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.
You’ll access our central online health and lifestyle platform covering healthy recipes, activity challenges, and support information around mental health. All this, and flexible working patterns to help support your work/life balance.
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 to join our Surrey Community Dental Service to help us continue to change things for the better. The position is based in Guildford with some travel to other clinics within our service.
The Ideal Candidate
The successful candidate will demonstrate a caring approach to patients, be well organised, flexible in their approach to work and have the ability to work well as part of a team as well as on their own. They must be forward thinking, self-motivated as well as be able to motivate others within their team.
You will have a full current registration with the GDC as well as a Dental Therapist qualification and with strong communication and organisation skills, and a flexible approach will ensure you deliver positive experiences to patients at every stage of their healthcare journey.
We will also be looking for:
- Experience of providing dental care to children and adults with special care needs, desirable but not essential
- Experience of providing dental care to people with challenging behaviour
- Experience of providing clinical care in a Community Dental Service, desirable but not essential
- Familiarity with Carestream R4 software
- Experience of treating patients under inhalation sedation, desirable but not essential, training to be given
- Experience of involvement in community-based oral health prevention and promotion programmes
- Good interpersonal skills
- Understanding of Clinical Governance
- Broad range of clinical skills in care of children and adults
- Ability to deal with patients' needs in a caring and sensitive manner
- Knowledge of oral health promotion and preventive strategies
- Knowledge of good practice, clinical developments and evidence- based dentistry in dental therapy
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
You will receive a band 6 salary and NHS terms and conditions including an NHS pension.
As well as AfC terms and conditions, you’ll have access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- AfC holidays + Bank Holidays
- MyWellness – a health and lifestyle platform covering mental health awareness and support, healthy recipes & activity challenges and access to our free well-being service available 24/7/365 online and by telephone including; counsellors, post trauma incident support, legal, debt and practical life management helpline, guided self-help, telephonic career coaching and monthly well-being newsletters.
- Access to Reward Gateway - our staff benefits scheme which grants you access to premium offers and discounts on practical spending at national supermarkets and well-known retailers as well as special treats like Virgin Experience Days and Leisure Vouchers.
- We are pleased to offer access to Wagestream -which lets you track your pay throughout the month and stream your earned wages into your bank account if you need them. No more high-interest loans or overdraft fees - simply get paid as you go.
- Access to a range of courses and e-learning to develop further skills, bespoke career pathways and opportunities continuing your professional development.
- Innovative forward-thinking culture with the opportunity to put forward your ideas to contribute to the way we work. You will be encouraged to apply for national funding to drive your initiatives locally to benefit our patients and service users.
- Rewarding and supportive teams, you will be recognised and have opportunities to recognise others by nominating for local and national awards annually and taking part in our new virtual “Ask our Executives” event, where you can submit questions to the board and hear updates regularly on company strategy and objectives.
- Working in an environment focused on the highest clinical and quality standards with 100% of our services being rated overall good or outstanding by the Care Quality Commission.
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006 by our Chief Executive Dr Vivienne McVey and like-minded colleagues, 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.
From around 500 locations 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.
