Job summary
To provide specialist clinical care and preventative treatment without direct supervision to patients attending the specialist Dental Hospital services for secondary or tertiary care. To carry out dental treatment on these patients to a level of competence as directed by the Dental Act and its amendments.
Main contact is with hospital staff and patients. Patient groups as a priority are adults and children with special needs, including medically compromised patients, anxious patients and patients with challenging behaviour.
Main duties of the job
- Carrying out the full range of treatments currently permitted under the General Dental Council regulations.
- Specific duties may only be undertaken if trained and competent to do so.
- Treatment may be carried out within hospital dental departments and wards or by domiciliary treatment visits, if necessary
Treatment is provided following a prescribed course of treatment as directed by a registered dentist. Any combination of the following duties may be performed on a daily basis.
Permitted duties of the Dental Hygienist:
Education of patients on the causes and prevention of periodontal diseases and dental caries.
Identification of risk factors for the dental diseases, including medical and social risk factors and the provision of appropriate counselling advice, including:-
Medical history
- Diet analysis and nutritional guidance
- Advice in the use of fluoride agents
- The benefits of smoking cessation and accessing cessation service
Motivate patients to maintain a high standard of oral hygiene.
Monitor patients' progress using appropriate indices:-
- Bleeding and plaque indices
- Detailed pocket charting
- Mobility index
- Furcation index
Perform supra- and subgingival scaling of teeth including polishing, allowing removal of hard and soft deposits and stains.
The provision of comprehensive specialist periodontal invasive root debridement therapy using Gracey area curettes and high-speed ultrasonic device.
About us
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.
- Please ensure you check your TRAC account regularly as this is how we will communicate with you during the shortlisting and selection process.
- Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully. Please particularly ensure that you provide full details of all referees including BUSINESS EMAIL ADDRESS, telephone contact details and postal address
Job description
Job responsibilities
General Duties
- To be fully conversant with basic first aid and resuscitation techniques, attending regular training.
- Comply with local rules relating to radiography, IRMER and the Dental Radiographic Quality Assurance Audit Policy.
- Comply with the departmental and Trust policy on the control of infection.
- Assess new instruments in terms of performance and feedback evaluations.
- Adhere to Trust policy on Manual Handling, participating in mandatory training.
- Actively participate in Team Briefing meetings and peer group reviews.
- Participate in the training of other grades of Trust staff as required.
- Participate in activities related to the promotion of quality of service, including schemes for clinical audit and standard setting.
- Participate in such continuing professional development and training that may be necessary for personal development, as identified jointly with the head of the service.
- Ensure effective and efficient use of resources.
- Agree personal objectives related to the delivery of the service. Agree and manage time effectively to ensure that the workload is scheduled and completed on time.
- Administrative duties include monitoring of referrals and managing appointments directly with patients and reception staff.
- Monitor personal workload and communicate to clinical lead periodic variations in service requirements
- Support the clinical team in reviewing services and implementing service developments, proposing changes and innovations
- Contribute to the development, interpretation, implementation, and review of national and local policies as well as the services policies, procedures and standard.
- To undertake other duties commensurate with this grade of post in agreement with the relevant line manager.
To minimise the Trusts environmental impact wherever possible, including recycling, switching off lights, computers, monitors and equipment when not in use. Helping to reduce paper waste by minimising printing/copying and reducing water usage, reporting faults and heating/cooling concerns promptly and minimising travel. Where the role includes the ordering and use of supplies or equipment the post holder will consider the environmental impact of purchases.
Job description
Job responsibilities
General Duties
- To be fully conversant with basic first aid and resuscitation techniques, attending regular training.
- Comply with local rules relating to radiography, IRMER and the Dental Radiographic Quality Assurance Audit Policy.
- Comply with the departmental and Trust policy on the control of infection.
- Assess new instruments in terms of performance and feedback evaluations.
- Adhere to Trust policy on Manual Handling, participating in mandatory training.
- Actively participate in Team Briefing meetings and peer group reviews.
- Participate in the training of other grades of Trust staff as required.
- Participate in activities related to the promotion of quality of service, including schemes for clinical audit and standard setting.
- Participate in such continuing professional development and training that may be necessary for personal development, as identified jointly with the head of the service.
- Ensure effective and efficient use of resources.
- Agree personal objectives related to the delivery of the service. Agree and manage time effectively to ensure that the workload is scheduled and completed on time.
- Administrative duties include monitoring of referrals and managing appointments directly with patients and reception staff.
- Monitor personal workload and communicate to clinical lead periodic variations in service requirements
- Support the clinical team in reviewing services and implementing service developments, proposing changes and innovations
- Contribute to the development, interpretation, implementation, and review of national and local policies as well as the services policies, procedures and standard.
- To undertake other duties commensurate with this grade of post in agreement with the relevant line manager.
To minimise the Trusts environmental impact wherever possible, including recycling, switching off lights, computers, monitors and equipment when not in use. Helping to reduce paper waste by minimising printing/copying and reducing water usage, reporting faults and heating/cooling concerns promptly and minimising travel. Where the role includes the ordering and use of supplies or equipment the post holder will consider the environmental impact of purchases.
Person Specification
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Prioritising and planning skills for self in own clinical practice and others within student supervision role
- Commitment to personal development.
- Flexibility and adaptable to change including working in all dental service sites depending on service needs.
- Responsible and accountable for own professional actions.
- Ability to reflect on own practice and learn from experience and feedback
- Ability to practice discretion
- Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team.
Skills/Knowledge
Essential
- Good empathic interpersonal and communication skills (written & verbal) beyond those required for routine dental care in general dental practice.Good knowledge of the role of the Special Care/Restorative/Paediaitric Dentistry in secondary and tertiary care.
- Analytical and problem solving skills appropriate to the provision of specialist care in a specialist environment and those required in the learning environment
- Collaborate and interact professionally with individuals.
- Maintain knowledge of current dental hygiene practice
- Ability to work under pressure and on own initiative
- IT skills in clinical software and Microsoft office
- Participate in and evaluate audit and research.
- Safe use of specialist dental and edental radiography equipment
- Receive and analyse complex information and determine individual care packages in own clinical practice and for multiple patients at one time during clinical supervision of undergraduates
- Concentrate for long periods of time.
- Work without direct supervision and make appropriate clinical decisions
- Be competent in dealing with emotional and distressing situations and possible verbal aggressive behaviour
- Familiarity with all policies and procedures determined locally and within the PCT.
- Ability to source knowledge in order to provide clinical care under quality assurance.
- High quality clinical skills beyond those required for routine dental care in general dental practice
- Ability to empathise with students needs and provide effective feedback
- Knowledge of specific needs of patients with complex medical conditions, eg complex respiratory conditions, bariatric patients and those with dermatological conditions (eg, Epidermolysis Bullosa) to enable safe practice
- Work in confined spaces which may require periods of sitting or standing
Desirable
- Management of patients with craniofacial abnormalities/disease
Qualifications/ Training
Essential
- Degree or equivalent in Dental Hygiene/Therapy
- Evidence of continuing education undertaken regularly
- Current GDC registration.
- Competency in permitted duties: dental radiography
- Competency in permitted duties: Inferior dental nerve block analgesia.
- Competency in permitted duties: local infiltration anaesthesia
- Competency in permitted duties: dental impressions
- Competency in permitted duties: placement of temporary dressings
- Competency in permitted duties: recementing of crown
Desirable
- Competency/certification in the provision inhalation sedation under UK guidelines
- Certificate in postgraduate medical education or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Experience in working/dealing with special needs groups including the elderly, young patients, medically compromised patients and those patients with differing abilities, challenging behaviour and those with neuro diversities.
- Significant experience as a dental hygienist and therapist in restorative treatment for adults and managing patients with advanced periodontal disease.
- Experience of providing treatment for adults with severe dental anxiety
- Experience of treating adults with a range of disabilities
- Evidence of participation in clinical audit/peer review
Desirable
- Experience of treating adults with a range of disabilities
- Previous relevant teaching experience
Person Specification
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Prioritising and planning skills for self in own clinical practice and others within student supervision role
- Commitment to personal development.
- Flexibility and adaptable to change including working in all dental service sites depending on service needs.
- Responsible and accountable for own professional actions.
- Ability to reflect on own practice and learn from experience and feedback
- Ability to practice discretion
- Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team.
Skills/Knowledge
Essential
- Good empathic interpersonal and communication skills (written & verbal) beyond those required for routine dental care in general dental practice.Good knowledge of the role of the Special Care/Restorative/Paediaitric Dentistry in secondary and tertiary care.
- Analytical and problem solving skills appropriate to the provision of specialist care in a specialist environment and those required in the learning environment
- Collaborate and interact professionally with individuals.
- Maintain knowledge of current dental hygiene practice
- Ability to work under pressure and on own initiative
- IT skills in clinical software and Microsoft office
- Participate in and evaluate audit and research.
- Safe use of specialist dental and edental radiography equipment
- Receive and analyse complex information and determine individual care packages in own clinical practice and for multiple patients at one time during clinical supervision of undergraduates
- Concentrate for long periods of time.
- Work without direct supervision and make appropriate clinical decisions
- Be competent in dealing with emotional and distressing situations and possible verbal aggressive behaviour
- Familiarity with all policies and procedures determined locally and within the PCT.
- Ability to source knowledge in order to provide clinical care under quality assurance.
- High quality clinical skills beyond those required for routine dental care in general dental practice
- Ability to empathise with students needs and provide effective feedback
- Knowledge of specific needs of patients with complex medical conditions, eg complex respiratory conditions, bariatric patients and those with dermatological conditions (eg, Epidermolysis Bullosa) to enable safe practice
- Work in confined spaces which may require periods of sitting or standing
Desirable
- Management of patients with craniofacial abnormalities/disease
Qualifications/ Training
Essential
- Degree or equivalent in Dental Hygiene/Therapy
- Evidence of continuing education undertaken regularly
- Current GDC registration.
- Competency in permitted duties: dental radiography
- Competency in permitted duties: Inferior dental nerve block analgesia.
- Competency in permitted duties: local infiltration anaesthesia
- Competency in permitted duties: dental impressions
- Competency in permitted duties: placement of temporary dressings
- Competency in permitted duties: recementing of crown
Desirable
- Competency/certification in the provision inhalation sedation under UK guidelines
- Certificate in postgraduate medical education or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Experience in working/dealing with special needs groups including the elderly, young patients, medically compromised patients and those patients with differing abilities, challenging behaviour and those with neuro diversities.
- Significant experience as a dental hygienist and therapist in restorative treatment for adults and managing patients with advanced periodontal disease.
- Experience of providing treatment for adults with severe dental anxiety
- Experience of treating adults with a range of disabilities
- Evidence of participation in clinical audit/peer review
Desirable
- Experience of treating adults with a range of disabilities
- Previous relevant teaching experience
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
