Consultant in Restorative Dentistry Consultant

Consultant in Restorative Dentistry

Consultant

Main area

Restorative Dentistry

Grade

Consultant

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Part time - 0.6 session per week

Job ref

287-DEN-11-26

Department name

LUH - Medical Staffing

Site

Liverpool Dental Hospital

Town

Liverpool

Salary

£109,725 - £145,478 per annum, pro rata

Salary period

Yearly

Closing

26/03/2026 23:59

Job Overview

LUHFT invites applications for this part-time (0.6 WTE) Consultant in Restorative Dentistry post, based at Liverpool Dental Hospital. We are seeking an enthusiastic clinician to strengthen our Restorative Dentistry Service in Merseyside. The successful candidate will contribute to the general restorative diagnostic service as well as providing high-level specialist care in the operative management of a wide range of patients including those with hypodontia, disorders of dental development and head & neck cancer. Experience in multi-disciplinary treatment planning, implant planning, implant based treatments and the delivery of clinical dental education are expected.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be expected to conduct new patient and treatment activity, to help maintain the Departmental patient target activities and provide consultant cover as and when necessary.

The role also requires an i

nnovative approach to patient care, teaching and management.

Working for our organisation

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

For roles at Liverpool Women's, visit their careers page.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Our large and diverse department provides diagnostic, advice and treatment services for the local population as well as secondary/tertiary care across the breadth of Restorative Dentistry. The department is active in the management of high priority patients and involved in multi-disciplinary patient management across the region and within LUDH.

We have close links with Orthodontics, Oral Surgery, Special Care Dentistry, Oral Medicine, and OMFS and have excellent on-site laboratory facilities for all aspects of prosthodontics care.

Many of our existing Consultants and Honorary Consultants have specialty and sub-specialty interests including endodontics, periodontology, toothwear, oncology, implant rehabilitation, hypodontia, xerostomia, fixed prosthodontics, cleft lip and palate and sleep medicine.

The department supports the clinical training of Dental Core Trainees, Specialty Registrars and an Academic Clinical Fellow. There are postgraduate students training in Endodontics.

The successful applicant would be expected to be involved in the teaching and training of specialty registrars and dental core trainees alongside undergraduate and postgraduate students.

The department is served by in house laboratories for removable and fixed prosthodontics with close co-operation for complex technical work. In-house intra-oral scanning and digital production laboratory processes are under development.

A part time dental hygienist and dental the

rapist support the work of the department.

The post is that of Consultant in Restorative Dentistry (0.6 WTE) based at Liverpool University Dental Hospital

The post holder is expected to have a high level of knowledge and expertise in the field of Restorative Dentistry and sub specialty interests in areas such as management of facial pain, complex removable prosthodontics, temporomandibular joint dysfunction, dental materials science. They should have an innovative approach to patient care, teaching, and management.

The post holder will be expected to work under the line management of the Divisional Medical Director of Liverpool University Dental Hospital and work closely with the Specialty Lead for Restorative Dentistry

The post holder will be expected to conduct new patient and treatment activity, to maintain required clinical service and provide consultant cover as and when necessary.

The appointee will be involved in teaching and training of dental core trainees, specialty registrars and post-CCST trainees

The post holder will be expected to liaise with dental & medical colleagues in other specialties at LUDH and LUHFT.

here may be opportunities to be involved in the teaching of undergraduates and postgraduate students. The post holder is responsible to the School to discharge such duties, with the award of the appropriate University of Liverpool honorary contract.

The post holder will help to foster good relation

ships between the Dental Hospital and General Dental Practitioners, Community Dental Services and other health care providers. The post-holder will be expected to participate in continuing dental education meetings and in quality improvement initiatives and is expected to work within the Trust's Clinical Governance frameworks

The post holder will have responsibility for carrying out teaching, examination and accreditation duties as required and contributing to postgraduate and continuing medical and dental activity, locally and nationally

The post holder will be expected to engage in their own continuing professional development and to provide continuing dental education for other staff.

Person specification

Registration

Essential criteria

• Full registration with the United Kingdom General Dental Council
• On the Restorative Dentistry Specialist List of the UK General Dental Council.
• On the Prosthodontics Specialist List of the UK General Dental Council
  
  

Desirable criteria

• On additional Specialist List of the UK General Dental Council (periodontics, endodontics)
  
  

Professional Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Possession of a CCST in Restorative Dentistry or within 6 months of attainment
• Intercollegiate Specialty Fellowship Examination in Restorative Dentistry or equivalent
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Other qualification in Restorative Dentistry e.g. M Pros, MSc, Professional Doctorate
  
  

Clinical

Essential criteria

• Experience in the multidisciplinary management of Restorative patients
• Experience in prosthodontics, endodontics and periodontics
• Experience and expertise in the management of patients complex restorative needs including complex occlusion and removable prosthodontics
• Experience and expertise in the multi-disciplinary management of facial pain patients
• Experience in management of medically complex patients including those with allergies in relation to dental materials
  
  

Teaching

Essential criteria

• Experience of postgraduate and undergraduate teaching
• Experience in clinical supervision of DCTs, StRs and postgraduates
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Teaching qualification
• Teaching Specialist Restorative Dentistry at a National and International level.
  
  

Quality Improvement

Essential criteria

• Effective participation in clinical audits/service evaluations/quality improvement programmes
• Experience in incident management and governance systems
• Experience in appraisal of others
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Lead role in delivery of QI initiatives
  
  

Research

Essential criteria

• Ability to appraise scientific literature critically
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Publications in peer reviewed journals
• Participation in clinical research
• Participation in research relevant to Restorative Dentistry
• Research qualification (e.g. MRes, PhD)
  
  

Management

Essential criteria

• Experience in the day-today clinical management of a Restorative Dentistry clinic
  
  

Desirable criteria

• day clinical management of a Restorative Dentistry clinic Clinical leadership experience in Restorative dentistry
  
  

Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.

Posts advertised to 'internal staff' are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.

Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.

Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

Candidates applying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank should note that due to the nature of the role, workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months' of their 18^th birthday.

The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working

options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.

The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.

Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £26.50 (standard disclosure) or £54.50 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment.

From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people a

nd vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults' policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.

Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation.

All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.

As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.

If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on 0151 706 4666 at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (E

ngland and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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