Main area Dental Nurse Grade NHS AfC: Band 5 Contract 12 months (This is fixed term due to funding available) Hours
37.5 hours per week (Flexible and part-time working options will be considered. Successful delivery of the contractual obligations of the scheme will need to be maintained.) Job ref VD-A
Site North Tyneside General Hospital Town North Shields Salary £32,073 - £39,043 pro rata per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 25/10/ :59
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
We work closely with Kids First Nurseries that are based within our trust grounds at Wansbeck, North Tyneside and Hexham hospitals to care for our Trust family's children, they offer care for children from 6 weeks old up to 4 years. There are a number of funding options run by the government to help working parents, including Early Years Funding and Tax Free Childcare.
Flexible working offers choice in where, when, and how we work, ensuring patients remain at the heart of all we do. It’s open to everyone, and we aim to find solutions that work for both you and the organisation. All arrangements must be reasonable and balanced to maintain safe and effective patient care.
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
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We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated healthcare professional to join our team as a Mouth Care Trainer on a 12-month fixed-term basis.
The post holder will play a key role in delivering the Supervised Tooth Brushing Scheme across schools within Northumberland and North Tyneside, supporting local authority commissioned programmes aimed at improving children's oral health and reducing health inequalities. Working alongside the Mouth Care Lead Dental Nurse/Trainer, the successful candidate will provide training, education and practical support to schools, families and education professionals to support the effective implementation of the scheme.
Whilst the primary focus of this role will be the delivery of the Supervised Tooth Brushing Scheme, the post holder will also contribute to the delivery of evidence-based mouth care education and training across health and community settings. Working as part of a small, supportive team, the post holder will provide cross-cover for colleagues during periods of annual leave, sickness absence and increased service demand to ensure continuity of training and service delivery.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
The post holder will primarily support the delivery of the Supervised Tooth Brushing Scheme across schools within Northumberland and North Tyneside. As part of the Mouth Care Team, they will contribute to oral health improvement initiatives aimed at reducing oral health inequalities and improving oral health outcomes for children and young people.
The post holder will provide training, education and practical support to schools and partner organisations to enable the successful implementation of the programme. The primary focus of this role will be the delivery of the Supervised Tooth Brushing Scheme within educational settings, whilst a companion Mouth Care Trainer role focuses predominantly on mouth care education and training within healthcare settings. Both post holders will work collaboratively to ensure continuity of service delivery and provide mutual support during periods of annual leave, sickness absence and increased service demand.
Contribute to the delivery of mouth care education and training programmes across healthcare and community settings.
Facilitate training sessions for clinical and non-clinical staff where required.
Promote approved mouth care products, resources and evidence-based practice.
Support healthcare professionals to develop confidence in assessing oral health needs and delivering safe, compassionate mouth care.
Work collaboratively with colleagues within the Mouth Care Team to provide cross-cover and support service resilience during periods of annual leave, sickness absence or increased service demand.
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and those who have been looked after by the care system as a child or young person (for example, in foster care, children's homes, kinship or local authority care) who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
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Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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