Job summary
Applications are invited for a consultant orthodontist post to join our multi-disciplinary team in the Orthodontic & Maxillofacial Unit at Lincoln County Hospital on a full-time basis (part-time considered).

Orthodontics at ULTH provides a clinical service across the beautiful county of Lincolnshire, working in close cooperation with the Maxillofacial surgeons and the regional cleft lip and palate team to deliver excellent patient centred care. The department also has a long history of clinical teaching with a trainee based on the Lincoln site.

Applicants must be on the GDC specialist list in Orthodontics and hold intercollegiate speciality fellowship examination in Orthodontics or equivalent. A full person specification is available within the job description.

This consultant position is a replacement post based at Lincoln County Hospital or Grantham and District Hospital, working across both sites within job-planned activity. This post involves clinical supervision of our specialist registrar trainee who works at Lincoln Hospital and Charles Clifford Dental Hospital, Sheffield. Clinical work focuses on patients with severe malocclusions and those requiring multi-disciplinary care, but some less complex cases are also treated by our Dentist with Special Interest (DwSI) colleagues.

Main duties of the job
The appointee will be expected, in conjunction with his/her colleagues, to provide a comprehensive, county-wide Orthodontic service to the population of Lincolnshire.

In addition, they will be required to:-

• Participate in the treatment of patients undergoing orthognathic surgery, oral surgery and patients under the care of the regional cleft lip and palate service.
• Take part in team, department, regional and national Audits.
• Have continuing responsibility for patients in their care and for the proper functioning of the department.
• Be involved in research where appropriate.
• Participate proactively in the development and management of the Orthodontic service in line with the Trust's Business Plan.

About us
We are one of the largest Trusts in the UK and provide a comprehensive range of health services to the local population. Lincoln is the county town of Lincolnshire. Pilgrim hospital is situated in the Market Town of Boston, and is a modern complex of 566 beds. Lincoln medical school is now in its third year of student intake and there are opportunities for Structured Teaching via the newly built Undergraduate Medical Centre. The Trust is also a part of the Comprehensive Local Research network with a dedicated Diabetes Research Nurse support and opportunities and infrastructure for Clinical Research are in place.

With its open spaces and plenty of green countryside Lincolnshire remains largely unspoiled with less hustle and bustle that grips so much of the rest of the country- it remains a place where people can live and work in comfort. The county scores highly when it comes to education from nursery through to secondary school and has a growing university culture at the City of Lincoln. In your free time there are many places of interest to visit in Lincolnshire with motor racing at Cadwell Park, lakes for sailing, some of the best coarse fishing in the country and horse racing at Market Rasen, not to mention Lincoln Cathedral and Castle and the good balance of traditional eateries throughout the county.

For more information on what it's like to live and work in Lincolnshire please see the link below.
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Details
Date posted: 15 July 2026
Pay scheme: Hospital medical and dental staff
Grade: Consultant
Salary: £113,565 to £150,569 a year
Per annum
Contract: Fixed term
Duration: 12 months
Working pattern: Full-time,
Part-time
Reference number: 357-MLN-336-26
Job locations: Lincoln County Hospital, Greetwell Road, Lincoln, LN2 5QY, United Kingdom

Job description
Job responsibilities
The secondary care orthodontic service in Lincolnshire is a Trust-wide hub and spoke service. The administrative centre is based in Lincoln County Hospital, where this post is based.

Any national/external duties which relate to the consultants professional role and responsibilities can be factored into a job plan with agreement of the head and neck surgery clinical director and the general manager.

Consultants are encouraged where possible to also attend regional orthodontic audit and specialty training committee meetings.

It is intended that the successful candidate will join the existing team of orthodontic therapists, laboratory technician staff, oral and maxillofacial surgery clinicians and clinical assistants who work in the secondary care sector in Lincolnshire. The workload consists of new, review and treatment patients, the majority of whom fall within IOTN 5. Most referrals come from GDPs, primary care specialists or DwSIs and many cases are managed collaboratively with Maxillofacial colleagues. Patients are also seen for consultant second opinions when clinically appropriate.

It is expected that the successful candidate will be prepared to work closely with the Area Team commissioners and the primary care orthodontic providers as part of the managed clinical network (MCN) to ensure that an effective and comprehensive orthodontic service is available to the population of Lincolnshire.

Audit
The hospital has an agreed rolling programme of audit sessions timetabled one year in advance and the orthodontic department combines with the maxillofacial surgeons to participate in this. South Yorkshire and East Midlands deaneries have combined regional orthodontic audit days to enable the regional consultants to liaise, plan and join in with regional and national clinical governance.

Teaching and education
There is a postgraduate medical education centre and an excellent medical library which serves all medical personnel in Lincolnshire, situated at the County Hospital Lincoln. In the library there is a qualified librarian in charge and borrowing facilities with the British Library. Postgraduate dental education courses are also held in Lincoln Hospital in the education centre and the dental skills room.

The Trust is committed to further education and wherever possible funding will be provided for audit or research programmes. Individual research is encouraged as far as facilities allow and our links with the new Lincoln Medical School and University of Lincoln will allow us to foster this.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Full registration with the UK General Dental Council
• Registered Specialist in Orthodontics with the GDC
• Membership in Orthodontics or Equivalent

Skills
Essential

• Broad range of experience in all aspects of dentistry including paediatric and special needs dentistry

Experience
Essential

• Wide range of experience in clinical orthodontics

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Apply through our website).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Apply through our website).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (Apply through our website).