The Educational Supervisor: Renuka Handa qualified in 1996 as a Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS), Govt. Dental College, Ahmedabad, from the University of Gujarat, India. She has held many posts since qualifying in both hospital and primary care settings in India, Saudi and the UK. Renuka has 3 dental practices based in Lichfield, Moseley and Wolverhampton and has been an Educational Supervisor since 2016. She is a mentor or West Midlands Deanery and undertakes peer reviews. Renuka has keen interests in cosmetic dentistry, tooth whitening, composite fillings, crowns and bridges.
Outside of work Renuka enjoys cooking, traveling and spending time with family and friends.
The Practice: The practice is a short walk from Lichfield city centre and a few minutes walk from Lichfield City train station and bus station and easily reached from M6, M6 toll, A3 and A5. We have a private car park situated to the rear of the practice. The practice has recently undergone extensions and renovations and now has 5 surgeries, 3 on the ground floor offering wheelchair access and 2 on the first floor. The surgeries are bright, modern and fully computerised with digital x-rays and rotary endodontics. We pride ourselves on providing high quality dental care in a relaxed environment. We have a highly valued team of DCPs including a part time Dental Therapist and qualified nursing staff who have many years experience and have worked with Foundation Dentists for many years. All our team are extremely knowledgeable, we have an open door approach and will help in any way we can.
We know that whoever comes to join our team will be made to feel very welcome and will soon feel that they are part of the Pickering House family.
The Area: Lichfield is a cathedral city and civil parish in Staffordshire, England. At the time of the 2021 Census, the population was 34,738 and the population of the wider Lichfield District was 106,400.
Notable for its three-spired medieval cathedral, Lichfield was the birthplace of Samuel Johnson, the writer of the first authoritative Dictionary of the English Language. In 2009, the Staffordshire Hoard, the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver metalwork, was found south-west of Lichfield. The city was the home of many famous people including Samuel Johnson, David Garrick, Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward.
Other Points of Interest: Pickering House loves to attend local schools and nurseries to give talks to the children on looking after their teeth and healthy eating.
Lichfield is a very community minded city and there are regular events happening. Food festivals, Bower parades, events in Beacon park.
There are many types of accommodation to rent within the area from 1 bed house shares, apartments to houses.