Specialist Dentist & Operational Lead

Job responsibilities

Package Description:

Package Description

As a Specialist Dentist and Operational Lead, youll be part of our valued team at our Surrey services, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Salaried Dental Staff Payscale; Band C LD21, pay scale point 15 - 18
• NHS Pension!
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission
• Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location

Job Introduction

This is a dual clinical and leadership position within HCRG's Community Specialist Dental Service across multiple Surrey sites.You'll provide specialist dental care to patients with complex needs including those with physical, sensory, intellectual, or mental disabilities, medically compromised patients, anxious patients, and children while also taking operational ownership of the service's day-to-day running. The role spans clinic, hospital, domiciliary, and out-of-hours settings.

Main Responsibilities

• Deliver specialist dental care including sedation (IV, inhalation, intranasal), GA pathways, and domiciliary visits
• Lead operational management: KPIs, capacity planning, budgets, reporting, and service development
• Line manage dentists, dental nurses, and therapists including appraisals, recruitment, and HR processes
• Drive clinical governance: audits, CQC compliance, incident management, and quality improvement
• Liaise with commissioners (ICB) and develop service-level agreements alongside the Director of Community Services

For a full list of responsibilities, please see attached job description.

The Ideal Candidate

• BDS, full GDC registration, NHS Performer number, and on the GDC specialist list
• Minimum 5 years' clinical experience in paediatric/special care dentistry (CDS/HDS/GDS)
• Proven operational and staff management experience
• Competent across multiple sedation modalities and domiciliary care
• Full driving licence and willingness to travel across Surrey sites

For a full list of specifications, please see attached job description.

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team.Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As youd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

Finally, we need to let you know that the company youll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job well need to process and hold information about you.If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• BDS, full GDC registration, NHS Performer number, and on the GDC specialist list Minimum 5 years' clinical experience in paediatric/special care dentistry (CDS/HDS/GDS) Proven operational and staff management experience Competent across multiple sedation modalities and domiciliary care Full driving licence and willingness to travel across Surrey sites

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

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