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, you will be working part-time over 3 days a week, and travel between 3 of our Dental Clinics: Staines, Tattenham and Leatherhead.
We’ll offer you a competitive salary including pension, on-going training and development.
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 Woking with some travel to other clinics within our service.
You will require a Full UK Driving License and access to a car.
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 require a Full UK Driving License and access to a car.
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
Please see the attached job description for a full list of responsibilities
Package Description
As a Dental Therapist, you’ll be part of our valued team at Woking
You will feel valued as a Dental Therapist within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £35,392 - £42,618 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 100% 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.
Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.
