Civilian Dental Practitioner

Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services)

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Job summary

Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC), are looking for a professional, skilled and enthusiastic Civilian Dental Practitioner (CDP) to join our committed and dedicated team at Abingdon dental centre!

If you are seeking a captivating role working alongside the military, one that offers numerous benefits and opportunities for career development as well as being part of an excellent team. Then this position offering 22 hours per week is just for you!

Benefits include:

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
CPD training supplied
Discounted fee to access fitness facilities
Free laundry of clinical wear & Free Clinical footwear
We offer maternity, adoption or shared parental leave
Free parking

Main duties of the job

As the chosen candidate, you will be providing an occupational oral health assessment, being fully conversant with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Dental Fitness categorisation and dental input into the Joint Medical Employment Standard for Service personnel.

2 hours per week may be attributed to non-clinical activities including practice meetings, training, and personal administration. The remainder of the contracted hours are to be utilised to provide clinical outputs and work should be directed towards improving and maintaining the dental health and operational fitness of personnel for whom you are responsible.

About us

Our success depends on our people, our Whole Force regular and reservist military, civil servants and contractors, all working as one, working together seamlessly to deliver for us.

Our civil servants are a central part of this Whole Force, developing strategy, making policy, supporting ministerial decision-making and Parliamentary processes. In fact, with over 2,000 different roles working across 650 sites around the world, now really is an excellent time to join one of the largest, most exciting departments in government.

The Ministry of Defence is committed to attracting and retaining people from across the full range of backgrounds and enabling flexible ways of working as the norm. We offer maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks full pay followed by 13 weeks of statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, and paternity leave of 2 weeks full pay.

In return, you can expect a department that helps you learn and develop that recognises your expertise and contribution, both as an individual and part of a team.

If you've ever wanted to do more, see more, go further or be better, we have roles in more professions and vocations than ever before. Let's see where your future will take you, together.

Date posted

18 January 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£54,578 to £90,176 a year pro-rata for part time.

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

K0003-24-0067

Job locations

Dalton Barracks

Abingdon

Oxon

OX13 6JB

Job description

Job responsibilities

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

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.
Ensuring that contemporaneous notes are recorded on individuals integrated electronic healthcare records for all episodes of care.
Complying with General Dental Council standards, Defence Primary Healthcare Standard Operating Procedures, Defence Policies (e.g. Joint Service Publication 950) and single Service regulations.
Onward referral of personnel to enhanced practitioners, specialists, or consultants for treatment as appropriate.

For the full list of job duties and responsibilities, please see the attached job description and person specification.

Selection Process Details:

The selection at sift stage will be based on your CV application, ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications, and memberships in the CV section of the application form. Show the sift team why YOU are the one to hire! Remember - make sure no personal details are included.

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.

If 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.

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

Additional Information:

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 as of 31st December 2022. 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.

This job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is an informal, non-contractual and voluntary arrangement, blending a balance of attendance in the workplace (your permanent duty station which is based on business assessment of where the work is best done) and working from home as a personal choice (if the role is suitable for this). If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.

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.

All employees joining Ministry of Defence who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a 6-month probation period (unless otherwise advised) effective from the employment start date. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is a Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS).

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 make sure no personal details are included.

There is no requirement to deploy as this is met by our uniformed personnel, but you will form the continuity of care required by our patients when based at home.

Due to COVID 19, there is now a requirement for dental clinical staff to be fit 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.

The post does NOT offer relocation expenses (move of home, excess fares or temporary transfer). Non Standard move applicants will be eligible for the full package, subject to eligibility.

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.

The role currently being advertised has not been assessed as business critical and 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.

This vacancy is part of the A Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative, <a href=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/making-thecivil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans/>Making-the-civilservice-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans</a>

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 dbscivperssgdmsresourcingteam@mod.gov.uk.

Job description

Job responsibilities

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

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.
Ensuring that contemporaneous notes are recorded on individuals integrated electronic healthcare records for all episodes of care.
Complying with General Dental Council standards, Defence Primary Healthcare Standard Operating Procedures, Defence Policies (e.g. Joint Service Publication 950) and single Service regulations.
Onward referral of personnel to enhanced practitioners, specialists, or consultants for treatment as appropriate.

For the full list of job duties and responsibilities, please see the attached job description and person specification.

Selection Process Details:

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

Additional Information:

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.

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

There is no requirement to deploy as this is met by our uniformed personnel, but you will form the continuity of care required by our patients when based at home.

The post does NOT offer relocation expenses (move of home, excess fares or temporary transfer). Non Standard move applicants will be eligible for the full package, subject to eligibility.

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 dbscivperssgdmsresourcingteam@mod.gov.uk.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Applicants must be fully registered with the General Dental Council (GDC) without conditions.
Certified completion of Dental Foundation Training in the UK or equivalent or have evidence of at least 24 months full-time postgraduate clinical experience derived in a primary dental care setting or have qualified before foundation training became compulsory in the NHS.
To ensure patient safety, applicants are required to have maintain evidence of clinical currency, specifically a minimum of 2 clinical sessions per week over the last 15 months.

Desirable

A background in military dentistry provision and primary dental care.
A valid United Kingdom driving license, this is to enable traveling to and working from other local regional dental centres if requested.
Evidence of currency with GDC Continuous Professional Development (CPD) requirements
Being prepared to contribute to the development of staff skills and knowledge.
Confidence in utilising Information Technology.
Participate fully in the CDP performance management and the Clinical Quality Assurance & Appraisal processes
Be ready to cover On-Call out of hours duties as part of a Regional team, if required.

Provide a CV

Essential

Please copy and paste your full CV as your response to this question - you will not be able to upload your CV as an attachment.
Please ensure to refer to the essential criteria where applicable as your application may be rejected should insufficient information to shortlist be included.
Please use double spacing where possible.

Registration details

Essential

Please provide your membership registration number.
You are required to be registered with the relevant professional body, as detailed in the advert, prior to submitting your application.
Your application will not progress should you fail to provide a valid membership registration number.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Applicants must be fully registered with the General Dental Council (GDC) without conditions.
Certified completion of Dental Foundation Training in the UK or equivalent or have evidence of at least 24 months full-time postgraduate clinical experience derived in a primary dental care setting or have qualified before foundation training became compulsory in the NHS.
To ensure patient safety, applicants are required to have maintain evidence of clinical currency, specifically a minimum of 2 clinical sessions per week over the last 15 months.

Desirable

A background in military dentistry provision and primary dental care.
A valid United Kingdom driving license, this is to enable traveling to and working from other local regional dental centres if requested.
Evidence of currency with GDC Continuous Professional Development (CPD) requirements
Being prepared to contribute to the development of staff skills and knowledge.
Confidence in utilising Information Technology.
Participate fully in the CDP performance management and the Clinical Quality Assurance & Appraisal processes
Be ready to cover On-Call out of hours duties as part of a Regional team, if required.

Provide a CV

Essential

Please copy and paste your full CV as your response to this question - you will not be able to upload your CV as an attachment.
Please ensure to refer to the essential criteria where applicable as your application may be rejected should insufficient information to shortlist be included.
Please use double spacing where possible.

Registration details

Essential

Please provide your membership registration number.
You are required to be registered with the relevant professional body, as detailed in the advert, prior to submitting your application.
Your application will not progress should you fail to provide a valid membership registration number.

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.