Special Care Dental Officer

Job summary

Whether you are a Dentist in general practice or Special Care, Solent are offering you a fantastic package to join our Special Care and Paediatric Service within Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are invested in you, helping you develop your skills to be the professional you want to be!

The Special Care Dental Service provides preventive care and dental treatment to children and adults with additional needs who cannot receive care in a general dental setting. Ideally, you will have experience of working with people with learning disabilities but don't worry if not, we will need you to be adaptable and compassionate to support our patients.

We currently have vacancies at our Gosport, Somerstown and Havant clinics and can offer an immediate start to join a team of likeminded dental professionals - what are you waiting for?!

At Solent we provide the best for our teams and patients with established surgeries across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight and state of the art equipment and the use of theatre space in local hospitals. We will offer you a varied caseload where every day brings new challenges with excellent opportunities to upskill in topics such as conscious sedation and domiciliary dentistry, and access to a training budget to maintain your personal development.

If you are looking for somewhere you can make a real difference with appointment times to enable quality dentistry, a career with us may be just what you're looking for!

Main duties of the job

Working with adults and children with a physical, sensory, intellectual, mental, medical, social impairment or disability and those who require specialist occasional care due to medical, physical or behavioural difficulties.

It also includes care for children with extensive oral disease, those with developmental disorders of the teeth and mouth and children who are anxious or too young to accept routine dental treatment if required.

Care will mainly be provided in clinic locations but may also be provided in hospital and domiciliary settings where appropriate.

The service works in partnership with the wider health and social care system to improve access to early intervention and treatment, reduce health inequalities and promote prevention of oral diseases across the Special Care and Paediatric Dentistry care pathway.

About us

Make a difference with us

If you are looking for somewhere you can make a real difference and are passionate about keeping people safe, well and out of hospital, a career with us may be just what you're looking for. At Solent NHS Trust, we strive to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of our communities.

We are proud to be an organisation which is focused on our people and we welcome people who share our values to come and work with us.

To deliver great care that is safe, simple and easy to access

To be a caring, flexible and supportive place to work

To deliver the best value for money

Our shared values support the development of a strong working culture. They breathe life into our organisation -- guiding and inspiring all of our actions and decisions. They enable us to be better at what we do and create a great place for our staff to work, whilst ensuring we provide the highest quality of care to our patients.

In creating our values, we spent time listening to our employees and members. Based on what people told us, we created our HEART values to reflect the deep belief that we are caring organisation at the centre of our community: Honesty, Everyone counts, Accountable, Respectful, Teamwork.

We are an accredited Real Living Wage employer.

We encourage and support our staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against Covid-19.