Civilian Dental Practitioner inWolverhampton inWolverhampton PUBLISHED WED 27 NOV 2024

Are you looking to work in a modern, patient-focused dental practice that prioritises quality care and professional development? At Defence Primary Healthcare, we are intent on providing an excellent service in a friendly and encouraging environment.

When it comes to delivering outstanding patient care, our motivated Civilian Dental Practitioners make all the difference. We know just how valuable your skills are, so come join the wonderful team at RAF Cosford and get ready to make a positive impact!

This role is a permanent position offering 37 hours per week, requests to work part-time or job share will be considered, taking into accounts business needs, and the salary will be pro-rata where part-time hours are undertaken.

Could this be the role for you? If so, we'd love to hear from you!

Benefits

• General Dental Council (GDC) Annual Fees are currently reimbursed
• Paid Annual Leave (Pro Rata for part time)
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• On-Call Allowance
• Access to pension scheme
• Regional training days/Peer Review Days with free transport
• Continuous professional development (CDP) training supplied
• Free Laundry of clinical wear & free clinical footwear
• We offer maternity, adoption, or share parental leave
• Free parking
• Access to gym
• Hairdressers

Here at Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC), we are an inclusive and dedicated organisation working to provide excellent care to our entitled personnel.

Overall, your aim is to maximise the deployability of the Population at Risk for whom you are responsible.

A CDP is responsible for providing clinical outputs, improving, and managing the dental health and operational fitness of service personnel.

Within your contracted 37 weekly hours, 2 hours may be attributed to nonclinical activities including practice meetings, training, and personal administration. The remainder of the contracted hours are to be utilised to provide clinical outputs and work will be directed towards improving and maintaining the dental health and operational fitness of personnel for whom you are responsible.

About us

Duties and responsibilities for the role include but are not limited to

• Travelling to other locations when required
• Inspecting all personnel for whom they are responsible at intervals in line with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines and providing follow up treatment as required.
• Work collaboratively with professional colleagues and in the best interest of patients.
• Ensuring that surgery management, documentation including consumable stores, the safe custody of personal sensitive data and the maintenance of equipment is always kept to a high standard.
• Onward referral of personnel to enhanced practitioners, specialists, or consultants for treatment as appropriate

Please pay particular attention to the attached job description/Terms of Reference and person specification prior to applying, which outlines the role requirements in further detail.

Selection Process Details:

The selection at sift stage will be based on your CV. At interview, you will be tested against the following Behaviours:

• Leadership
• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing
• Developing Self and Others
• Managing a Quality Service
• Delivering at Pace

To be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.

The sift will be completed within 5 working days of the vacancy closing date. Interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed.

There will be no reimbursement for any travel expenses for the interview.

Requests to work flexibly and/or part time will be considered, taking into account business needs.

All employees joining Ministry of Defence who are new to the Civil Servicewill be subject to a 6-month probation period (unless otherwise advised)effective from the employment start date. Successful candidates must meetthe security requirements before they can be appointed.

The level of security needed is security check.

Please note the salary will be pro-rata where part time hours are undertaken.

Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills,knowledge, experience, qualifications and memberships in the CV section of the application form.

Please copy and paste the following link to our YouTube channel for onadvice preparing your best responses with some hints and tips onanswering behaviour based questions. Hints and tips such as: Your behaviours can be based on situations from work, volunteering or home;match your situation to the behaviour requested and how to use your 250 word limit:

www.jobsincare.com/job/jbnsFwIF found successful for this position, you will be required to provide evidence of your immunity to Hepatitis B. Failure to provide evidence of your immunity may result in the offer of employment being withdrawn.

Due to COVID 19, there is now a requirement for dental clinical staff to befit tested for a FFP3 mask, which has to be worn when managing a patient who is undergoing an aerosol generating procedure (AGP) the successful candidate will be fit tested prior to commencing employment.

The successful applicant will have contact with patients and service users.In-line with the NHS England approach, MOD is in the process of making full vaccination a condition of deployment for its healthcare workers employed across the UK. In order to comply with our duty of care,we require our staff to have the COVID vaccine and we will ask for proof of vaccination status during the recruitment process. Please see the attached further information document for full details.

We encourage all our employees and prospective ones to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 subject to any exemptions that may apply.Please see the attached further information document for full details.

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category and we will not sponsor a visa. It is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points based system.

Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking.Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity.There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact