Band 5 Oral Health Improvement Practitioner

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; West Midlands Combined Authority; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A community healthcare provider in Birmingham is seeking an Oral Health Improvement Team member to deliver evidence-based oral health interventions and improve health outcomes within local communities. Candidates must have a certificate or diploma in oral health promotion, experience in delivering relevant programmes, and be GDC registered. This position offers the opportunity to work in a supportive environment with a focus on integrated care.

Qualifications

• Certificate/Diploma in oral health promotion.
• Experience delivering oral health improvement programmes.
• GDC registration.

Responsibilities

• Deliver evidence-based oral health interventions.
• Plan oral health improvement interventions.
• Manage targeted toothbrushing resources.

Job description

Hours: 1.5 WTE hours to be negotiated, working across Birmingham or the Black Country.

Location: Based within locality clinic in Birmingham or the Black Country.

Contract: Substantive

The Oral Health Improvement Service is a commissioned service within the Dental Division of Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. The purpose of the Oral Health Improvement Team is to deliver evidence based, oral health interventions to reduce the inequalities in oral health, working across organisational boundaries within Birmingham & the Black Country.

If you have a certificate/Diploma in oral health promotion, experience of delivering oral health improvement programmes and enjoy working with communities to improve oral health outcomes, then joining this new team might be the job for you.

You will be expected to be GDC registered to work within a team to contribute to the planning of oral health improvement interventions, the delivery of workforce development training, supervised toothbrushing programmes, Mouth Care Matters programmes, management of targeted toothbrushing resources and other evidence based interventions and evaluation.

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

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Stacey Quinton Job title: Oral Health Improvement Team Lead Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 0121 683 2315

For further information and enquires please see the contact details below:

Stacey Quinton - Oral Health Improvement Team Lead - [e-mail]

or

Gemma Webb - Epidemiology & Oral Health Improvement Administrator - [e-mail]