Band A Dental Officer in Paediatric and Special Care Dentistry

We are seeking an enthusiastic and conscientious Dentist to join the Community Paediatric and Special Care Dentistry Teams in Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust.

This is a Consultant lead specialist service providing high quality community based dentistry to anxious children and children with special needs, in multiple sites across Birmingham, Sandwell, Walsall and Dudley. The service also provides mobile dental services at selected schools. Dentists maybe required to drive these vehicles as part of service delivery; training would be provided, as required.

The successful candidate will also be required to provide inhalation sedation services; it will be a requirement of this post to complete the necessary qualification, if not already held, and appropriate support will be given to achieve this additional qualification.

The candidate will spend 3 days per week with the Paediatric team and 2 days per week with the Special Care Team.

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands

To provide high quality dental treatment for adults and children with a wide range of high treatment needs including those who have special needs and are unable to access care in the General Dental Service

To carry out the full range of clinical procedures, including inhalation sedation.

The post holder will be required to move between community dental clinics and work in a mobile dental unit.