Community Dental Officer – Band A: Sponsorship Available

The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Base Location: One of our Community Dental main base clinics – Rotherham Community Health Centre, Rotherham -New Street Health and Wellbeing Centre, Barnsley -The Flying Scotsman Centre, Doncaster.

We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic dentist to join our motivated and supportive community dental team.

Our service prides itself on providing specialised clinical care for children, young people and adults with additional needs, including treatment under inhalation and IV sedation, as well as general anaesthesia – thus providing ideal opportunities for training and supporting career development.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work alongside the Consultants, Specialists and Senior Dental Officers to deliver dental care to paediatric patients and adult patients with special care needs referred into the service.

The post holder will be based in clinics based in Rotherham providing high quality comprehensive dental care to identified special care priority groups, working within health centres and domiciliary settings. However, where the need arises the post holder will be expected to also work in clinics in Barnsley and Doncaster.

The applicant must be GDC registered and be eligible for a performer number.

Person Specification

Research and Audit

Essential

  • Evidence of audit and the implementation of change following the audit

Qualifications

Essential

  • Full registration with the GDC
  • Please confirm your GDC registration number
  • To be eligible to be on the Dental Performers List

Education and Teaching

Essential

  • Ability to identify own training and development needs
  • Knowledge of data protection, health and safety, COSHH, equality and diversity

Experience

Essential

  • Understands the functions of the Community Dental Services
  • Kept up to date with professional developments
  • Motivated to work with clients with special needs
  • Demonstrable experience of providing dental care for children

Desirable

  • Wide range of clinical experience
  • Varied clinical experience in primary and secondary care
  • Experience of providing dental care for patients with complex co-morbidities including those people with additional needs, a learning disability and/or mental health problems; and frail older people
  • Previous experience of working in the Community Dental Service
  • Experience of working with other agencies
  • Experience in general anaesthesia
  • Experience in inhalation sedation
  • Experience in domiciliary care

Clinical Skills

Essential

  • Approachable and empathic
  • Caring, reassuring, adaptable and self-motivating
  • Ability to show considered enthusiasm & innovation skills
  • Effective team player & ability to build good working relationships
  • Ability to communicate orally with confidence with patients and their families, peers and members of the dental team, and other health and social care professionals including those acting in a caring capacity
  • Ability to cope with challenging, emotional and confrontational situations
  • Ability to deal with sensitive information and respect confidentiality

Desirable

  • Experience of communication with consultants and senior clinicians across a broad range of medical specialities concerning the care of patients with complex needs

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 13 September 2026

To apply for this job please visit www.jobs.nhs.uk.