Consultant in Restorative Dentistry

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

An opportunity has arisen to apply for a full-time Consultant in Restorative Dentistry post at North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust (NCIC). The post holder will be joining an organisation that values innovative working with supportive colleagues to improve the oral healthcare offer to the population of the region. Aside from clinical service provision, opportunities exist for postgraduate teaching, Quality Improvement activity, and participation in research. The service has close links with other acute medical, dental and surgical specialities in the North East and North Cumbria.

You will benefit from:

  • An enhanced SPA plan with 3 SPAs made up of 1.5 for core SPA, and the other 1.5 for your specialist interest.
  • Excellent research, teaching and innovative opportunities from our partnerships with the Pears Cumbria School of Medicine, University of Lancashire and our regional providers in the Great North Healthcare Alliance.

There is real scope to shape your role around what you do bestIf you have a special interest in periodontics, implant dentistry, endodontics, hypodontia or head and neck cancer rehabilitation we would actively welcome a conversation. We are flexible in how roles are built and happy to tailor job plans to align with your interests, experience and development goals. There is space here to make a meaningful impact.

Main duties of the job

The primary function of the Consultant in Restorative Dentistry is to provide consultant led expertise on referral to patients from general dental practice colleagues and the community dental service. Shared care working is encouraged to provide appropriate care locally for the population of North Cumbria.

The Consultant in Restorative Dentistry will also work alongside Orthodontic and Oral and Maxillofacial Surgical (OMFS) teams for treatment of patients requiring joint orthodontic and restorative management, and Head and Neck Cancer Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) clinics

The Restorative Dental Service is delivered from the Carlisle Dental Education Centre on the Cumberland Infirmary site in Carlisle, Cumbria and is supported by a dental therapist/hygienist team, and an in-house dental laboratory for non-complex work.

Key working relationships for this post would be the:

  • Clinical Director and local Clinical Lead of the Special Care and Community Dental Service (SCCDS)
  • Head and Neck directorate colleagues in North Cumbria Integrated Care (NCIC) NHS Foundation Trust
  • Head and Neck Cancer MDT.
  • Hygienist and dental therapist support within NCIC
  • Community dentists, therapists and dental nurses within North Cumbria.
  • Colleagues within Restorative Dentistry in North East and North Cumbria (NENC) ICB region

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Primary dental qualification
  • Full current registration with the GDC
  • Entry on GDC specialist register in Restorative Dentistry or within 6 months of expected CCST
  • Successful completion of a SAC approved minimum five year training programme in Restorative Dentistry or within six months of completion or equivalent.
  • Intercollegiate speciality fellowship examination or equivalent.
  • An appropriate postgraduate qualification in Restorative Dentistry or equivalent

Desirable

  • Teaching qualification
  • Management/leadership course/certification

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of current, and significant experience in Restorative Dentistry including treatment of head and neck cancer patients, hypodontia and cleft patients, and advanced restorative procedures.
  • Evidence of a substantial commitment to the speciality
  • Ability to provide high quality specialist care for patients seen and treated and an expert clinical opinion
  • Ability to take independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients referred to a secondary centre.
  • High level of experience in undertaking prosthodontic rehabilitation of Head and Neck cancer patients
  • Experience in attending MDTS for Head and Neck cancer and pre-radiotherapy assessments

Desirable

  • Experience of working at consultant level
  • Significant and current experience of working with a variety of multi-disciplinary teams.
  • Trained Educational or Clinical Supervisor

Management and Administrative

Essential

  • Ability to lead and work as part of a healthcare team
  • Experience of delegating work to and supervising staff
  • Experience of communication with consultants and senior clinicians across a broad range of medical and dental specialities
  • Ability to interact and work constructively with consultant and specialist colleagues and dental team members in both primary, secondary and tertiary care settings.
  • Experience in clinical leadership and management including governance of clinical care relating to Restorative Dentistry.
  • Evidence of commitment to audit and improving clinical practice/service development

Desirable

  • Evidence of leadership/project management
  • Evidence of having implemented change
  • Management/leadership course/certification

Teaching

Essential

  • Experience of and commitment to teaching undergraduate and postgraduate medical staff.

Desirable

  • Teaching of non-medical health professionals
  • Postgraduate qualification in dental education

Research, Audit and Clinical Governance

Essential

  • Experience of, and commitment to audit.
  • To have the ability and willingness to teach at all levels and to all groups of staff
  • Ability to critically appraise scientific literature and incorporate into clinical practice where appropriate

Desirable

  • Experience of presenting at regional/national conferences
  • Experience of research including publications in peer reviewed journals

Communication Skills and Abilities

Essential

  • Empathetic and sensitive approach to patient needs
  • Approachable and effective multi-disciplinary team member with excellent interpersonal skills
  • Ability to communicate with confidence with patients and their families, peers and members of the dental team; and other health care professionals
  • Positive approach to lessons learned

Desirable

  • IT Skills
  • Presentation skills

Continued Professional / Personal Development

Essential

  • Demonstrable evidence of lifelong learning
  • Reflective approach to personal development with an ability to acknowledge and effectively manage poor performance
  • Participation in appropriate peer review processes.

Desirable

  • Continued Professional / Personal Development

Personal Attributes

Essential

  • Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
  • Ability to work on own initiative and manage themselves and others
  • Ability to travel to fulfil the requirements of the post
  • Respond to service needs, working flexibly when required

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: 14 August 2026

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