Dental Practice Advisor

Dental Practice Advisor (2 posts) 

1 x substantive, 1 x fixed term (12 months)

NHS Lanarkshire - Kirklands HQ

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.

The remit of the GDS is to manage the arrangements which the NHS Board is required to make with dental practitioners for the provision of general dental services in accordance with The National Health Services (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Regulations 2010. NHS Lanarkshire is expanding its GDS team in light of the challenges facing General Dental Services across Scotland. Within the GDS team our Dental Practice Advisors will fulfil a governance and pastoral role to practitioners, offering support, guidance and advice on all primary care dental practice matters.

We now have an opportunity for up to two suitably experienced and qualified General Dental Practitioner to join our team working on a sessional basis, on average for 2-3 sessions per week. The main focus of this role is to provide governance support to the primary care dental department.  In addition, contribute to and promote the improvement in quality of care throughout general dental practice, to act in a supportive and advisory capacity (including clinical advice, audit and quality improvement) to practitioners, and to provide advice to South Lanarkshire University Health and Social Care Partnership, which hosts GDS on a a pan-Lanarkshire basis on all matters relating to NHS General Dental.

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To discuss this post contact, Shelley Percival, Director of Dentistry at Shelley.Percival@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

For any application queries, please contact Nicole Hetherington, Senior HR Assistant on or via medical.dentalconsultant@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

*Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential childrens setting/secure unit.

NHS Lanarkshire has a legal obligation to ensure that it does not employ any worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK. This permission is without exception granted by the UK Border Agency. We are required to check the entitlement to work in the UK of all prospective employees, regardless of nationality or job category.

Candidates who require a Certificate of Sponsorship can access further information on the UK Border Agencys new points based system that now governs the way individuals from outside the EEA can work in the UK at www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk.

Please follow the link below should you wish any further information on NHS Lanarkshire

Recruitment | NHS Lanarkshire (scot.nhs.uk)

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