Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Salaried General Dental Practitioner

The closing date is 03 November 2025

Job summary

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.

About us

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.

Date posted

15 October 2025

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Doctor - other

Salary

£52,532 to £78,798 a year per annum (pro rata)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

327-25-866

Job locations

Springbank Dental Clinic

Springbank

Cheltenham

GL51 0LG

Job description

Job responsibilities

Gloucestershire Health and Care is committed to embedding and providing personalised care through all of its services as part of our high-quality care strategy. The purpose of personalised care is to empower people to lead the lives they want to live. Personalised care starts with a conversation with people about what matters to them. It builds on what people can do, as well as addressing their health needs. Including new ways of working and delivering care, emphasising that we need to make effective use of the full range of our peoples skills and experience to deliver the best possible patient care. So we want to know What Matters to You and that you will share our values and join us on this very important journey.

Please refer to the Additional Information attachment before submitting your application.

The Trust is required to work in line with the Governments UK Visa and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For more information about sponsorship for certain roles, please visit - https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the Additional Information attachment before submitting your application.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Full GDC Registration
Performer Number

Experience

Essential

Completion of Vocational Training Programme
Understanding and evidence of participation in clinical audit

Desirable

Experience of providing NHS dental treatment within GDS
Experience of using an electronic patient record system

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Full GDC Registration
Performer Number

Experience

Essential

Completion of Vocational Training Programme
Understanding and evidence of participation in clinical audit

Desirable

Experience of providing NHS dental treatment within GDS
Experience of using an electronic patient record system

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).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Certificate of Sponsorship

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Springbank Dental Clinic

Springbank

Cheltenham

GL51 0LG

Employer's website

https://www.ghc.nhs.uk/who-we-are/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Springbank Dental Clinic

Springbank

Cheltenham

GL51 0LG

Employer's website

https://www.ghc.nhs.uk/who-we-are/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)