NHS Ayrshire & Arran
Dental Officer (LW)
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Join NHS Fife’s Public Dental Service (PDS)
During this challenging time for dentistry, joining NHS Fife’s Public Dental Service (PDS) will allow you to contribute to the ever-increasing access challenges, whilst developing your career. Dental Services across Scotland have been impacted by COVID-19 and the PDS continues to play a critical role. In addition to providing urgent dental care, you will also play an important role in the prevention of oral health disease, meeting the needs of the ageing population and reducing oral health inequalities.
Available Posts
The available posts offer exciting opportunities for Dental Officers to provide a comprehensive range of treatment for registered and access patients working under the GDS regulations. Providing dental care for priority group and referred patients, you will also offer a range of services to the young and elderly, develop skills in sedation or general anaesthetic, and have the opportunity to use them.
About You
We are looking for clinicians who make patient care their first priority and who thrive working with a number of different patient groups. In return, the PDS provides an exciting working environment with access to first-class training and development opportunities.
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Location
The post will be based in Central Fife. The PDS is a Fife-Wide service with 12 clinics spread between Rosyth and Cupar, you must be able to travel throughout the Kingdom providing and maintaining the level of care our patients and clients deserve.
Contact
For informal enquiries please contact Louise Kroegler, Clinical Director, on 01592 226525 or fife.fifecds@nhs.scot.
Requirements
A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme prior to appointment.
To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigration Service.
As part of the pre-employment checks for a preferred candidate, NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK. It can be evidenced through a number of routes including specific types of visa as well as EU settled and pre-settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to the GOV.UK website.
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Benefits
We offer flexible working and family-friendly policies and fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.
Please note the salary is pro rata for part-time hours.
Equality and Diversity
NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.
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