Civilian Dental Practitioner

Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services)

The closing date is 10 October 2024

Job summary

Welcome to Defence Primary Healthcare, we are a dedicated and inclusive organisation working hard to provide excellent care to our entitled personnel.

Are you looking for a captivating role working alongside the military, a role that offers great benefits and opportunities for furthering your own career development as well as being part of an excellent team!

We have a great opportunity for an enthusiastic, committed, and professional Civilian Dental Practitioner (CDP) to join our Primary Health Care team here at Dental centre Det 3 Dental Gp, Warminster Trg Cent, Warminster BA12 0DJ.

This role is a permanent position consisting of 37 hours per week,requests to work part-time or job share will be considered, taking into accounts business needs, and the salary will be pro-rata where part-time hours are undertaken.

Benefits

General Dental Council (GDC) Annual Fees are currently reimbursed
Paid Annual Leave (Pro Rata for part time)!
A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
On-Call Allowance
Access to pension scheme
Regional training days/Peer Review Days with free transport
Continuous professional development (CPD) training supplied
Discounted fee to access camp fitness facilities
Free laundry of clinical wear & Free Clinical footwear
We offer maternity, adoption, or shared parental leave
Free parking

Main duties of the job

Overall, your aim is to maximise the deployability of the Population at Risk for whom you are responsible.

A CDP is responsible for providing clinical outputs, improving, and managing the dental health and operational fitness of service personnel.

Within your contracted 37 weekly hours, 2 hours may be attributed to nonclinical activities including practice meetings, training, and personal administration. The remainder of the contracted hours are to be utilised to provide clinical outputs and work will 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.

Date posted

19 September 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£54,578 to £90,176 a year (pro rata for part-time)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Job share

Reference number

K0003-24-0198

Job locations

Det 3 Dental GP

Warminster Trg Cen.

Warminster

Wiltshire

BA12 0DJ

Job description

Job responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities of the role include, but are not limited to:

Inspecting all personnel for whom they are responsible at intervals in line with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines and providing follow up treatment as required.

Work collaboratively with professional colleagues and in the best interest of patients.

Ensuring that surgery management, documentation including consumable stores, the safe custody of personal sensitive data and the maintenance of equipment is always kept to a high standard.

Onward referral of personnel to enhanced practitioners, specialists, or consultants for treatment as appropriate

Please pay particular attention to the attached job description/Terms of Reference and person specification prior to applying, which outlines the role requirements in further detail.

Selection Process Details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (in links), and the selection at sift stage will be based on your CV application, once copied and pasted onto your application. Ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications, and memberships in the CV section of the application form.

Show the sift team why YOU are the one to hire! Remember - make sure no personal details are included.

At interview, you will be evaluated against the following Behaviours:

Changing and improving
Communicating and influencing
Developing Self and Others
Managing a Quality Service
Delivering at Pace

The sift will be completed within 5 working days of the vacancy closing date. Interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed.

Please copy and paste the following link to our YouTube channel for on 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:

https://www.youtube.com/@DMS_MilMed

If found successful for this position, you will be required to provide evidence of your immunity to Hepatitis B. Please note that evidence of your vaccination is not a proof of your immunity, but your serology levels will be required. Failure to provide sufficient evidence may result in the offer of employment being withdrawn.

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

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.

There will be no reimbursement for any travel expenses for the interview.

Due to COVID 19, there is now a requirement for dental clinical staff to be fit tested for a FFP3 mask, which has to be worn when managing a patient who is undergoing an aerosol generating procedure (AGP) the successful candidate will be fit tested prior to commencing employment.

The successful applicant will have contact with patients and service users. In-line with the NHS England approach, MOD is in the process of making full vaccination a condition of deployment for its healthcare workers employed across the UK. In order to comply with our duty of care, we require our staff to have the COVID vaccine and we will ask for proof of vaccination status during the recruitment process. Please see the attached further information document for full details.

Access to the CS pension scheme is available to the successful candidate.

There is no requirement to deploy as this is met by our uniformed personnel, but you will form the continuity of care required by our patients when based at home.

The post does NOT offer relocation expenses (move of home, excess fares or temporary transfer). Non Standard move applicants will be eligible for the full package, subject to eligibility.

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.

This vacancy is part of the A Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative, Making the Civil Service a Great Place to Work for Veterans - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

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.

The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments.

For our complaints procedure, please refer to the Important Information document attached.