Job overview

Job Overview

Job Title: Locum Consultant Orthodontist

Division: Surgery and Anaesthetics

Care Group: Theatres and Anaesthesia 

Salary: £113,565 - £150,569 per annum pro rata

We are recruiting for a Locum Consultant Orthodontist who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

This post is for a locum part-time (4.2 PA) Consultant Orthodontist appointment at the Medway Maritime Hospital starting in January 2027 (or as soon as possible after this date) for 6 months, with a view to a substantive position in the future.

The new Consultant would join two existing Consultant Orthodontists to provide a comprehensive Orthodontic Service to the people of West Kent and Medway. The post will involve multidisciplinary care for patients with the most complex problems, as well as advice and treatment for all appropriately referred patients.

The postholder’s caseload is likely to include a significant number of patients requiring a multi-disciplinary approach, such as orthognathic, hypodontia, impacted teeth and cleft lip and palate. 

The department offers a high-quality orthodontic referral service for local general dentists, specialist practitioners, community dentists, general medical practitioners and other consultant colleagues. All patients referred will be seen for a consultation and treated, if deemed necessary, by the consultant and his / her team.  Only patients who fall within IOTN categories 4 and 5 and whose treatment is deemed sufficiently complex (Level 3b) will be routinely offered treatment.  Medway is a spoke for the South Thames Cleft Service and treats a considerable number of cleft patients.

Main duties of the job

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

Working for our organisation

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved.  Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.

Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement which will not mean sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.  

All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.

We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under – represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.

All staff at Medway comply the Trust’s and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board’s policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.