Community Dental Officer

Northumbria Community Dental are excited to appoint to the post of Community Dental Officer within the Community Dental Service covering both Northumberland and North Tyneside.

We are a team of clinicians providing dental care to vulnerable populations of both adults and children, covering 9 clinical sites.

The successful candidate must show outstanding clinical skills evidenced through experience of working with our population, leadership skills, have audit and quality improvement experience and be flexible to the needs of the service. Working as a dental officer involves working independently, supporting patients with informed decision making, whilst managing your time and clinic. There will need to be evidence of skills around conflict management and safeguarding., The successful candidate will be required to provide comprehensive care to patients with additional needs, including treatment under sedation and general anaesthetic.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick upon Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your