Dental Therapist Clinical supervisor

King's College Hospital; Camden Town; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare trust in the UK seeks an individual to support the education and clinical supervision of student dental therapists and hygienists. This role involves maintaining quality service delivery, ensuring compliance with educational standards, and supporting a substantial patient database. Applicants should be ready to contribute to sustainability goals while enhancing patient care and education.

Responsibilities

• Support the clinical supervision of a patient database across various sites.
• Ensure compliance with General Dental Council learning outcomes.
• Contribute to meeting the standards of stakeholders.

Job description

Overview

The post holder will work as part of the team responsible for the education (clinical and academic) of student dental therapists/hygienists within the School of Dental Therapy and Hygiene (DTH) to meet the General Dental Council learning outcomes to become registrants (approximately 30 per year). The post holder will support the clinical supervision of a 6,000 per annum patient database across various sites and disciplines while maintaining the Trust's standards of quality in service delivery. This role supports meeting the standards and requirements of stakeholders such as the GDC Education quality assurance team and Kings College London.

Organisational context

The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our vision to be bold, with brilliant people, outstanding care, leaders in research, innovation and education, with diversity, equality and inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King’s to another level.

Strategic priorities

We are at a pivotal point in our history and require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people. King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone's contribution is required to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan, and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust's carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.