Mouth Care Lead Dental Nurse/Trainer

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.

• Deliver the Supervised Tooth Brushing Scheme across participating schools within Northumberland and North Tyneside in line with programme requirements and agreed standards.
• Provide training, education and practical support to school staff to enable the successful implementation and sustainability of the scheme.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with schools, local authority colleagues and partner organisations.
• Coordinate the ordering, management and distribution of supervised toothbrushing resources, ensuring adequate supplies are available to support programme delivery.
• Deliver oral health promotion activities and evidence-based advice to children, parents, carers and education professionals.Support schools to promote positive oral health behaviours and reduce oral health inequalities.
• Maintain accurate records of programme activity and collect, analyse and report data to support monitoring, evaluation and contractual reporting requirements.
• Prepare and present activity and outcome information for local authority contract review meetings and other stakeholders.
• Contribute to the delivery of mouth care education and training across healthcare and community settings as required.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues within the Mouth Care Team to provide cross-cover during periods of annual leave, sickness absence and increased service demand.
• Travel across the Northumbria Healthcare footprint to deliver training, education and programme support.

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!

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sharon Harrison Job title: NMAHP Education & Development Lead- Post Reg Email address: Telephone number:

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