Specialist in Adult Special Care Dentistry

Our Community Dental Service is an award-winning, forward-thinking service which is proud of the care it provides to the people of Bradford and Airedale.We are seeking to appoint an experienced adult Special Care Specialist with a caring attitude, who is enthusiastic and committed to improving patient care whilst working within our team, which strives to deliver an outstanding patient experience.We offer an excellent working environment providing a full range of dental treatments including conscious sedation, complimentary therapies and delivering care in a variety of settings within the community. You will be part of our experienced, consultant-led team of dental care professionals who have a strong ethos of working together to improve patient care.Your role will involve providing specialist dental advice and treatment for adults with a range of additional needs including disability and complex medical conditions. In addition to your clinical responsibilities, the successful candidate
will work closely with our other Consultants and Specialists and will contribute to leadership of the team as well as on-going innovation and development within the service.Your enthusiasm, commitment and team-working skills will be key to meet the challenges currently facing Community Dentistry.The available post is full time but candidates wishing to work part-time or in a job share are encouraged to apply.

Main duties of the job

To support the Consultant in Special Care Dentistry in service development.

To provide specialist care and advice to those adult groups following integrated care pathways and support colleagues to do likewise.

To support colleagues in the delivery of Special Care Dentistry.

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -

We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference

We Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs

We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :

Increase mileage rates for > 3500

A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages

A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities

Plus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received.