Excellent dentistry requires excellent people

Every person in Rodericks is essential to your care, so we endeavour to recruit, train and retain the best people. Everyone who joins us understands our expectations and receives a full induction – to ensure we all share the same ethos of putting our patients at the heart of everything we do.

Through teaching, mentoring and regular reviews, we encourage our staff to aim high. And we guide and support those who wish to study further to allow everyone to reach their full potential. This method has proven highly successful leading to many internal promotions; we are always on the lookout for tomorrow’s leaders.

By providing a caring environment where professional needs are nurtured in a supportive way, we engender loyalty. As the saying goes – we don’t expect loyalty, we earn it.

All teams rely on good communication and our company is structured to ensure communication flows easily. From our central support teams through to our practice teams, we value good communication.

Case Studies

Click the link below to meet just a few of the dedicated and passionate individuals who are already working with us to provide high quality patient care.

View our case studies

Meet Our Senior Team

Shalin MehraBDS DGDP (UK) FIoD.
Founder Chairman
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Shalin Mehra is a general dental practitioner with over 25 years’ experience providing NHS and private dental care. Throughout his career, Shalin has been closely involved with the training and development of our future dentists. He began as a vocational trainer for newly qualified dentists before going on to set up the Northampton Vocational Scheme.

In 2001, Shalin was appointed as Regional Advisor for Vocational Training in Oxford region; in 2005 he became Associate Director of the Oxford Postgraduate Dental Deanery. Currently he is Associate Postgraduate Dental Dean (Foundation Training) and Dental Faculty Development Advisor for Health Education England Thames Valley and Wessex.

Shalin is an advocate for continued postgraduate development and is firm in his belief that there is always room for improvement and that everyone in the profession should strive for excellence. He trained as a Mentor in the Northern Deanery and helped establish Mentoring and Training Mentors within the Oxford Medical and Dental Deanery. In 2007, he was involved in developing monitoring tools for dentists for the National Clinical Assessment Service.

In 2011, Shalin helped develop and evaluate Situational Judgement Tests (S.J.T) within dentistry as a recruitment tool for Foundation Training. S.J.T has been adopted within National Recruitment in 2013 and he is on the National Recruitment Board for Foundation Training.

In his role as Dental Faculty Development Advisor, Shalin helped in the development of Dental Trainers as educators within Oxford & Wessex firstly with Developing Dental Education Course, followed by the Certificate in Medical Education Course, where he has previously been a Course Tutor.

Shalin was on the Steering Group that developed Guidance for Dental Educators, followed by Standards for Dental Educators in 2013; a member of the Care Quality Commission (CQC) Dental Expert Reference Group (2013) and is currently a member of the Steering Group on the Assessed Completion of Dental Foundation Training.

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Gareth York
Chief Financial Officer
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Gareth is a highly experienced commercial finance professional having held a number of senior roles in Industry and led national and multinational business transformation programmes in a wide range of industries whilst in management consulting.

Gareth has nearly 30 years post qualification experience in a wide range of industries. He joined Rodericks in November 2018 having been Director of Finance for another major corporate for the previous 7+ years. He therefore brings extensive experience of the sector and indeed background in growing a corporate dental chain including all the business challenges this brings.

In his career Gareth has held four different CFO / FD roles previously and in addition to leading finance departments Gareth has been responsible for many other functions . Gareth is very familiar with working cross-functionally in developing businesses for long-term success and has extensive experience of large-scale systems / process improvements to drive business growth whilst maintaining control in multi-site organisations. His line management experience is supplemented by over 10 years in national and international management consultancy assignments working for PwC and Deloitte.

Gareth qualified with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and holds an MBA from Aston University.

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Dawn Farrell
Chief Operating Officer
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Dawn has over 30 years of experience both from a clinical and management/ strategy prospective. She began her career as a dental nurse progressing to Operations Director/Integration Director within IDH (mydentist)

Dawn was instrumental in the IDH growth from a small group of practices to the corporate it is today. Dawn brings with her an insight and experience that it takes to build a dental organisation today. Dawn combines inspirational leadership with strategic commercial awareness and her strengths include transforming struggling businesses, identifying commercial opportunities and building strong relationships with stakeholders.

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Catherine BradyBDS FDS RCS Eng. Cert Med Ed LLM
Chief Clinical Officer
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Cathie has worked with Rodericks for 10 years initially as a Clinical Advisor and then as Associate Clinical Director for Support and Development. Cathie wants to continue the ethos that Rodericks are working hard to achieve which is to be a listening organisation both to our patients and to our teams with the aim to improve quality by support and development. ‘We want to help our teams improve their performance by providing good quality CPD courses and ensuring that career development plays a key part in ensuring job satisfaction’.

Cathie qualified at Liverpool Dental Hospital in 1989 and went on to work in secondary care, completing a general duties post in Manchester Dental Hospital prior to working in maxillofacial surgery and orthodontics. Cathie then entered general practice and founded Bloxham Dental Practice in 1996 where continues to treat patients.

In 2002 she became an approved trainer for newly qualified dental graduates and has worked with the Oxford and Wessex Deanery since 2005, initially as a Primary Care Induction Advisor, guiding overseas dentists and now as a Training Program Director for foundation dentists.

As well as maintaining her clinical practice, Cathie has undertaken a varied postgraduate portfolio: in 2003 she gained her Fellowship in Dental Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons of England; in 2010 she gained her Certificate in Medical Education; and in 2014 her Masters in Law, both awarded by Cardiff University.

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Richard Smith
Director
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Richard has a huge wealth of experience and expertise in running and developing companies and groups within the dental and pharmacy sectors.

He began his career at Unilever before spending 30 years working in a series of roles across customer service, multi-site operational management, marketing, finance and operations including at Somerfields Stores plc.

Richard later became Managing Director of Lloyds Pharmacy in 2005 and then CEO of {my} Dentist in 2010. Richard is also the Chairman of Europe’s largest diagnostic and cancer care company, Affidea, and is heavily involved in healthcare across Europe.

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Alpesh KhetiaBDS Cert. Med. Ed.
Director
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Alpesh began his vocational training in 1999, under the mentorship of Shalin Mehra and Steve Brookes in the Weston Favell Group of practices. This was carried out under the supervision of the prestigious Oxford Deanery for which Shalin was VT advisor. Alpesh remained with the group, continuing to work as an associate dentist. In 2002 Alpesh accepted the invitation to become a partner and be a part of the growing group of practices.

In common with all Rodericks directors of clinical background, Alpesh is closely involved with continuing education and since 2008 he has been a joint foundation dentist trainer. To enhance his skills as a teacher and mentor, he recently obtained his Certificate in Medical Education from Sheffield University. The support of junior dentists is fundamental to the continuing provision of excellent services within the UK and Alpesh has twice been a speaker at the Young Dentist Conference, having also written several articles for the dental press.

Alpesh’s key operational responsibility within Rodericks is the recruitment of new dentists, hygienists and therapists, taking the recruitment journey through its entirety. Following this, he remains on-hand to provide appropriate support, advice and guidance.

Through his continuing role as a practicing dentist and with the knowledge of the NHS dental community this brings, Alpesh is well placed to identify areas of need across the country. He works closely with the Rodericks team to ensure continual development of our objective to always deliver excellent NHS dental services.

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Carlos ClarkBDS Cert. Med. Ed.
Director
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Carlos Clark joined the company in 2008 as Business Development Director, moving to the role of Operations Director in 2013 and now in his new role focused on developing our career pathways and CPD for Rodericks’ dentists.

Carlos trained as a mentor in 2011 and is now a foundation dental trainer on the Berkshire scheme. These clinical and training roles have enabled Carlos to bring a hands on approach to the business development and operations of Rodericks.

Within Rodericks, Carlos is actively involved with the training of dental teams. He regularly holds communication, management and leadership courses for all our practices, true to the Rodericks ethos of ongoing education.

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