Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services)

MOD Dentist

The closing date is 19 June 2025

Job summary

Are you looking to work in a modern, patient-focused dental practice that prioritises quality care and professional development? At Defence Primary Healthcare, we are intent on providing an excellent service in a friendly and encouraging environment.

When it comes to delivering outstanding patient care, our motivated MOD Dentists make all the difference. We know just how valuable your skills are, so come join the wonderful team at dental centre Warminster and get ready to make a positive impact!

This role is a permanent part-time position offering 37 hours per week, requests to work part-time or job share will be considered, taking into accounts business needs, and reviewed annually.

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

Here at Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC), we are an inclusive and dedicated organisation working to provide excellent care to our entitled personnel.

Our MOD Dentists aim is to maximise the deployability of the Population at Risk, providing clinical outputs, improving, and managing the dental health and operational fitness of service personnel for whom they are responsible for.

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

29 May 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£57,853 to £95,587 a year Per annum, pro-rata for part time. *Pay award pending

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Job share

Reference number

K0003-25-0250

Job locations

DET 3 Dental GP

Warminster TRG Gen

Warminster

BA12 0DJ

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 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 safe3 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

Attention must be given to the attached job description/Terms of Reference and person specification prior to applying, which outlines the role requirements in further detail.

Selection Process:

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/success-profiles), 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 your CV, max 3 pages.

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 10 working days of the vacancy closing date. Interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed.

Additional Information

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

Please note that the salary will be pro-rata where part-time hours are undertaken.

Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.

To be eligible to be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.

When choosing your Behaviour/Technical Skills examples, please make sure you use real life scenarios that relate to your own experiences. Whilst technology may help to enhance your written submission, presenting the ideas of others or those generated by technology, could result in your application being rejected.

This role may hold Line management responsibilities, this will be discussed and decided on once in post.

All employees joining MoD 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 DPSS or SC depending on Dental Centres location.

The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-code/the-civil-service-code.

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/watch?v=YEpdNWKQSRI

If 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.

There is no requirement to deploy as this is met by our uniformed personnel, however, you will form the continuity of care required by our patients when in United Kingdom base location.

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 employment offer withdrawn.

If successful and called forward for interview please note that the set time and date may not be open for change, however, we will always help where we can.

DPHC delivers a clinical service in accordance with MoD policies and must adhere to the European Working Time Directive (EWTD).

The MoD 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 MoD should be aware of this policy.

For details on our complaints procedure, please see the Important Information document attached.

This vacancy is part of the A Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans

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.