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Locally Employed Dentist (LED)
| Posting date: | 04 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £49,909.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £49909.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 August 2025 |
| Location: | Portsmouth, PO6 3LY |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | C8192-25-0399 |
Summary
All LEDs/DCTs are well supported and supervised by senior staff in the form of Consultants, Specialist Registrars, SAS grades and Fellows. There is training and active participation in clinical and process audit and clinical governance to inform safe and effective practice. Trainees will attend and actively participate in our monthly audit and clinical governance meetings. The resident OMFS/OS team comprises of 4 Deanery OMFS/OS DCTs and 2 Trust locally employed (LED) trainees, together with 2 medical FY2s. There is also a Restorative DCT who has a separate timetable and does not participate in on call duties. The department consists of consultants in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Oral Surgery, Orthodontics and Restorative dentistry. We have Specialist Registrars in OMFS, Oral Surgery and Orthodontics. We have SAS grades in Oral Surgery and Fellows in OMFS. There is also a Dental Therapist. The out patient department has a dental laboratory with a team of maxillofacial and orthodontic technicians/prosthetists. There are also dental radiology facilities including a cbct machine. The LEDs/DCTs have their own room with good computer access and a shared kitchen adjacent to the outpatient department. There is an active doctors mess with social activities, and an onsite gym and swimming pool staff may join. Please be advised that this post is not a rotational post, the year will be based in Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, Queen Alexandra Hospital. The timetable runs on an 8-week repeating cycle. All LEDs will have clinical exposure to OMFS, Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine and Orthodontics. There are no overnight on-call commitments. We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veterans status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.