Registration Officer

Contract: 1 x Permanent, 1 x Fixed-term contract for 12 months (maternity cover)

Hours: Full time

If you offer experience of maintaining records and databases, this is an exciting opportunity to play a crucial role in ensuring the ongoing maintenance of the GDC’s dental register.

This is your chance to build on your own skills and experience and make a worthwhile contribution to our work.

• Registering qualified dentists and dental care professionals by assessing all UK-qualified applications, ensuring all evidence provided meets the criteria for registration.
• Restoring dental professionals to the register.
• Providing advice, assistance and guidance to newly graduated, and returning dentists and dental care professionals, on the requirements for registration and restoration with the GDC.
• Processing and reconciling payments for applicants for registration and restoration.

• Knowledge of database and record maintenance.
• Ability to use the full suite of Microsoft Office applications.
• Experience of working to tight deadlines under pressure; requiring the ability to multi task and plan and organise a varied and diverse workload and prioritise accordingly.
• Good communication skills both written and verbal.
• Ability to work well in a team and individually with a proactive and reliable approach to work.

Our primary purpose is to protect patient safety and maintain public confidence in dental services. To achieve this, we register qualified dental professionals, set standards for the dental team, investigate complaints about dental professionals' fitness to practise, and work to ensure the quality of dental education.

Our work matters and so do our people. We are committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion by recruiting and strengthening our teams with team members from different backgrounds, life experiences and viewpoints. Equality and diversity are not just words; they are what makes our teams strong and able to deliver. We want to be champions of diversity and to have a sense of belonging in the workplace, where everybody has the chance to contribute and to share what is important to them.

The GDC is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, that provides an environment that reflects our values and culture and allows employees to flourish.

To support this we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, including flexible working arrangements from day one and employee networks that aid growth and development.

Some of our benefits include:

• 27 days holiday (plus statutory) - rising to 30 days after 2 years’ service
• Employer pension contributions up to 10%
• Buy/Sell annual leave
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption leave from 1 years’ service.
• Life assurance, income protection plan and enhanced sick leave policy
• Staff discounts including eye care contributions and discounted gym membership.

We encourage and support the recruitment, retention, and career development of people from as wide a range as possible of ethnic, cultural and social backgrounds.