicating and Influencing
- Developing Self and Others
- Managing a Quality Service
To be eligible to be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.
Additional Information
The sift will be completed within 5 working days of the vacancy closing date. Interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed.
There will be no reimbursement for any travel expenses for the interview.
Requests to work flexibly and/or part time will be considered, taking into account business needs.
Please note the salary will be pro-rata where part time hours are undertaken.
All employees joining Ministry of Defence who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a 6-month probation period (unless otherwise advised) effective from the employment start date. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.
Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications and memberships in your CV and that you have saved it, making sure that any reference to your personal details have been removed from your CV prior to submitting your application.
Please see the link to our Youtube channel for advice preparing your best responses with some hints and tips on answering behaviour based questions. Hints and tips such as: Your behaviours can be based on situations from work, volunteering or home; match your situation to the behaviour requested and how to use your 250-word limit.
Defence Medical Services - YouTube
Please be advised that you will need to copy and paste the link in to your browser.
If found successful for this position, you will be required to provide evidence of your immunity to Hepatitis B. Failure to provide evidence of your immunity may result in the offer of employment being withdrawn.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.
To be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.
We encourage all our employees and prospective ones to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 subject to any exemptions that may apply. Please see the attached further information document for full details.
As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category and we will not sponsor a visa. It is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points based system.
Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact dbscivpers-sgdmsresourcingteam@mod.gov.uk.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Fully registered with the General Dental Council without conditions.
- Either undertaken Foundation Dentist Training Certified completion of Dental Foundation Training in the UK (or have qualified before foundation training became compulsory in the National Health Service).
- Or Have evidence of at least 24 months full-time postgraduate clinical experience derived in a primary dental care setting or have qualified before foundation training became compulsory in the NHS.
Experience
Essential
- To ensure patient safety, applicants are required to have maintain evidence of clinical currency, specifically a minimum of 2 clinical sessions per week over the last 15 months.
Provide a CV
Essential
- Please copy and paste your full CV as your response to this question- you will not be able to upload your CV as an attachment.
- Please ensure to refer to the essential criteria where applicable as your application may be rejected should insufficient information to shortlist be included.
- Please use double spacing where possible
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Fully registered with the General Dental Council without conditions.
- Either undertaken Foundation Dentist Training Certified completion of Dental Foundation Training in the UK (or have qualified before foundation training became compulsory in the National Health Service).
- Or Have evidence of at least 24 months full-time postgraduate clinical experience derived in a primary dental care setting or have qualified before foundation training became compulsory in the NHS.
Experience
Essential
- To ensure patient safety, applicants are required to have maintain evidence of clinical currency, specifically a minimum of 2 clinical sessions per week over the last 15 months.
Provide a CV
Essential
- Please copy and paste your full CV as your response to this question- you will not be able to upload your CV as an attachment.
- Please ensure to refer to the essential criteria where applicable as your application may be rejected should insufficient information to shortlist be included.
- Please use double spacing where possible
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
