Locum Consultant in Paediatric Dentistry: Sponsorship Available

Barts Health NHS Trust

Job summary

The post is for 1 full-time (10 PAs) Locum Consultant in Paediatric Dentistry within the Paediatric Dental Department at Barts Health NHS Trust. This is a post primarily based at the Royal London Dental Hospital with some sessions in main paediatric theatres at the Royal London Hospital and at local outreach clinics. The job would entail meeting the demands on the Paediatric Dental Service, ensuring the quality of service is maintained and supporting training.The service runs specialist multidisciplinary clinics with Orthodontics, Restorative Dentistry and Haematology.

Barts Health NHS Trust provides a secondary and tertiary service receiving referrals from general dental practitioners, medical practitioners and the local community dental service. The department is responsible for education of undergraduate and postgraduate dental students and professionals complimentary to dentistry. It provides dental foundation training, specialist training and postgraduate education.

The Paediatric Dental department provides treatment for children and adolescents referred with genetic dental anomalies, severe dental trauma, and with severe dental anxiety. It also offers a service for children with complex medical problems, including learning difficulty or physical disability. Minor oral surgical procedures on children are also carried out in the day stay unit.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will join an enthusiastic team and undertake new patient consultation clinics, treatment clinics including treatment under inhalation sedation, intravenous sedation or General Anaesthesia. They will be involved in day-to-day management of the department and take on management roles suitable to their level of experience. They will also be expected to take an active role in teaching and training and participate in audit and supervision of postgraduates’ research projects.Applicants must either be fully registered with the GDC or eligible for full registration and on the GDC Specialist Register in Paediatric Dentistry (or eligible for) or equivalent. They must be accredited or within six months of such accreditation at interview stage and have completed a SAC approved training programme or equivalent.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Full registration with the United Kingdom General Dental Council (GDC)
  • CCT (or entered on GDC Specialist registration for Paediatric Dentistry) achieved within 6 months of completion
  • Intercollegiate Specialty Fellowship Exit Examination in Paediatric Dentistry or equivalent
  • Up to date logbook

Desirable

  • Fellowship in Dental Surgery or Membership of the Faculty of Dental Surgery (of one of the Royals Colleges of Surgeons of the UK or Ireland) or equivalent

Experience

Essential

  • Completion of a 3-year CCST training in Paediatric Dentistry (or equivalent) plus 2-year post CCST Fixed Term Training (FTTA) or equivalent or within 6 months of completion

Desirable

  • Experience of paediatric dental trauma, hypodontia and children with cleft palate

Teaching

Essential

  • Experience of post-graduate and undergraduate teaching and training at an appropriate level

Knowledge, Audit and Research

Essential

  • Effective participation in audit
  • Ability to appraise scientifically
  • Management of clinical service

Desirable

  • Peer reviewed clinical research publications
  • Understanding of the NHS including financial and operational pressures
  • Understanding of national waiting time targets (Referral to Treatment and Urgent Suspected Cancer)
  • Organisational skills, good time management, forward planning and attention to detail

Skills

Essential

  • Change Management and Quality or Service Improvement
  • Multi-disciplinary team working
  • Interest in research, with evidence of peer reviewed publications
  • Teaching and Leadership

Desirable

  • People Management

Other

Essential

  • Computer proficiency, including all Microsoft Office packages
  • Communication skills
  • Evidence of team working across multiple disciplines
  • Empathy, understanding, active listening skills, patience
  • Adaptable to patients of different levels

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

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