Dental Officer
Primary Care Careers
The closing date is 27 October 2024
Job summary
Do you want to make a real difference in a socially minded, values driven organisation? We are an award-winning employee owned social enterprise, providing high quality community dental services across east and central England.
Community Dental Services are recruiting for an experienced dental officer to be based either at their Lowestoft Dental Clinic full-time, or split between Lowestoft and Siskin Dental Centre in Norwich (TBC). This is a full time, permanent position which will involve working at other locations to support the client group, including domiciliary care and local hospitals.
We are excited to be able to offer a £13,000 employment incentive. This fantastic offer can be utilised for relocation, salary top up, training, registration fees and many other personal benefits. We are happy to negotiate with the right candidate to come to a mutual agreement on how this incentive is spent.
Main duties of the job
- Deliver dental care and advice to patients and their carers from community groups, including patients with additional needs, who are clients of Community Dental Services.
- Preventive care and advice.
- Dental treatment.
- Care under sedation and general anaesthesia, and epidemiological field work.
Community Dental Services encourages postgraduate education and development. Mentorship and training will be provided to support this if required.
About us
We are a referral only dental service providing community dental care and oral health improvement across much of the East of England and the Midlands.
What do we offer?
- 32 days holiday plus bank holidays.
- Dentally led, patient focused working environment that is not constrained by UDA targets.
- Access to the NHS Practitioners Scheme.
- Opportunity to develop your skills and career with funded internal and external mandatory training, postgraduate qualifications, PgC, PgDip, Msc. Build your portfolio for tier 2 or speciality training.
- Support with training for your wider professional development.
- Paid indemnity.
- Uniforms provided.
- Become a shareholder and have a say in how our organisation is run at all levels.
- Opportunity to play a key part in local care initiatives.
Date posted
22 October 2024
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
£50,512 to £75,767 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
8335
Job locations
Whapload Road
Lowestoft
Suffolk
NR32 1UR
Employer details
Employer name
Primary Care Careers
Address
Whapload Road
Lowestoft
Suffolk
NR32 1UR
Employer's website
https://www.eoeprimarycarecareers.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)