Job Introduction
Are you a dedicated and caring Dental Therapist in the Surrey area? Are you looking to join an NHS Health and Social Care partner which is striving to make positive changes? Would you like to work for an organisation where more than 9 out of every ten 10 of the people who use services would recommend them?
As a valued member of the team, we’ll offer you a competitive salary including pension, on-going training and development and good quality working conditions.
As the Dental Therapist Team Leader / Oral Health Promotion Lead, you will demonstrate leadership skills and team management (including appraisals), contributing to service development by identifying areas for development & transformation within the Community Dental Service.
Our Service
HCRG Care Group is a Surrey based specialist dental referral service, providing routine dental care for children and adults, who due to a variety of special needs are unable to have those needs met in a General Dental Practice.
Main Responsibility
We are looking for a Dental Therapist Team Lead / Oral Health Promotion Lead to join our Surrey Community Dental Service to help us continue to change things for the better.
As a team lead you will work alongside the Service Manager & Clinical Lead in planning, coordinating, and delivering an effective therapy service across all clinics. Consistently working within their GDC scope of practice, under the prescription from the referring dentists, and be directly responsible to the clinical lead.
You'll also help in direct teaching, supervising, mentoring and assessing of staff or students as appropriate.
Clinical responsibilities include:
- Working under the prescription of the referring dentist
- Providing dental treatment to special care dentistry patients with a wide range of complex additional medical needs including physical disabilities, learning disabilities, complex medical histories and barriers to understanding and communication.
- Discussing and informing patients of the indications for ongoing treatment, including risks, benefits of treatment and possible additional procedures required, in addition to the level of cooperation required by the patient.
The Ideal Candidate
The successful candidate will have a Dental Therapy qualification and be registered with the GDC. Having experience working as part of a dental team providing dental care to Special Care patients with complex medical histories and complex needs.
Be confident working as the lead clinician in the clinical environment – including working without a dentist or senior colleague on site and able to lead in their absence.
Must have capacity to manage / prioritise time, information and own workload effectively.
Be forward thinking, self-motivated as well as be able to motivate others within their team.
If you’d like to discuss the role further, or see a copy of the full job description, please contact Lesley Ennis on Lesley.ennis@hcrgcaregroup.com
Package Description
As a Band 7 Dental Therapist / Oral Health Promotion Lead you’ll be part of our valued team in Guildford
You will feel valued as a Dental Therapist within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £41,659 - £47,672 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- *An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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