Locum Consultant Orthodontist

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Applications are invited to apply for a fixed term 12-month, part-time 0.6 WTE consultant post in orthodontics at King’s College Dental Institute, Denmark Hill and Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup sites which are part of King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

The post has arisen due to the retirement and dropped sessions of some consultants and offers an exciting opportunity to become part of a large, experienced, and supportive team of 14 consultants across both sites. The service provides specialist hospital-based orthodontic care, managing approximately 2,700 new referrals and 15,000 outpatient attendances each year. The King’s orthodontic service is recognised for its strong multidisciplinary approach, with dedicated orthognathic, hypodontia, orthodontic-restorative, paediatric-oral surgery, and sleep aponea joint clinics. The service is supported by good clinical, dental/OMFS laboratories, digital facilities and a dental nursing team on both sites. This role offers an outstanding opportunity to contribute to high-quality patient care, in addition, to orthodontic teaching and training of King’s College London undergraduate and postgraduate trainees, and HEE StR & Post CCST registrars as well. The successful candidate will be contributing to the ongoing service development within a collaborative and academically active environment.

Main duties of the job

  • Outpatient clinical activity
  • Trainee Supervision
  • Joint Clinics
  • MDT

Together with other colleagues, to provide a high-quality care service to patients. This includes all aspects of treatment and relevant management duties for the proper functioning of the Care Group.

Provide clinical supervision of junior dental practitioners as a shared responsibility with other consultant colleagues.

Responsible for carrying out teaching, examination and accreditation duties as required and contributing to CPD and clinical governance initiatives.

Responsible for outpatient clinic commitments in peripheral hospitals as agreed with the Care Group’s management team where part of the service structure.

Contribute to the audit programmes, Morbidity and Mortality, Clinical Governance programmes and Learning from Deaths.

Conduct all activities within the contracted level of service and operating plan for service(s).

Work in conjunction with clinical and other professional colleagues to ensure that the productivity of staff within the specialty is maintained and their job satisfaction is enhanced. This may include involvement in the appraisal process for peers and/or junior colleagues.

Undertake Care Group management duties as agreed with the Care Group/Departmental Manager/Clinical Director.

Prepare for and undertake the protective interventions that you are responsible for in a manner that is consistent with evidence-based practice and maintaining patient safety.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Registerable UK dental qualifications or equivalent

Desirable

  • Fellowship in Dental Surgery or Membership of the Faculty of Dental Surgery or equivalent

Higher Qualifications

Essential

  • Intercollegiate Specialty Fellowship Examination (ISFE) in Orthodontics or equivalent
  • Membership in Orthodontics (Morth) at the Royal College of Surgeons or equivalent

Desirable

  • Other higher degree or diploma (e.g., MSc, PhD or equivalent Certification in Teaching)

Registration

Essential

  • Full registration with the United Kingdom General Dental Council (GDC)
  • Name on Specialist Register on date of taking up appointment

Training and Experience

Essential

  • Successful completion of an SAC approved five-year minimum training programme in Orthodontics, or within six months of completion, or equivalent

Administration

Essential

  • Experience in day-to-day organisation of clinical orthodontics services in a busy Teaching Hospital
  • Familiarity with information technology and general computer skills
  • Familiarity with information technology and general computer skills

Management and Leadership

Essential

  • Able to demonstrate leadership capability within multi-disciplinary teams

Desirable

  • Management course and/or qualification

Audit and Quality Improvement

Essential

  • Thorough understanding of principles of clinical audit
  • Must have undertaken and completed audit projects

Desirable

  • Audit Publications

Research and Publications

Essential

  • Experience of clinical research
  • Publication of relevant review articles or case reports

Desirable

  • Relevant research experience in one or more aspects of orthodontics

Teaching

Essential

  • Experience of undergraduate and post-graduate teaching and exam preparation

Desirable

  • Teaching skills course/qualification

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: 31 July 2026

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