Dental Therapist

Job summary

Are you a dynamic and enthusiastic Dental Therapist, looking to develop your skills and work within a supportive team environment?

We are offering a fantastic opportunity for a Dental Therapist to join a well-established Special Care and Paediatric Service in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Dental Therapist to work within The Special Care Dental setting. This role can be as challenging as it is rewarding and will provide the incumbent post holder with the potential to further their skills utilising the full range of treatments in the Dental Therapist remit, whilst also providing the opportunity to train in inhalation sedation and participate in the Dental Therapist Mentorship Scheme linked to the University of Portsmouth Dental Academy.

Applications are invited from caring and enthusiastic dental therapists for this post which will be based in the Special Care dental clinic within the Cowes Community Clinic. The post holder will deliver dental care and advice to adult and paediatric patients accessing the Special Care Dental Service as prescribed by a dentist within the service. Previous experience of working within a Community Dental Service environment will be an advantage but not essential, and this role may require you to work in other Solent Special Care Dental clinics at times.

Main duties of the job

Clinical treatment

• Treatment of adults and children in Dental Service clinics and domiciliary settings without direct supervision.
• Carry out prescribed treatment plans; assessing, implementing and evaluating clinical care of patients, working within Service protocols and procedures and following professional guidelines. Provide advice on oral hygiene and peri-operative care; and provide personal care associated with surgical procedures.
• Provide oral health education interventions and support in clinical settings.
• Provide lifestyle behaviour change brief interventions and support.
• Operate specialist dental equipment and carry out radiography and process radiographs.
• Participate in Conscious Sedation procedures and special care clinics as required.

Dental Therapy specific procedures

Monitor and record of disease, scaling and polishing, apply topical fluoride and fissure sealants, restore deciduous and permanent teeth, root canal therapies in deciduous teeth, place pre-formed metal crowns, administer of local infiltration and nerve block analgesia, extract deciduous teeth, treat emergencies - temporary replacements of fillings and crowns, take of impressions, take and process of radiographs, treat patients under conscious sedation administered by dental officer, certify and discharge patient as dentally fit at completion of treatment plan.

About us

Make a difference with us

If you are looking for somewhere you can make a real difference and are passionate about keeping people safe, well and out of hospital, a career with us may be just what you're looking for. At Solent NHS Trust, we strive to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of our communities.

We are proud to be an organisation which is focused on our people and we welcome people who share our values to come and work with us.

To deliver great care that is safe, simple and easy to access

To be a caring, flexible and supportive place to work

To deliver the best value for money

Our shared values support the development of a strong working culture. They breathe life into our organisation -- guiding and inspiring all of our actions and decisions. They enable us to be better at what we do and create a great place for our staff to work, whilst ensuring we provide the highest quality of care to our patients.

In creating our values, we spent time listening to our employees and members. Based on what people told us, we created our HEART values to reflect the deep belief that we are caring organisation at the centre of our community: Honesty, Everyone counts, Accountable, Respectful, Teamwork.

We are an accredited Real Living Wage employer.

We encourage and support our staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against Covid-19.