Clinical Director - Dentistry
| Posting date: | 09 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | £97,769.00 to £112,360.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £97769.00 - £112360.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 March 2026 |
| Location: | Oxford, OX4 4XN |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9267-26-0274 |
Summary
Provide professional and operational advice/expertise on dentistry to Trust and Directorate leadership teams, boards and committees including as required the Performance Boards, Quality Committees and Extended Leadership Team. Provide professional leadership for Trust employed dental staff, including dentists (all grades including Consultants, Specialists and dental trainees) and dental nurses. Lead the Dental Senior Management teams to ensure clinical and operational compliance and work closely with senior colleagues to provide broader senior leadership to the Directorate and Trust, including participating in the relevant leadership meetings and events. Working collaboratively with commissioners, Managed Clinical Networks, Local Dental Networks, Integrated Care Boards - Pharmacy, Optometry and Dentistry (POD) leads, Local Dental Committee, Healthwatch, Provider Partners, Trust and Directorate Transformation/QI teams and service users to develop clinical pathways and deliver high quality dental services. Lead on the planning, development and implementation of integrated pathways and clinical dental services in collaboration with secondary care providers, including general anaesthetic services. Responsible for overseeing and managing all staff providing dental services within the Trust, including special care and paediatric dentistry, urgent care, oral health promotion, screening, epidemiology and all clinical pathways with secondary care (general anaesthetic). Responsible for budget management for the Dental Services and for monitoring income, expenditure and activity data transmission to the NHS Business Services Authority (BSA) in relation to patient care. The Clinical Director will maintain an agreed and effective clinical commitment to direct patient care, with a particular emphasis on special care and paediatric dentistry as appropriate. Interviews for this role will be held on Friday 24 April 2026 at Trust HQ, Littlemore Mental Health Centre, Oxford OX4 4XN.