Speciality Dentist - Paediatric Dentistry

Main area Paediatric Dentistry Grade NHS Medical & Dental:
Specialty Doctor Contract Fixed term: 12 months (N/A) Hours Part time - 4 sessions per week Job
-SNCT-JT

Site St George's Hospital
- Tooting Town London Salary £55,355 - £67,325 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 22/10/2026 23:59

St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the regional specialist care provider for south west London, Surrey and beyond. The trust provides a high quality, comprehensive range of health services from leading edge tertiary and trauma care to community services.

With national and regional referrals added to our local 3.5m catchment, we serve a population of around 5m.

Co-located with St George’s, University of London and with both organisations now in a formal strategic alliance with King’s Health Partners, the trust delivers with its partners high quality research and education both of which contribute to the healthcare provision of tomorrow.

Acute and tertiary health services are delivered from over 1,000 beds across two sites, by around 8,000 staff.

St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a major acute hospital that offers very specialist care for complex injuries and illnesses, including trauma, neurology, cardiac care, renal transplantation, cancer care and stroke. It has a helipad which opened in spring 2014 and the work of its emergency department can currently be seen on Channel 4’s ‘24 Hours in A&E’ programme.

The hospital also provides all the usual care you would expect from a local NHS district general hospital.

We also provide services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Roehampton. These include outpatient rapid diagnostic and treatment facilities, a minor injuries unit, limb fitting services and 70 elderly, intermediate care and rehabilitation beds.

As well as hospital services, we provide a wide variety of specialist, maternity and community services to children, adults, older people and people with learning disabilities. These services are provided from St John’s Therapy Centre, 11 health centres and clinics, schools, nursing homes and people’s own homes. The trust also manages the healthcare service at HMP Wandsworth.

Your job plan is anticipated to contain4 Programmed Activities per week on average to be carried out at St George’s Hospital. This is an outline programme and you will be expected to discuss and agree a detailed job plan including your personal and professional objectives with your Clinical Lead within 3 months of your start date. Please refer to the PDF attachment for the job overview and main responsibilities of the role.

As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends

This role is suited to an experienced clinician with enhanced clinical skills in paediatric dentistry who can work independently without supervision. The individual’s main role will be to support the service through provision of high quality dental treatment for patients attending the paediatric dental department under local anaesthetic and inhalation sedation for a variety of conditions. These treatments will have been planned by a consultant in paediatric dentistry.

The successful candidate may have the opportunity to be involved with the delivery of consultant-led new patient clinics, multidisciplinary treatment planning, service evaluation and quality improvement projects.

You will work closely with the consultants in paediatric dentistry to deliver a…