MoD Dentist

Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services)

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Job summary

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 MOD Dentists make all the difference. We know just how valuable your skills are, so come join the wonderful team at dental centre Wimbish and get ready to make a positive impact!

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

You will feel valued as a Dentist within DPHC, receiving access to outstanding rewards and employee benefits including:

MOD Dentist On-Call Allowance
General Dental Council (GDC) Annual Fees are currently reimbursed
Paid Annual Leave (Pro Rata for part time)
A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
Access to pension scheme
Continuous professional development (CPD) training supplied
Access to a gym and sports facilities
Onsite shop, canteen and coffee shop
Free laundry of clinical wear & Free Clinical footwear
Free parking

Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.

Main duties of the job

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

Our MOD Dentists aim is to maximise the deployability of the Population at Risk, providing clinical outputs, improving, and managing the dental health and operational fitness of service personnel for whom they are responsible for.

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

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

11 March 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£57,853 to £95,587 a year Pro-rata for part time

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Job share

Reference number

K0003-25-0119

Job locations

Dental Centre Wimbish

Caver Barracks, Wimbish

Saffron Walden

Hampshire

CB10 2YA

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 accordance with The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines and providing follow up treatment as required.
Providing an occupational oral health assessment, being fully conversant with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Dental Fitness categorisation and dental input into the Joint Medical Employment Standard for Service personnel.
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
MOD Dentists may be required to undertake Line Manager responsibilities for other Civilian or Military Health Care Professionals within their area of responsibility. This will be in line with Disclosure and Barring Service, Civil Servant Human Resources Policy and Single Service regulations under the guidance of the Senior Dental Officer, Regional Senior Dental Officer or Principle Dental Officer.

Attention must be given to the attached job description/Terms of Reference and person specification prior to applying, which outlines the role requirements in further detail.

Selection Process:

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/success-profiles), and the selection at sift stage will be based on your CV application, once copied and pasted onto your application. Ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications, and memberships in your CV.

At interview, you will be evaluated against the following Behaviours:

Leadership
Seeing the big Picture
Changing and Improving
Making Effective Decisions
Communicating and Influencing
Developing Self and Others

When choosing your Behaviour/Technical Skills examples, please make sure you use real life scenarios that relate to your own experiences. Whilst technology may help to enhance your written submission, presenting the ideas of others or those generated by technology, could result in your application being rejected.

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.

Further Information:

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

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 security check.

The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-code/the-civil-service-code.

Please see the link to our YouTube channel for advice preparing your best responses with some hints and tips on answering 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.

https://www.youtube.com/@DMS_MilMed

If found successful for this position, you will be required to provide evidence of your immunity to Hepatitis B. Please note that evidence of your vaccination is not a proof of your immunity, but your serology levels will be required. Failure to provide sufficient evidence may result in the offer of employment being withdrawn.

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.

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.

For details on our complaints procedure, please see the Important Information document attached.

This vacancy is part of the AGreat Place to Work for Veterans initiative. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans

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 dbscivpers-sgdmsresourcingteam@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 accordance with The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines and providing follow up treatment as required.
Providing an occupational oral health assessment, being fully conversant with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Dental Fitness categorisation and dental input into the Joint Medical Employment Standard for Service personnel.
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
MOD Dentists may be required to undertake Line Manager responsibilities for other Civilian or Military Health Care Professionals within their area of responsibility. This will be in line with Disclosure and Barring Service, Civil Servant Human Resources Policy and Single Service regulations under the guidance of the Senior Dental Officer, Regional Senior Dental Officer or Principle Dental Officer.

Attention must be given to the attached job description/Terms of Reference and person specification prior to applying, which outlines the role requirements in further detail.

Selection Process:

At interview, you will be evaluated against the following Behaviours:

Leadership
Seeing the big Picture
Changing and Improving
Making Effective Decisions
Communicating and Influencing
Developing Self and Others

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.

Further Information:

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

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 security check.

The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-code/the-civil-service-code.

https://www.youtube.com/@DMS_MilMed

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.

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

For details on our complaints procedure, please see the Important Information document attached.

This vacancy is part of the AGreat Place to Work for Veterans initiative. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans

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 dbscivpers-sgdmsresourcingteam@mod.gov.uk.

Person Specification

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.

Qualifications

Essential

Have undertaken Foundation Dentist 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.

Registrations and Memberships

Essential

Current General Dental Council (GDC) registration with no restrictions.

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

Person Specification

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.

Qualifications

Essential

Have undertaken Foundation Dentist 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.

Registrations and Memberships

Essential

Current General Dental Council (GDC) registration with no restrictions.

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

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.