Job summary
- Main area
- Oral Health Educator
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity Cover)
- Hours
- Part time - 10 hours per week
- Job ref
- 190-7912-DIR
- Employer
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Firth Park Dental Clinic
- Town
- Sheffield
- Salary
- £25,147 - £27,596 per annum pro rata for part time staff
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/07/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 24/07/2024
Employer heading
Oral Health Educator
NHS AfC: Band 4
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
To deliver oral health education and promotion programmes, providing advice and resources to a broad spectrum of clients, including groups of the population and individuals and to develop materials for use in oral health education.
To facilitate supervised toothbrushing clubs in schools and nurseries and obtain relevant data under the direction of the oral health promotion manager.
Main duties of the job
To prepare and present oral health promotion programmes for a broad range of clients of various ages and academic levels where elements of interruption and unpredictability may be present.
To provide specialist knowledge and advice of oral and public health information, to healthcare, educational and social professions using different forms of teaching and training.
To maintain and develop partnership working within early years settings to improve oral health.
To communicate and liaise with early year providers, health promotion staff and others involved in organisation and delivery of oral health promotion programmes.
To provide training, resources and information to settings taking part in a supervised toothbrushing club.
To provide oral health messages and promote positive health behaviours to parents/carers.
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
The Oral Health Promotion Team provides an oral health improvement programme in Sheffield to improve oral health for our local communities and reduce inequalities particularly of children and young
people and vulnerable adults.
The oral health team work within a range of settings through partnerships between health, local authorities and the voluntary independent sector.
The Community and Special Care Dental Service is the main provider of special care dentistry in Sheffield. The service provides dental care in community settings for children and adults who have difficulty accessing dental treatment in general dental practice or who require special care dentistry on a referral basis.
This vacancy is advertised on a fixed term contract basis for a period of a maximum of twelve months due to maternity leave of the substantive post holder. The fixed term contract status of the post holder will be reviewed in accordance with the Trust's legal obligations regarding fixed term contracts and statutory maternity provisions.
Please also note any secondment must first be agreed with your current line manager.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
education and experience
Essential criteria
- Qualified Dental professional
- Oral Health Education Certificate or willing to work towards.
- Previous experience of oral health promotion work with individuals and/or groups
- Good communication skills at all levels and an understanding of the communication barriers related to the services specialist client groups
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience of working with or knowledge of staff working in health education and special care
- Experience of working within a nursery/school setting
- Level 4 teaching certificate or equivalent
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Joanne Charlesworth
- Job title
- Oral Health Promotion Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0114 3078575
- Additional information
Working Days are Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
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