Principal Specialist Orthodontist

Job Description We are delighted to announce this unique opportunity for a Specialist Orthodontist to join us as Principal Specialist Orthodontist at our hub and spoke site, Southampton Orthodontic Centre and New Forest Orthodontics . With 24,000 UOAs available this is a substantial, established NHS contract with an experienced therapy team. We’d be interested to speak with experienced specialist orthodontists, with flexibility around how the contract could be structured. As highly established specialist clinics in the Southampton area both our Southampton Orthodontic Centre and New Forest Orthodontics practices have a fantastic team of colleagues with a dual site Practice Manager, dedicated to providing both high quality specialist NHS and private orthodontic care. We now have this unique and substantial opportunity available with 24,000 UOAs, due to replacing our retiring specialist who has been managing the contract through the established therapy-led model, supported by four experienced therapists. We’re seeking specialists who would embrace this therapy model, taking on either the full contract, or sharing the units across our two practices as a hub and spoke model. We Can Offer A role with 2 elements to it 1) as the Principal Orthodontist with a significant UOA contract and established Orthodontic Therapist model 2) a formal Clinical Leader position which we call Practice Clinical Lead as part of the PortmanDentex clinical leadership team (see below for more details on PCLs) This would be a full-time commitment due to the size of the contract You would have the support of an existing team of orthodontic support colleagues, benefiting from therapy led working practices already in place to ensure efficient diary management and positive patient outcomes We offer full clinical freedom and the highest levels of patient care. The team work collaboratively to ensure a seamless patient journey Southampton Orthodontic Centre has iTero scanner, OPG, USO and CEPH. Is located on the high street of Bedford place with many shops and cafes close by and just a 10 to 15 minute walk from Southampton Central station which has links to eg London and Portsmouth New Forest is an affluent area with high patient demand. A 2 chair surgery with a bright waiting room and small lab. It has an iTero scanner, OPG & USO and is located at the end of the high street in Lymington, with many shops and cafes within a short walk. There are 2 train stations which connect to Brockenhurst for services to London Waterloo and other major cities. This is a unique opportunity to be full time, with a substantial NHS contract with the additional seniority of clinical leadership About The Clinical Lead Opportunity Our vision is for each practice to be led in partnership by two critical roles: A high performing Practice Manager (PM) who focuses on financial, operational and people leadership and A Practice Clinical Lead (PCL) who focuses on the clinical leadership of the practice, how clinical factors directly impact the performance and direction of the practice and who works with the Practice Manager. We recently introduced the Practice Clinical Lead role into a number of our practices, to help us emulate the leadership that is lost when former practice owners either leave their practices or look to focus on wider interests. We’ve seen some impressive results from our first 35 PCLs, many of whom feel they have embarked on a whole new dentistry adventure through this opportunity. Consequently, we are now recruiting new Practice Clinical Leads to help us achieve this same success across more of our practices. The Practice Manager and Practice Clinical Lead work together as the practice leadership team to lead the practice and make it as efficient and successful as possible, while being a great place for colleagues to work and clinicians to practice and deliver high levels of clinical care. This really is a unique opportunity to gain exposure to the commercial and leade