Oral Health Promotion Specialist

Job summary

Oral Health Promotion Specialist

Band 5

Base - Willowbrook Health Centre, Corby

The Salaried Primary Care Dental Service provides a range of treatment and screening services across Northamptonshire. This includes the treatment of people with special needs, and those who require a range of specialised treatment and/or management. The service also provides Oral surgery provision.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed Oral Health Promotion Specialist to take a lead to continue to develop and implement strategies and programmes aimed at improving the oral health of people living in Northamptonshire. You will have relevant qualification as either a dental care professional (DCP), with a Oral Health Post Qualification or a qualification in public health, and you will have at least 2 years' experience

The ability to organise and to work off your own initiative is essential, along with the skills to communicate and liaise with a broad range of health and other professionals and stakeholders. This is a real opportunity for the right candidate to develop their career in a role which provides a challenge and the opportunity to work alongside other professionals in a broad range of settings.

For informal discussion about this post, please contact Gail Smyth, Clinical Team Leader-Dental, 07717228221

Main duties of the job

• To lead the Oral Health Promotion Service, and as required mentor those staff within the team
• To monitor staff performance in oral health promotion, quality and development in respect of the delivery of OHP services.
• To participate in the recruitment, selection and induction of new oral health promotion staff/champions as required
• To develop and maintain links with other health promotion services to ensure that Oral Health Promotion is appropriately provided in schemes with potential for an oral health focus.
• Provide training in oral health and oral health promotion for other professions and groups
• Responsible for partnership working with other organisations and professional groups.
• Develop, Initiate and facilitate community involvement in oral health promotion schemes.
• Responsible for organising and liaising Oral Health National Campaigns .
• Take an active part in regular meetings of the local and regional Oral Health Promotion Groups and liaise with the local Consultant in Dental Public Health.
• To monitor and deliver manual data returns for OHP including KPI information for performance management and Clinical Team Leader for submission
• Keep records of activities and write reports as required for the commissioners, Consultant in Dental Public Health and Northamptonshire County Council

About us

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

Employer details

Employer name

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Address

Willowbrook Healthcentre

Corby

NN17 2UR

Employer's website

https://www.nhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Address

Willowbrook Healthcentre

Corby

NN17 2UR

Employer's website

https://www.nhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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