Dentist Salary UK 1st Year - Registering with GDC - UDAs PLVE Tax Self Employment and MORE
Summary
TLDRThis video offers insights for new dentists in the UK, emphasizing the importance of obtaining a GDC number and an NHS performer number for private and NHS patient work. It outlines the vocational training and PLVE routes for UK and international graduates, respectively, and discusses the potential for higher earnings through corporate employment. The video also explains the UDA system, contract negotiations, and how private work can boost income. It concludes with advice on maximizing earnings and the benefits of self-employment in dentistry.
Takeaways
- 📈 The average starting salary for a dentist in the UK is around £30,000, but with proper contract negotiation and maximizing income, it can be significantly higher.
- 🏥 To practice dentistry in the UK, one must register with the GDC (General Dental Council) and obtain a GDC number, which is essential for employment.
- ⏱️ The GDC registration process can take 2 to 6 months, during which time it's advisable to secure a job to start working immediately upon receiving the GDC number.
- 🔑 Having an NHS performer number is crucial for working with NHS patients, which is a significant part of dental practice in the UK.
- 🏫 For UK graduates, the VT (Vocational Training) route is available, offering a year-long paid course by the NHS, while international graduates often take the PLVE (Practical Learning in a Vocational Environment) route.
- 💼 Corporate dental entities can provide quick employment opportunities, assistance with visa applications, and cover the costs of mentorship for new dentists.
- 💰 New dentists should aim for a UDA (Unit of Dental Activity) target of 4,000 to 5,000 per year and negotiate a rate of around £10 per UDA for their traineeship.
- 🌟 Private work can supplement NHS work, with dentists potentially earning an additional £300 per week or more, significantly boosting their annual income.
- 💼 As self-employed professionals, dentists can claim various business expenses, which can reduce their taxable income and increase their take-home pay.
- 🚀 With experience, dentists can expect their income to rise, with some reaching six figures annually, and opportunities to specialize or own clinics are plentiful.
Q & A
What is the first step a dentist should take to work in the UK?
-The first step is to register with the GDC (General Dental Council) to obtain a GDC number, which is essential to work as a dentist in the UK.
What does the NHS performer number allow dentists to do?
-The NHS performer number allows dentists to work with NHS patients, providing them with the ability to offer standard dental treatments under the National Health Service.
What is the difference between VT and PLVE for new dentists in the UK?
-VT (Vocational Training) is a year-long course for British graduates, paid by the NHS, while PLVE (Postgraduate Dental Vocational Training) is an equivalent mentorship for non-UK graduates, lasting 6 to 12 months, to demonstrate competency to work on NHS cases without supervision.
Why are corporate dental clinics beneficial for new dentists?
-Corporate dental clinics can offer new dentists quick employment, assistance with visa applications, and payment for mentorship, allowing them to keep their earnings without additional costs.
What is a UDA and how does it relate to a dentist's income?
-UDA stands for Unit of Dental Activity, which is a measure used to determine payment for NHS dental treatments. Each procedure has a set number of UDAs, and dentists are paid per UDA completed.
What is the recommended UDA target for new dentists starting in the UK?
-New dentists should aim for a UDA target between 4,000 and 5,000 UDAs per year, as advised by experienced dentists, to ensure a comfortable workload and income.
How can new dentists maximize their income while working in the UK?
-New dentists can maximize their income by negotiating a higher UDA rate, working efficiently to complete their UDA targets, and offering private dental work alongside their NHS commitments.
What is the potential gross annual income for a first-year dentist in the UK?
-A first-year dentist in the UK can potentially earn a gross annual income of around £63,900 by combining their NHS UDA income with private work earnings.
How does being self-employed as a dentist in the UK affect tax payments?
-Being self-employed allows dentists to claim business expenses, which can significantly reduce their taxable income, leading to lower tax payments and potentially higher take-home pay.
What are the long-term earning potentials for dentists in the UK?
-With experience and efficiency, dentists in the UK can expect to earn between £150,000 to £180,000 per year, and even more with specialization or owning a clinic.
Outlines
😁 Starting a Dental Career in the UK
The paragraph discusses the initial steps for a dentist to start their career in the UK, including registering with the General Dental Council (GDC) to obtain a GDC number, which is essential for practicing dentistry. It also touches on the waiting period for the GDC number, suggesting that new dentists find temporary employment or start looking for a job to begin working immediately upon receiving their number. The importance of obtaining an NHS performer number to work with NHS patients is highlighted, along with the two main routes for new dentists: vocational training (VT) for UK graduates and a mentored route (POVE) for international graduates. The paragraph emphasizes the benefits of finding a job with a mentor to ensure proper training and integration into the dental field.
💼 Job Opportunities and Mentorship in Dentistry
This section delves into the job market for new dentists, emphasizing the role of corporate dental entities in providing employment opportunities, especially in areas with NHS shortages. It discusses the benefits of working with corporates, such as quick job placement, visa support, and sponsorship for mentorship, which is crucial for new dentists to become qualified NHS performers. The paragraph also addresses the potential downsides, like working in less desirable locations, but suggests that the experience gained can be valuable for the early years of one's career.
💰 Understanding Dental Income and Contracts
The paragraph focuses on the financial aspect of a dentist's career, explaining the concept of UDAs (Units of Dental Activity) and how they relate to NHS dentistry payments. It provides an example of a potential income for a new dentist, factoring in UDAs and private work. The speaker advises on setting realistic UDA targets and negotiating a fair UDA rate, which can significantly impact the dentist's annual income. The summary also touches on the potential for additional income through private dental work and how it can supplement the base salary from NHS contracts.
📈 Projecting Income Growth and Tax Implications
This section looks at the potential for income growth over time for dentists in the UK, suggesting that with experience and confidence, dentists can increase their earnings substantially. It discusses the tax advantages of being self-employed in the dental profession, allowing for various business expenses that can reduce taxable income. The paragraph outlines how these factors can lead to a higher take-home pay compared to traditional employment. It concludes with an optimistic view of the dental profession's financial prospects in the UK, encouraging those considering a move to take advantage of the opportunities available.
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Keywords
💡GDC Number
💡NHS Performer Number
💡Vocational Training (VT)
💡Postgraduate Dental Education and Training (PDEVT)
💡Corporate Dentistry
💡UDA (Unit of Dental Activity)
💡Gross Annual Income
💡Private Work
💡Tax Implications
💡Specialization
Highlights
Starting salary for a dentist in the UK is around £30,000 on average.
New dentists can maximize income by securing the best contract with future employers.
Registration with the GDC is essential for working as a dentist in the UK.
New dentists may need to take the O exam depending on their graduation location.
The GDC number processing time is typically 2 to 6 months.
It's advisable for new dentists to find a job during the GDC number waiting period.
Having an employer ready upon receiving the GDC number is crucial for immediate employment.
New dentists can work privately or on NHS patients with the appropriate numbers.
The NHS performer number is necessary for working with NHS patients.
Vocational Training (VT) is a year-long course for UK graduates paid by the NHS.
PLVE (Postgraduate Dental Vocational Training) is an alternative for non-UK graduates.
Corporates can offer quick job placements and help with mentorship costs.
New dentists should aim for 4,000 to 5,000 UDAs (Units of Dental Activity) per year.
Negotiating a UDA rate between £10 and £15 is common for new dentists.
Doing private work alongside NHS work can significantly boost a dentist's income.
Self-employment allows dentists to claim business expenses, reducing taxable income.
Dentists can expect their earnings to increase each year with experience.
Well-established dentists in the UK can earn between £150,000 to £180,000 per year.
Transcripts
if you Google the salary for a firste
dentist working in the UK under their
traineeship you're going to see
something like this it's around £
UK average however I've got even better
news for you because that £
making sure you get the best contract
with your future employer and how you
can maximize your income so keep
watching and don't forget to subscribe
to the video like comment and do all
that good stuff it really does help so
you've just graduated you've got your
degree in hand and you're ready to start
working in the UK as a dentist the first
thing you're going to need to do is
register with the GDC for a GDC number
this number is Paramount if you're
looking to work in the UK okay and you
will not be able to work as a dentist
here in the country unless you have the
GDC number so head over to their website
and look at the list of documents and
certificates they need for you to get
that GDC number you might even need to
take the O exam depending on where you
have graduated from so make sure you
know what your journey looks like then
you need to leave that with the GDC for
around 2 to 6 months before the they
provide you with that GDC number
typically in that 2 to 6 months most
people will spend it to take some time
off of all the hard work they've done to
get that degree or to get to that stage
of actually waiting for the GDC number
itself I would say crack on get yourself
a job maybe at Amazon or working at
McDonald's or wherever it might be just
to get some income while you're waiting
well the best thing for us to actually
do at that time is to find a job and
ensure that we have an employer ready
for us when we get our GDC number to
start working immediately as a dentist
without any further delays on to the
next chapter here we are going to
uncover what work looks like for new
dentists the GDC number actually allows
you to work privately across all
patients that require standard dental
treatment for most dentists in the UK
the gold standard is to ensure they can
work on NHS patients now the NHS we all
know is in a crisis and people might
even say that it's on its way out or on
its last breaths but still it is very
very important for a lot of dentists out
there especially when they're looking to
employ new dentists to ensure that they
have an NHS performer number so what is
that well as I said the GDC number
allows you to work privately on patients
the NHS performer number allows you to
work with NHS patients and this is
something that is our way in as new
dentists to ensure we're getting paid
getting training and working with a new
clinic and the way to go about that is
two different ways so the first route is
the VT also known as the vocational
training which is usually given to
British graduates that have graduated at
local universities whereby they will go
on a year-long course paid directly by
the NHS which is why we've seen the
figure of $36,000
288 because it's a fixed number for
those people on VT and they will just go
through courses and Mentor ships to
ensure they have the standard required
to perform NHS treatment across the UK
this is great for those students that
have studied in the UK and have all of
their stuff done locally it just allows
them to just get in get the training
they require and have that under their
belt before they move on to their next
level of
employment for those that not graduating
in the UK such as myself and many others
that are watching this video you'll have
to take the plve route this route in
itself is an equivalence to the
vocational training that is set up for
people like you and me that can go and
get a mentorship which usually lasts 6
to 12 months and during that time you'll
be signed off by your mentor to show the
NHS you're good enough to work on cases
for the NHS without any supervision so
that 6 to 12 months will be supervised
by a mentor and that's what your first
job needs to look like you need to find
something that is giving you the plve
for that first 6 to 12 months at least
that will sign that off for you and that
you're being looked after by a mentor
this is super important so when you're
out there searching for a job search for
this okay and then once you have your
pove like I said you're good to go you
can work on supervised on both NHS and
private patients of course and your
career should start from there and
here's the good side of working at a
plve you will not be paid the
to ask for something to remunerate them
for the extra work they're putting in to
make sure you have everything you need
to become a qualified NHS performer so
for this people can be a bit worried as
to finding a job and the salary they get
they have to spend some of that paying
their mentors but this is where the
corporates come in so corporates are
basically large entities that have more
than one clinic in cases probably about
10 or 20 of them they run all of them
and it's quite a business model the idea
that they have is that they will put a
lot of clinics in areas around the UK
that people may not be visiting so often
or people may not want to live around as
dentists so take for example the
northwest or the South in general the
Southwest where there are massive NHS
shortages these corporates will make
sure that they have clinics in these
geographical areas but then who wants to
work there a lot of dentists aren't
going to be going to be looking for jobs
in those areas that's where us pove guys
come in for them we are people that they
can pay a little less to but we can do
the same job as many other dentists
would in some of these more deprived for
dentist areas so the upside to working
with a corporate is that you will most
likely find a job very very quickly the
other thing is they help with Visa
applications so for those that need it
in the UK they can definitely help you
out and then of course beyond that they
will pay for your mentorship which is
awesome news it means that the money
that you get is pretty much yours and
everything else they'll sort out with a
mentor anyway the downside of course is
you're not going to be going into places
such as London for example which a lot
of people do want you'll probably end up
in a more rural location that might not
be your first choice but this is an
excellent sacrifice to make at least for
the first couple of years because after
that you'll have the freedom to go where
you want and the experience to do so so
here's here's my favorite chapter the
money so we're going to discuss income
here when you end up at the contractual
stage and you're negotiating things with
your future employer you're going to go
about what's known as a UDA agreement
now the UDA is a unit of dental activity
which all NHS workers in dentistry must
work by it's like if you do one UDA you
get paid X and each procedure that you
do in dentistry has a set number of udas
attached to it for example a routine
checkup might just be one UDA whereas
the filling would be three and so on and
so forth there are three different bands
of treatment a couple of subdivisions
within band two for example and each of
them outline what procedure goes under
what band and how many udas you'll get
per band of treatment so for example if
I was to do one filling that would be as
I said three udas and on the same
patient if I was to do 10 fillings that
would still just be three udas at the
beginning you'll be asked two things how
many udas can you do and how much should
you be getting per UDA and you'll be
negotiating that now from experience
that I've been speaking to different
dentists they say for new dentists you
should be aiming for anything between
4,000 and 5,000 udas typically employees
will give you a range between anything
from 3,000 up to 6,000 and I would say
those on the 3,000 scale are those with
very little confidence and that kind of
going to take things very slow I
wouldn't recommend that and 6,000 you're
going to be really really stretching
your yourself especially if you are
completely new to Dentistry with
patients in the UK so stick between 4
and 5,000 if you can cover that for your
year your UDA Target that'll be awesome
now you'll also be asked how much well
not asked really you'll be negotiating
for your own well-being the UDA rate
that you'll be on on average for new
dentists in their trainee ship it's
between £10 and about1 Max so what we'll
do for this example is say we are doing
45,000 udas per year for this contract
at £1 okay so that's what we're going to
use for this example and then if we were
to do this £4,500 over the course of the
year at the £1 we'll be making £
49,500 as our gross annual income for
our first year of being a trainee
dentist which is a lot more than that
£36,000 stay to by the NHS on Google
earlier so with 4,500 udas you're
looking at around 94 udas per week if
you take a month off in the year as well
which is quite achievable for the
average dentist especially in their
early years anyway that means that with
that 94 udas that you're doing every
single week you should still have some
time left over to do private work and a
lot of people say why would anybody come
to you as a new dentist and ask for any
private work the truth is they see you
as a dentist they don't really know that
you're a training dentist and if you're
confident enough in your work you can
quite easily offer private work as well
the main thing is you do not want to eat
into your UDA time through your private
work so long as you're on track with
your udas for the day the week or the
month you should dedicate some time to
your private work so long as your
principal dentist or your employer
allows that typically if we were to say
you were just taking home £300 per week
by doing private work and that was
that's a very conservative figure by the
way just £300 a week you'd be making an
extra
£4,400 every year and if we combine that
with your base salary of £495,000 that's
a whopping £63,000
9900 that you could take as your gross
income for the year as I said this is a
very conservative figure and if you
actually have the time to do your udas
at 45,000 in the year it shouldn't be a
problem for you to do a little bit of
private work here and there as well and
one thing that I like to do which I'd
recommend for everyone else to do is to
just go on to any UK dental clinic
website and so long as they're private
they will have their price lists on
there so you can kind of experiment
around there and see oh if I was to do
three fillings in a day how much would I
make and the way to work it out is quite
simple you will take the price list
let's say for example it's £100 for
whatever procedure it might be and you
basically take half of that for yourself
the other half goes towards the clinic
and that's how much money you'd be
making per procedure so let's delve in a
little bit deeper there's a rural
location in the southeast of the country
in Kent and the dental clinic here is
called who dental clinic and I've been
there myself it's very quiet it's kind
of out there in the middle of nowhere so
it's not a bougie London place but even
then if we look here at their prices you
can see that for a typical teeth
whitening it comes in at a cost of
294 which is about 150 quid that you
could be putting into your pocket per
teeth whitening so you'd really only
need to do two of those a week alongside
your udas to ensure you hit that 300
private Target that we were talking
about earlier again get online check
different locations different private
clinics have some fun calculating how
much things cost in terms of procedures
and how much you could be earning so the
next chapter here is to talk about the
take home pay there's a big difference
between your gross income so this
63.9k that we were speaking about and
how much you'll actually be able to take
home because tax is annoying usually
anybody who is employed directly by
someone would be seeing a lot of their
money getting taxed and in the UK there
is no difference to that whatsoever
people do get tax quite a bit here in
the country unfortunately at $63,900
employed directly by someone you'd
actually be just taking home £
46,8
65 it's quite a lot of money that they
take off of you it's around £20,000
there now here's the good news as I
mentioned earlier dentists in the UK are
self-employed which means they're
essentially their own business and
business rate taxes are a lot different
to those of people who are directly
employed as a business you need to have
a car for your travel to work you need
to pay for the fuel and the mileage you
might have a company phone you might
have Wi-Fi to help you with your
business interactions there could be
conferences that you need to go to
there's scrubs that you need to buy
there's so many different things that as
a business you require as part of your
day-to-day activity fortunately we can
write this off as a business expense
meaning out of that
63,9 maybe 20,000 of that is actually a
business expense and then the income you
have left over is the only thing that
gets taxed so really and truly you end
up in a situation where you can reduce
the amount of tax that the government
will take from you because you're using
a lot more of it in your expenses and
that expense can really tie in with your
day-to-day living as well rather than
taking home 46,000 it' look more like 50
or 51,000 you'd be taking home because
you've got expenses to declare and then
you're being taxed less overall so for
those wondering yeah it is worth being a
dentist in the UK because you're
self-employed and a lot of that money
will end up actually serving you more
than just serving the government and
there you have it that's just year one
of income for those looking to do
dentistry in the UK imagine what year 2
three and four looks like I would say in
a lot of cases people could probably get
that six figure Mark in their second
year because you would if because if
you're just working on that contract for
one year in the second year your UDA
rate will most likely go up if you
haven't tied in for a long-term contract
that is at the same time your confidence
with private work will Skyrocket and
you'll be offering more private work to
CL more private work to patients and
ensuring that you take home more
ensuring that you're taking therefore
ensuring that you're taking home more
per day week month and year so your
earnings should go up each year as it
goes along and usually I'd say a well
performing dentist in the UK after a few
years worth of experience should be
hitting about 150 to 180 per year at a
very comfortable rate and the more
efficient that you get working as a
dentist the easier those numbers will
become for you where it goes from there
is completely up to you whether you'd
like to specialize go on many courses
become an
implantologist own your own clinic for
example there's so many rotes Beyond it
and I don't think 150 to 180 is the peak
of your power this is just opening the
door for your potential of earning
within the UK as a dentist and I would
strongly strongly recommend anybody
who's considering moving to the UK to
definitely go ahead and do it because
Dentistry is not dead here yet the NHS
might be but as a profession there's a
lot more out there for us stay confident
stay on your path and if you have any
questions feel free to drop them in the
comment section below or get in touch
with me directly and I'll be more than
happy to help you out fingers crossed
for all all of us and I'll see you on
the next one take care guys
bye-bye
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