Specialty Dentist in Oral Surgery | Bristol NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£63,696 - £102,689 pa pro rata
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Bristol, BS2 8HN
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	23 Jul 2026
Closing date:	22 Aug 2026

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Summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Oral Surgery Department at Bristol Dental Hospital as a Specialty Dentist in Oral Surgery. This post offers an excellent opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic dentist to develop their experience within a busy specialist Oral Surgery service while working alongside an experienced multidisciplinary team.

The successful candidate will contribute to the delivery of high-quality Oral Surgery care, including referral triage, outpatient assessment and treatment, dentoalveolar surgery under local anaesthetic, oral biopsy procedures, and participation in intravenous sedation and paediatric general anaesthetic services where appropriate. The post holder will also support the Emergency Dental Service and play an active role in service development, quality improvement and clinical governance activities.

Working within a supportive and progressive department, you will collaborate closely with colleagues from Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Oral Medicine, Restorative Dentistry, Special Care Dentistry and Paediatric Dentistry, helping to deliver safe, effective and patient-centred care.

This position is ideally suited to a dentist with hospital-based Oral Surgery experience who is looking to further develop their clinical skills within a specialist environment. Opportunities are available to participate in audit, research, service evaluation and professional development activities.

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward- thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.

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This advert closes on Sunday 2 Aug 2026

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