Oral Health Practitioner
Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation TrustThe Trust is currently under-represented in terms of individuals from BME backgrounds and welcomes applicants from these communities. DCHS is also an LGBT inclusive employer. Selection will be on a basis of merit. The Trust has achieved the status of a Disability Confident Leader and guarantees to invite to assessment applicants who meet the criteria for the job vacancy. To ensure the diversity of the workforce and understand the differing needs of our communities, the Trust is committed to the principles of Positive Action.
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Job overview
Oral Health Promotion is a commissioned service from Derbyshire County Council and sits within the Children’s Specialist Service within Derbyshire Community Health Services Trust.
The role of the oral health improvement practitioner is to implement local oral health improvement strategies by providing a range of activities to specific population groups with identified oral health needs across Derbyshire County and for this role Derby City. It will broaden the scope of oral health promotion in the wider community by working in collaborative partnerships across sectors, agencies, and organizations in the development of oral health initiatives.
Oral Health Promotion is a commissioned service from Derbyshire County Council and sits within the Children’s Specialist Service within Derbyshire Community Health Services Trust. The focus of this role will be in the planning, delivery, maintenance and evaluation of a new Supervised Toothbrushing Programme City Smiles (Smile4Life) for 3 to 5 year olds in early years settings across all Derby City Localities - including nurseries and primary schools. The base for this role will be at Walton hospital, there is scope for some agile work within this role.
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Your role will be primarily to lead in the implementation of the Government manifesto promise to reduce tooth decay and improve oral health outcomes by delivering a new City Smiles (Smile4lIfe) Supervised Toothbrushing Programme in up to 102 Early Years settings, travelling from our base at Walton Hospital to the settings all in Derby City.
This will include signing up settings to take part in the City Smiles (Smile4Life) toothbrushing programme. Training staff. Collecting stock from a holding hub then delivering and maintaining the stock at each setting. Additionally managing the quality assurance and ongoing support for each setting to ensure robust delivery of the programme.
Engage with the community at occasional events to promote the service and offer brief intervention support to clients and staff.
To produce expanded public information using a variety of presentation formats and experience of using digital platforms eg, MS TEAMS.
Working for our organisation
Our purpose is to provide community health services to a patient population of over one million people in Derbyshire, as part of Joined Up Care Derbyshire.
We employ around 4,200 substantive staff, caring for patients in 11 community hospitals, and more than 30 health centres, as well as in clinics, GP practices, schools, care homes and, increasingly, in peoples own homes and via virtual consultations.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust (DCHS) is one of the largest providers of specialist community healthcare in England and we currently employ around 4,500 staff. We deliver a variety of services across Derbyshire, caring for nearly 1.8 million patients each year.
We deliver patient care through 11 community hospitals, 4 minor injury units, 29 health centres and a learning disability centre. Another key part of our service is out in the community where we care for people in their own homes via therapists, health visitors and district nurses, and promoting public health in the wider community. As a Trust we care for patients of all ages with a special focus on the needs of elderly people and the very young.
DCHS has been recognised as a top 10 NHS organisation to work for in the UK by the Health Service Journal and NHS Employers in their Best Places to Work 2015 campaign. The Trust is also the runner-up in the category for the best NHS community trust employer.
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Our vision “to be the best provider of local healthcare and to be a great place to work”
Our values:
1) To get the basics right
2) To act with compassion and respect
3) To make a difference
4) To value and develop teamwork
5) To value everyone’s contribution because everyone matters
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