Consultant Oral Surgeon: Sponsorship Available

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Consultant Oral Surgeon to work within Northumbria Healthcare. This is a permanent contract working 6 sessions per week (3 days) based in Northumbria Healthcare, to work in sites across Northumbria and North Tyneside.

The successful candidate will be working with the other Oral Surgeons in Northumbria Healthcare and visiting colleagues from Newcastle Hospitals with the opportunity to develop skills working alongside colleagues in other specialities where appropriate.

The post holder will need to be able to work flexibly to address the priorities of the service, and maintaining flexibility to support RTT performance targets with the benefit of having a largely predictable schedule.

The base site for this post will be Hexham General Hospital but this is a Trustwide position.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable number of application are received.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will be employed by Northumbria Healthcare working across all of our sites, including Wansbeck Hospital, North Tyneside Hospital, Hexham General Hospital in a unit shared with Colleagues in Community Dental, and may be required to work on other sites utilising our theatres and our Community Dental Estate.

To provide oral surgery services to the population of Northumbria and North Tyneside. The job plan will be made up of outpatient and telephone clinics, Local anaesthetic and General anaesthetic sessions, MDT, training, education and service development.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Full GDC Registration
  • Inclusion on the GDC Specialist List for Paediatric Dentistry
  • Successful completion of SAC approved 2 year post CCST training programme in Paediatric Dentistry
  • To be eligible to be on the Dental Performers List
  • BDS or equivalent
  • M Paed Dent or equivalent

Desirable

  • Higher degree
  • Prizes/Papers/Presentations
  • Audit or Quality Improvement Projects
  • Teaching qualification / awards

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: 22 November 2026

To apply for this job please visit apps.trac.jobs.