Civilian Dental Practitioner (CDP) inBulford Camp inBulford Camp PUBLISHED TUE 3 DEC 2024

Here at Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC), we are an inclusive and dedicated organisation working to provide excellent care to our entitled personnel.

Are you looking for a captivating role working alongside the military, a role that offers great benefits and opportunities for furthering your own career development as well as being part of an excellent team!

We have a wonderful opportunity for an enthusiastic, committed, and professional Civilian Dental Practitioner (CDP) to join our Primary Health Care team here at dental centre Bulford, Det 3 Dental GP, Ward BKS, Bulford Camp, Salisbury, SP4 9AD.

This role is a permanent position offering 37 hours per week, requests to work part-time or job share will be considered, taking into accounts business needs, and the salary will be pro-rata where part-time hours are undertaken.

We offer the following employee benefits:

• General Dental Council (GDC) Annual Fees are currently reimbursed
• Paid Annual Leave (Pro Rata for part time)!
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• On-Call Allowance
• Access to pension scheme
• Regional training days/Peer Review Days with free transport
• Continuous professional development (CPD) training supplied
• Discounted fee to access fitness facilities
• Free laundry of clinical wear & Free Clinical footwear
• We offer maternity, adoption, or shared parental leave
• Free parking

A CDP is responsible for providing clinical outputs, improving, and managing the dental health and operational fitness of service personnel.

Within your contracted 37 weekly hours, 2 hours may be attributed to nonclinical activities including practice meetings, training, and personal administration.

Overall, your aim is to maximise the deployability of the Population at Risk for whom you are responsible.

About us

Duties and responsibilities for the role include but are not limited to:

• Inspecting all personnel for whom they are responsible at intervals in line with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines and providing follow up treatment as required.
• Work collaboratively with professional colleagues and in the best interest of patients.
• Ensuring that surgery management, documentation including consumable stores, the safe custody of personal sensitive data and the maintenance of equipment is always kept to a high standard.
• Onward referral of personnel to enhanced practitioners, specialists, or consultants for treatment as appropriate

Please pay particular attention to the attached Job Description and Person Specification prior to applying, which outlines the role requirements in further detail.

This vacancy is using Success Profiles( www.jobsincare.com/job/jbnsL6wh and the selection at sift stage will be based on your CV application, once copied and pasted onto your application.

Ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications, and memberships in the CV section of the application form.

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At interview, you will be evaluated against the following Behaviours:

• Changing and improving
• Communicating and influencing
• Developing Self and Others
• Managing a Quality Service
• Delivering at Pace

The sift will be completed within 5 working days of the vacancy closing date. Interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed.

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www.jobsincare.com/job/jbnsL6wh found successful for this position, you will be required to provide evidence of your immunity to Hepatitis B. Please note that evidence of your vaccination is not a proof of your immunity, but your serology levels will be required. Failure to provide sufficient evidence may result in the offer of employment being withdrawn.

To be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.

Additional Information:

There will be no reimbursement for any travel expenses for the interview.

All employees joining Ministry of Defence who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a 6-month probation period (unless otherwise advised) effective from the employment start date.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.

Please note the salary will be pro-rata where part time hours are undertaken.

Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.

There is no requirement to deploy as this is met by our uniformed personnel, but you will form the continuity of care required by our patients when based at home.

The successful applicant will have contact with patients and service users. In-line with the NHS England approach, MOD is in the process of making full vaccination a condition of deployment for its healthcare workers employed across the UK. In order to comply with our duty of care, we require our staff to have the COVID vaccine and we will ask for proof of vaccination status during the recruitment process. Please see the attached further information document for full details.

The post does NOT offer relocation expenses (move of home, excess fares or temporary transfer). Non Standard move applicants will be eligible for the full package, subject to eligibility.

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category and we will not sponsor a visa. It is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points based system.

Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

This vacancy is part of the A Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative, Making the Civil Service a Great Place to Work for Veterans - GOV.UK ( www.jobsincare.com/job/jbnsL6wh Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

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The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments.