Job overview

This role is offered on a permanent basis. The hours are part-time, 15 hours per week.

An exciting opportunity to join an award winning Salaried Dental Team, working in a well-equipped Dental Practice located in the Spa town of Cheltenham. 

Work/life balance: Working hours 08.30-17.00, with protected admin time and free onsite parking.

Modern surgeries: with quality equipment and materials, including Biodentine and Rotary Endodontics and access to OPG’s.

Motivated Supportive team: Springbank Dental Clinic benefits from a Lead Dental Nurse who is present on site every day, supported by a Senior Lead Clinician. The post holder will also be supported by the wider specialist Community Dental Service. 

Career Development: Funded internal and external mandatory training to maintain your CPD.  A dedicated study budget to allow for career development. Whilst having clinical independence the post involves regular interaction with the Specialist dental service at training events, peer review sessions, audit and team meetings.

Financial benefits: Salaried post that is not subject to UDA targets, no lab bills and uniform is provided.  Post holder will benefit from an NHS pension and paid annual leave.

Looking after you: sick pay, occupational health support and advice including counselling, vaccinations, stress control and resilience, physio and psychological support.

Main duties of the job

This unique role combines the delivery of evidence based general dental care, as well as a special focus on improving the oral health of children. 

The post holder will be expected to provide a full range of NHS dental treatment and preventative care to patients at Springbank Dental Clinic.

To provide dental services as agreed with the Clinical Director, to support service responsibility in delivering essential standards of quality and safety that meet the requirements of the Care Quality Commission.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Working for our organisation

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us.  In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views.  It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

 This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement.  However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.