Dental Therapist/Hygienist - (Maternity Leave Cover)

Job summary

Details of the Post

The post holder will be expected to work with consultants and other colleagues within Restorative Dentistry to provide oral health education, periodontal treatment, reassessment, and patient discharge. A large proportion of the patients seen will have undergone head and neck radiotherapy, and the others are medically compromised, anxious children and adult patients with developmental disorders such as cleft lip and palate, trauma patients and patients who have undergone other oncology treatments. Under the supervision of the consultant in restorative dentistry. The hygienist will be responsible for correspondence relating to the clinics ensuring appropriate communication with referring practitioners.

These responsibilities will be supervised by clinicians within the department.

The post holder will work within a team to provide a high-quality clinical service within the framework and facilities provided. The post holder will support the department in managing and delivering 18-week pathways.

Main duties of the job

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Full mouth charting and treatment planning under the supervision of Consultants in Restorative Dentistry.
• Patient review, assessment, and discharge, under the supervision of Consultants in Restorative Dentistry.
• Be responsible for correspondence with general dental practitioners and other teams within the Trust.
• Dispensing of oral hygiene aids to patients and provide specialist clinical advice.

About us

With nearly9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.