Oral Health Improvement Practitioner

Job summary

Based within the Oral Health Improvement Team, the successful applicant will be responsible for participating with the planning, quality assurance, delivery, training and evaluation of the Supervised Toothbrushing Project, and other oral health improvement programmes within the agreed service specification.

The successful applicant should have good organisational, social and communication skills and patience to influence clinical and non-clinical teams and a variety of other groups. You should also have a full understanding of the current evidence base of prevention and oral health improvement, health promotion models and an awareness of the needs of a multi-racial, multi-cultural, socially diverse society. A post-qualification is desirable.

Main duties of the job

The main purpose of the role it to:-

o Reduce oral health and social inequality across Manchester

o Improve the oral health status of the 0-19 age population residing in Manchester.

o Integrate and embed oral health promotion into the agenda's and policies of Health, Social Care, Sure Start, Schools and Early Years settings across Manchester.

o Improve or maintain the oral health of older and vulnerable people residing in nursing, residential and care settings.

o Deliver programmes in-line with the service specification across Manchester.

o Facilitate and deliver training courses in own area of expertise

o Collaborate and work in partnership, developing and strengthening professional working relationships to improve health outcomes.

About us

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.