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Dental OfficerHampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust • Gosport, United Kingdom
Dental Officer

Dental Officer

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust • Gosport, United Kingdom
10 hours ago
Job type
  • Full-time
  • Temporary
Job description
Job summary
We are offering a fantastic opportunity for two Dentists to join a well-established and one of the largest Special Care Dental Services in Hampshire and the IOW. This opportunity is for a dynamic and enthusiastic NHS dentist who is looking to develop their skills and work within a team environment. The posts are 1 year Fixed Term to cover rotational gaps, one role is based in our East clinic for 5 days, one role based in our North area clinic in Andover for 3 days and 2 days at the Dental Academy in Portsmouth.

This is a service who has excellent feedback, within a very supportive environment and excellent facilities with a great opportunity to learn new skills.
  • Fully assigned diary with strong patient list
  • Immediate Start
  • Confident in delivering general NHS Dentistry
  • Excellent opportunities to upskill in inhalation sedation, domiciliary, general anaesthetics and intravenous sedation
  • Career opportunities and development across the practice with great team support
  • Work alongside fully qualified and experienced dental nurses and dental therapist
  • Ongoing training available with access to a platform of training to help boost your clinical skills
  • You will need to be GDC registered and have an active performer number

Main duties of the job
You would be delivering routine and urgent dental care to patients, adults and children who are unable to access care in the General Dental Services due to their additional needs. These might include challenging medical conditions, physical disability, mental disability, learning difficulties, special dental conditions, social and behavioural limitations, domiciliary dental needs, anxiety management and bariatric care.

We have
  • Well established surgeries with 13 clinics across Hampshire and the IOW
  • 5 sites for general anaesthetics across Hampshire and the IOW
  • Good reputation
  • A caring, stress free and calm environment where our dedicated team of dental professionals can offer the best possible care for patients
  • Excellent patient feedback
  • Patient list is loyal and well maintained
  • Friendly, professional, experienced and enthusiastic team!
  • Good management structure and strong clinical system
  • Great Organisational Culture with experienced trained professionals such as fully qualified nurses and therapists
  • Digital radiography in clinics
  • Carestream R4 dental patient system
  • Easy access to public transport
  • Paid annual leave
  • No laboratory bills

About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Details
Date posted: 11 August 2026
Pay scheme: Hospital medical and dental staff
Grade: Doctor - other
Salary: £54,499 to £67,325 a year
Contract: Fixed term
Duration: 12 months
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 348-DEN-12229
Job locations: Gosport War Memorial Hospital, Bury Road, Gosport, Hampshire, PO12 3PW, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
  • Current full Registration as Dental Surgeon with General Dental Council
  • Foundation (Vocational) Training / equivalence and current Performers List number
  • BDS (or equivalent)

Desirable
  • Post-graduate qualifications relevant to Special Care Dentistry, significant progress on completion of Band A competencies

Experience
Essential
  • Experience of organising and running clinics and supervising support staff.
  • Evidence of commitment to continuous professional development and currency within GDC requirements.

Desirable
  • Experience of dental software (R4 or similar)
  • Experience in use of word processing, spreadsheet and database programmes
  • Previous experience in Salaried Dental Services and NHS dentistry

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).

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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.
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