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BORDERS GENERAL HOSPITAL

Consultant Oral Surgeon

Part time available - 7 PAs

Salary Scale: £115,331 - £153,247 per annum pro rata

Why work for us?

Patients are at the centre of everything we do in our daily working lives at NHS Borders ensuring they are protected, cared for efficiently, effectively by suitably experienced and qualified staff driving quality at the heart of patient care. We are a dynamic and forward thinking team with a wealth of clinical and leadership experience. We aim for an open and honest culture and believe in nurturing future stars in NHS.

Borders General Hospital is a modern and well-equipped 320 bed DGH serving the rural Borders area in South East Scotland, approximately 36 miles from Edinburgh.

The Role

This friendly department provides predominantly elective outpatient and theatre-based Oral Surgery and tier 2 Oral Medicine services to the paediatric and adult population of the Scottish Borders in a well-equipped and well supported district general hospital.



The hospital cares for 2% of the population of Scotland spread over 10% of the country, which presents challenges requiring a flexible and adaptable approach. This is helped by the presence of excellent GPs, GDPs and Public Dental Service across the region, with whom the applicant will be expected to build rapport over the coming years.

The post consists of a mix of outpatient consultation clinics, treatment sessions using local anaesthetic and intravenous sedation, and theatre sessions.

There is no out-of-hours commitment with this post, but the successful applicant will be expected to consult and manage emergency presentations during working hours, working with our Emergency Departments colleagues, including identification and onward referral of patients requiring OMFS in-patient management. Out-of-hours emergency cover is provided by the OMFS team based in NHS Lothian.

The hospital is located in a rural

📌 Consultant in Oral Surgery (Chandigarh)
🏢 NHS Scotland
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