Job summary
Contract until 31 December 2025 - will be offered as a Secondment if coming from NHS Organisation / Fixed Term Contract if coming from outside the NHS.
Mid South Essex Integrated Care Board is looking for a commited and motivated Oral Health Programme Co-ordinator to join our existing Early Years Oral Health Team. This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on the oral health of children in Mid and South Essex.
This crucial role will work with system partners to implement the learning and benefits of the Thurrock Early Years Oral Health Programme across the Mid South Essex area.
Working from home, Basildon office and across mid and south Essex.
Hours - Predominantly 9am - 5pm, but occasional evening and / or weekend working may be required.
Main duties of the job
This role will include delivering educational oral health workshops directly to parents, carers and children, as well as supporting the Train the Trainer programme to upskill professionals from a variety of organisations to deliver oral health messaging and advice to children and families across the Mid & South Essex area.
You will also be responsible for ensuring the distribution of resources required by system partners to complement the training provided. This role will also include collecting data and assisting in the production of reports to provide evidence of the effectiveness of the programme.
This role requires excellent communication skills and the ability to adapt communication styles and techniques to meet the needs of the intended audience.
About us
Mid and South Essex ICB is a statutory organisation responsible for the planning and delivery of local health and care services, across Mid and South Essex and is part of the wider integrated care system. Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) are partnerships of health and care organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined up services and to improve the health of people who live and work in their area. The headquarters for the organisation is Phoenix Court, Basildon, but there is a hybrid model of working, which includes working across Mid and South Essex and home working.
We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know through experience that the different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better patient outcomes. We welcome applications regardless of peoples age, disability, sex, gender, identity and gender expression, sexual orientation, race or ethnicity, religion or belief. We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustment for people who have a disability. We would also encourage applicants to raise any personal circumstances they would like us to be aware of so that we can consider possible adjustments.
Unfortunately, the organisation does not have a Sponsorship licence.
Job description
Job responsibilities
ROLE PURPOSE / SUMMARY
The Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System will comprise the Integrated Care Board (ICB), which is the statutory body for the NHS, and the Integrated Care Partnership (ICP), which is a committee of the ICB, and brings together key health, care, community and voluntary sector organisations across the area.
The ICS has a bold ambition to deliver improved outcomes for our 1.2m population through our four Alliances, and we are placing clinical and professional leadership and the voice of our residents at the heart of realizing this ambition.
The Early Years Oral Health Programme is designed to support young children in achievinggood oral health from an early age and is targeted at children and families in the CORE20LUS5 cohort of residents. Using the CORE20 PLUS5 framework, the priority PLUS groups(SEND, LAC, deprivation, refugees, asylum seekers and migrants) to deliver targetedpreventative actions.
Thurrock has areas of significant deprivation within the borough, where more than 1 in 5children under 16 grow up in poverty (21.2%). 6% of children in parts of Grays are living inpoverty, and 56.4% of children in parts of Tilbury are living in poverty.
These factors impact the health and wellbeing of families and Thurrock has the highestincidence of admissions to hospital for dental extractions in children and young peopleand the lowest rates of dental access for 017-year-olds, with the highest prevalence of dentaldecay in 5-year-olds in East of England Region.
This role will co-ordinate the operational activities on the two-year programme which will focuson supervised tooth brushing through the Family Hubs and across education. The target agegroup for this programme is pre-school and reception to year 3, through 10 programmes ofactivity (these programmes to be run simultaneously).
The aim of the programme is to accelerate areas for improvement in reducing oral healthinequalities across MSE, focussing on activities in Thurrock and ensuring that the benefits andlearning are embedded across Mid & South Essex ICS footprint.
Identify opportunities to implement oral health prevention strategies into current children &young people workstreams and work with ICB teams and stakeholder partners to increaseaccess to dental services.
The role will sit within the Thurrock Alliance Team and will report to the Early Years Oral healthProgramme Support Manager.
COMPETENCY BASED KEY DELIVERABLES
- Responsible for decisions made during the course of duties, seeking guidance and escalating issues where appropriate
- Assist with the delivery of programme plans and workstreams, as directed by line manager and raising any issues with delivery to line manager
- Supervision of less experienced team members
- Responsible for the monitoring of one or more budgets
- Co-ordination of a complex series of planned activities, ensuring that delivery remains on track and within agreed timescales.
- Build effective and sustainable working relationships with a broad range of system partners within the Thurrock area.
- Contribute to the strategic aims of the programme and development of a series of metrics and outcome measures.
- Report writing for formal boards within the governance of the programme
- Develop and deliver Community Engagement and Co-Production Events.
- Work with Family Hubs, Education, and partners to provide diet advice for families.
- Co-ordinate and deliver the supervised tooth brushing initiative.
- Work with communications teams on all communications, advice campaigns and information leaflets.
- Co-ordinate and deliver the Train the Trainer Model.
- Able to attend meetings and other evets as required across Mid & South Essex as agreed with the Programme Support Manager and approved by the Delivery and Engagement Manager.
- Deputise for EYOH Programme Support Manager as agreed with the Programme Support Manager and approved by the Delivery and Engagement Manager.
Job description
Job responsibilities
ROLE PURPOSE / SUMMARY
The Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System will comprise the Integrated Care Board (ICB), which is the statutory body for the NHS, and the Integrated Care Partnership (ICP), which is a committee of the ICB, and brings together key health, care, community and voluntary sector organisations across the area.
The ICS has a bold ambition to deliver improved outcomes for our 1.2m population through our four Alliances, and we are placing clinical and professional leadership and the voice of our residents at the heart of realizing this ambition.
The Early Years Oral Health Programme is designed to support young children in achievinggood oral health from an early age and is targeted at children and families in the CORE20LUS5 cohort of residents. Using the CORE20 PLUS5 framework, the priority PLUS groups(SEND, LAC, deprivation, refugees, asylum seekers and migrants) to deliver targetedpreventative actions.
Thurrock has areas of significant deprivation within the borough, where more than 1 in 5children under 16 grow up in poverty (21.2%). 6% of children in parts of Grays are living inpoverty, and 56.4% of children in parts of Tilbury are living in poverty.
These factors impact the health and wellbeing of families and Thurrock has the highestincidence of admissions to hospital for dental extractions in children and young peopleand the lowest rates of dental access for 017-year-olds, with the highest prevalence of dentaldecay in 5-year-olds in East of England Region.
This role will co-ordinate the operational activities on the two-year programme which will focuson supervised tooth brushing through the Family Hubs and across education. The target agegroup for this programme is pre-school and reception to year 3, through 10 programmes ofactivity (these programmes to be run simultaneously).
The aim of the programme is to accelerate areas for improvement in reducing oral healthinequalities across MSE, focussing on activities in Thurrock and ensuring that the benefits andlearning are embedded across Mid & South Essex ICS footprint.
Identify opportunities to implement oral health prevention strategies into current children &young people workstreams and work with ICB teams and stakeholder partners to increaseaccess to dental services.
The role will sit within the Thurrock Alliance Team and will report to the Early Years Oral healthProgramme Support Manager.
COMPETENCY BASED KEY DELIVERABLES
- Responsible for decisions made during the course of duties, seeking guidance and escalating issues where appropriate
- Assist with the delivery of programme plans and workstreams, as directed by line manager and raising any issues with delivery to line manager
- Supervision of less experienced team members
- Responsible for the monitoring of one or more budgets
- Co-ordination of a complex series of planned activities, ensuring that delivery remains on track and within agreed timescales.
- Build effective and sustainable working relationships with a broad range of system partners within the Thurrock area.
- Contribute to the strategic aims of the programme and development of a series of metrics and outcome measures.
- Report writing for formal boards within the governance of the programme
- Develop and deliver Community Engagement and Co-Production Events.
- Work with Family Hubs, Education, and partners to provide diet advice for families.
- Co-ordinate and deliver the supervised tooth brushing initiative.
- Work with communications teams on all communications, advice campaigns and information leaflets.
- Co-ordinate and deliver the Train the Trainer Model.
- Able to attend meetings and other evets as required across Mid & South Essex as agreed with the Programme Support Manager and approved by the Delivery and Engagement Manager.
- Deputise for EYOH Programme Support Manager as agreed with the Programme Support Manager and approved by the Delivery and Engagement Manager.
Person Specification
Skills
Essential
- Advanced IT skills in Microsoft applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
- High level of attention to detail
- Ability to managing own workload, working to deadlines with minimal supervision
- Ability to analyse data from databases to present summary results and/or draw conclusions
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in a service focused environment
- Experience of providing senior level administrative and project support and developing and implementing administrative systems
- Experience of managing incoming and outgoing information requirements, handling correspondence/queries which may be complex, sensitive or highly confidential
Knowledge / understanding
Essential
- Knowledge of administrative systems and procedures
- Understanding of practices within required field of work
- Can demonstrate and deliver business acumen in their area of responsibility ensuring value for money
Partnership Working / Leadership Management
Essential
- Challenges within remit of the role and escalates appropriately where these principles are at risk of not being upheld
- Professional and approachable manner
- Good communicator, with ability to liaise with colleagues at all levels
- Ability to work as part of a team or independently
- Ability to work in a collaborative way across organisational/sector boundaries in order to achieve the highest quality outcomes for patients
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or equivalent level of experience in relevant role OR Diploma plus evidence of additional training/experience to support the requirements of the role
Other
Essential
- Personal qualities of honesty and integrity
- Possess a positive attitude
- Ability to travel to attend meetings and attend for work at several locations, including home, for the purpose of hybrid working
Person Specification
Skills
Essential
- Advanced IT skills in Microsoft applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
- High level of attention to detail
- Ability to managing own workload, working to deadlines with minimal supervision
- Ability to analyse data from databases to present summary results and/or draw conclusions
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in a service focused environment
- Experience of providing senior level administrative and project support and developing and implementing administrative systems
- Experience of managing incoming and outgoing information requirements, handling correspondence/queries which may be complex, sensitive or highly confidential
Knowledge / understanding
Essential
- Knowledge of administrative systems and procedures
- Understanding of practices within required field of work
- Can demonstrate and deliver business acumen in their area of responsibility ensuring value for money
Partnership Working / Leadership Management
Essential
- Challenges within remit of the role and escalates appropriately where these principles are at risk of not being upheld
- Professional and approachable manner
- Good communicator, with ability to liaise with colleagues at all levels
- Ability to work as part of a team or independently
- Ability to work in a collaborative way across organisational/sector boundaries in order to achieve the highest quality outcomes for patients
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or equivalent level of experience in relevant role OR Diploma plus evidence of additional training/experience to support the requirements of the role
Other
Essential
- Personal qualities of honesty and integrity
- Possess a positive attitude
- Ability to travel to attend meetings and attend for work at several locations, including home, for the purpose of hybrid working
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.
