Bromley Healthcare is a community interest company providing a wide range of services including community nursing services such as district nursing, health visiting to specialist nurses, as well as therapy services for children, young people and adults. Being born from NHS Bromley’s community provider unit we have been providing community services to the people of Bromley for many years and we have a wealth of experience.

Bromley Healthcare is a great place to work. The unique way we deliver services and offer everyone who works here a voice, means that your career with us will be rewarding. Social Enterprises are a fairly new and exciting way to deliver healthcare, offering many of the traditional advantages of the NHS (such as excellent training and development) with the freedom for innovation by being able to reinvest any surpluses we make into the community.

Priority consideration will be given to Bromley Healthcare staff formally identified as being at risk.

Please note that for positions that require you to drive as part of your job role we will be asking for evidence of business insurance. 

Job overview

Dental Officer - Band A

Full time/part time considered

Salary is NHS Salaried Dentists Band A: £39,638 - £59,457 Inclusive of HCAs & dependant on experience

Our Community Dental Service provides dentistry to a wide range of patients including both adults and children requiring either special care dentistry, or specialist care. Several of the clinics are equipped to provide dental treatment with inhalation and/or intravenous sedation and the service also provides dental treatment under general anaesthesia for children and adult special care patients at the Princess Royal Hospital in Orpington.

Apart from providing care in our clinical settings we work with a wide range of other organisations to deliver dental treatment to people in their own homes, care homes . We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible.

The Special Care Dental Service is looking for an experienced and caring clinician to join our multidisciplinary diverse team. 

Main duties of the job

Your main area of responsibility will be to provide dentistry for adult and child patients with a wide range of special care needs, both in a domiciliary setting and in the surgery, under local anaesthesia, inhalational sedation and possibly under general anaesthesia in a hospital setting.  As part of the NHS England Paediatric Dental Care pathway, you will be a team player, able to make treatment plans for, and advise and support other members of the dental team regarding care of patients with special care needs. Experience of working alongside a Dental Therapist and in treatment of patients in a special care dental service setting and using inhalation sedation would be an advantage.

You will have excellent, experienced nursing support and have access to training allowances for Continuing Professional Development.

We are looking for an energetic, flexible and self motivated person with excellent communication and interpersonal skills as well being IT competent. You will take a role in peer review, clinical governance and clinical audit projects. We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic, committed and motivated Dental Officers to join our existing dental team. The service can offer opportunities for the job holder to develop dental skills enhancing their future career as they can work closely with experienced clinicians.

This role will have a requirement to make domiciliary visits so please bear this in mind when applying as this is a essential part of the role.

Working for our organisation

Bromley Healthcare is a community interest company providing a wide range of services including community nursing services such as district nursing, health visiting to specialist nurses, as well as therapy services for children, young people and adults. 

Salary is dependant on NHS experience and current banding/pay point.

Excellent benefits package available including various pension schemes, discounted gym membership, cycle to work scheme, discounted electronics, access to EAP, high street discounts, Blue Light Card eligibility, opportunity to apply for low interest personal loans and an excellent lease car scheme and we are constantly looking to expand our staff benefits.

We are passionate about caring for our service users, and their family and friends, as well as the wellbeing of our colleagues. That's why we encourage all colleagues to take up the offer of the Coronavirus vaccination. The government are currently consulting on whether to continue with planned legislation that would make vaccination a legal requirement for certain roles in the health and care sector. It may become a legal requirement for some roles at Bromley Healthcare. As such, all applicants should be mindful of this when applying to join us and may be required to evidence their vaccination status prior to joining or once they have joined. This includes non-clinical roles that may have contact with patients and service users by virtue of entering our premises.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To liaise with other Dental Officers / Senior dental 
Officers/members of the Dental team, General Dental 
Practitioners and Hospital Consultants as necessary and 
promote the Service with professional employees and other 
agencies. 
Deliver dental treatment and preventive care and education to 
priority groups including those with: 
- Dental anxiety and behaviour management issues
- Medical complexity 
- Learning disability 
- Limitations of personal mobility 
- Other physical disability 
- Relevant mental health issues 
- Plus Size needs 
- Other vulnerabilities, e.g. Looked After Children 
And domiciliary care
Treatment under sedation or general anaesthesia, and 
epidemiological field work and domiciliary care are of 
particular significance as a member of the Special Care 
Dental Service.
Management of, in a clinical capacity, dental therapists/ 
hygienists / dental nurses as required. 
Produce and maintain accurate patient records, complete 
appropriate NHS forms (eg FP17 forms). Collect and 
receipt patients’ charges in accordance with NHS 
Regulations and ensure safe keeping of monies through 
banking in accordance with Bromley healthcare Policies 
and Procedures. Computer systems will be involved with 
these processes. 
 
Produce and maintain accurate records of epidemiological 
field work and dental screening delivered and dental care 
provided. Paper and computer systems will be involved. 

Patient’s dental care needs accurately assessed 
and appropriate dental treatment and preventive care 
delivered. Clinical sessions booked efficiently and activity 
recorded accurately to the appropriate standard. 
 Referrals assessed and treatment commenced within a 
timely manner. Consolidate clinical skills following 
Foundation training and consolidate skills treating 
additional needs patients and those with an urgent dental 
need.