Band 7 Dental Therapist | Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	14 November 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£47,810 - £54,710 per annum pro rata
Hours:	Part time
Closing date:	14 December 2025
Location:	Swindon, SN1 2DQ
Company:	The Great Western Hospitals NHS FT
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7559265/249-7559265

Summary

Dental Therapist Band 7: Community Dental Service based in Swindon.

Full time Permanent (part time considered)



We are looking for an enthusiastic Dental Therapist to join our team, providing Special Care Dentistry to meet the needs of adults and children in the local community in Swindon.

You should be innovative, flexible and committed to working in a team environment while providing high standards of clinical care.

The post holder will be required to work 8:30- 17:00, with one hour for lunch, 5 days per week. Our Community Dental Service has 4 dental clinics, within Wiltshire & Swindon. We work in domiciliary settings and within main hospitals therefore use of a motor vehicle is essential. You will join our team to provide care for our service users, those patients with dental needs outside of general practice, and be supported by a Senior Leadership Team, offering mentoring and support and experienced line management.

We can offer an excellent range of benefits including:

· Well-equipped surgeries

· Full computerisation (Software of Excellence)

· Varied and challenging work

· NHS benefits (including pension)

· Commitment to training / verifiable CPD

· Clear job planning

· Variety of work: Special Care, Paediatrics, Domiciliary Care, Health Inequality Projects, BASCD

· Consistent and highly skilled dental nurse support





GWHFT Community Dental Service provides Urgent Dental Care, Special Care Dentistry, Paediatric Dentistry for children with additional needs, and Out of Hours Dentistry to the population of Wiltshire and Swindon. The post holder will use their skills to deliver services within the GWHFT Community Dental Service contract

The Service covers Wiltshire and Swindon, and the post holder may be required to deliver services from any of our 4 sites and in domiciliary settings. The role may include participating in inhalation sedation lists, domiciliary care and epidemiological surveys.

The post holder will provide a wide range of dental treatment including all extended duties appropriate to a registered dental therapist working collaboratively with dentists within the community dental service. The work will be carried out within our community dental clinics, domiciliary visits and occasionally at our hospital sites in Swindon, Bath and Salisbury. There may also be opportunity to participate in Health Inequality Projects in collaboration with the Integrated Care Board.

You will work in collaboration with the wider clinical team to deliver dental treatment and preventative care to children and adults and those with special care requirements including learning difficulties, physical disabilities, mental health problems, medically compromised as well as those with behavioural, social and language barriers in a clinic setting and providing domiciliary care.

Our STAR values – Service, Teamwork, Ambition and Respect – are a golden thread running through everything we do. These values serve as a guiding principle, driving us towards our vision of delivering great joined up services to our local community. Whether at home, in the community, or within the hospital, our goal is to empower individuals to lead independent and healthier lives.

Core Responsibilites
• To perform a range of specialist clinical, restorative or preventative procedures without direct supervision according to treatment plans under the direction of dentists within Great Western Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Community Dental Service or under direct access to defined patient groups.
• To plan the management of patients, often patients with additional needs, paediatric patients and patients with moderate to severe anxiety demonstrating an understanding of their physical and social needs
• To maintain any associated patients records following delivery of care
• to provide oral health advice, oral health plans and instruction to specific client groups with multiple complex needs and to provide advice and instruction to parents and carers.

Please see the attached job description for full information

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This advert closes on Sunday 30 Nov 2025

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