Dental Therapist/Hygienist Educator Lead

NHS; Ipswich; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000

Job description

Dental Therapist/Hygienist Educator Lead

Suffolk & North East Essex Training Hub is looking for an experienced dental therapist/hygienist with a passion for education and training to help build career pathways for the current workforce and create new and innovative placement opportunities to train and recruit future workforce.

This is a fixed term post for 12 months to work 2 days per week. This post will be remote working with some requirement to travel across Suffolk and north east Essex.

• Are you a qualified Dental Therapist/Hygienist with a passion for education and training?
• Do you want to make a difference for clinical dental workforce?
• Do you want to create an environment that is welcoming for newly recruited NHS Dental Professionals?
• Do you want to develop and deliver a retention programme for current NHS Dental professionals?

This post will work with the current team to develop initiatives to support dental practices to become learning organisations, increase student placements, develop education and training packages to provide career pathways and support retention and health and well-being.

As the dental therapist/hygienist lead for SNEE Training Hub, the postholder will work with a wide range of stakeholders to develop education, training and workforce initiatives to recruit and retain NHS dental professions. The aim being to increase access to NHS dental care for the local population.

Main duties of the job

Suffolk and North East Essex Training Hub are seeking a dental therapist/hygienist educator lead to join the team and help us make Suffolk and north east Essex the place to train and work as a NHS dental professional. This is a unique opportunity to develop and deliver education, training and workforce initiatives that will shape the dental workforce of today and tomorrow.

If you are an NHS dental therapist/hygienist with ideas and a passion for change this is the role for you! Please see the attached job and person specification for full details and contact Julie White: [e-mail] if you would like to find out more.

About us

We are committed to providing a supportive work environment where employees are able to work to the best of their abilities. We value professional development and care about the health and wellbeing of our staff with many initiatives in place to make us an employer of choice and an organisation that employees are proud to be part of.

SNEE Training Hub is entering its fifth year as an ICB hosted team focused on delivering an NHSE contract to provide education, training and placement support to primary care. The current focus is primary medical care. However, this knowledge, learning and skills can be extended to dental care and this post will provide clinical leadership to take these ambitions forwards.

Job responsibilities

If you would like to find out more information about this role, please see the attached job specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• A degree in Oral Health Sciences from a GDC approved programme or equivalent.
• Registration with GDC.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.