Job summary
Are you a dedicated and caring Dental Therapist in the Surrey area? Are you looking to join an NHS Health and Social Care partner which is striving to make positive changes? Would you like to work for an organisation where more than 9 out of every ten 10 of the people who use services would recommend them?
As a valued member of the team, you will be working part-time over 3 days a week, and travel between 3 of our Dental Clinics: Staines, Tattenham and Leatherhead.
Well offer you a competitive salary including pension, on-going training and development.
Youll access our central online health and lifestyle platform covering healthy recipes, activity challenges, and support information around mental health. All this, and flexible working patterns to help support your work/life balance.
Our Service
HCRG Care Group is a Surrey based specialist dental referral service, providing routine dental care for children and adults, who due to a variety of special needs are unable to have those needs met in a General Dental Practice.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a Dental Therapist to join our Surrey Community Dental Service to help us continue to change things for the better. The position is based in Wokingwith some travel to other clinics within our service.
You will require a Full UK Driving License and access to a car.
About us
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services.Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2
Job description
Job responsibilities
The successful candidate will demonstrate a caring approach to patients, be well organised, flexible in their approach to work and have the ability to work well as part of a team as well as on their own. They must be forward thinking, self-motivated as well as be able to motivate others within their team.
You will require a Full UK Driving License and access to a car.
You will have a full current registration with the GDC as well as a Dental Therapist qualification and with strong communication and organisation skills, and a flexible approach will ensure you deliver positive experiences to patients at every stage of their healthcare journey.
We will also be looking for:
- Experience of providing dental care to children and adults with special care needs, desirable but not essential
- Experience of providing dental care to people with challenging behaviour
- Experience of providing clinical care in a Community Dental Service, desirable but not essential
- Familiarity with Carestream R4 software
- Experience of treating patients under inhalation sedation, desirable but not essential, training to be given
- Experience of involvement in community-based oral health prevention and promotion programmes
- Good interpersonal skills
- Understanding of Clinical Governance
- Broad range of clinical skills in care of children and adults
- Ability to deal with patients' needs in a caring and sensitive manner
- Knowledge of oral health promotion and preventive strategies
- Knowledge of good practice, clinical developments and evidence- based dentistry in dental therapy
Please see the attached job description for a full list of responsibilities
As a Dental Therapist, youll be part of our valued team atWoking
You will feel valued as a Dental Therapistwithin HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £35,392 -£42,618with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- *An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- *The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with 100% of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission
Job description
Job responsibilities
The successful candidate will demonstrate a caring approach to patients, be well organised, flexible in their approach to work and have the ability to work well as part of a team as well as on their own. They must be forward thinking, self-motivated as well as be able to motivate others within their team.
You will require a Full UK Driving License and access to a car.
You will have a full current registration with the GDC as well as a Dental Therapist qualification and with strong communication and organisation skills, and a flexible approach will ensure you deliver positive experiences to patients at every stage of their healthcare journey.
We will also be looking for:
- Experience of providing dental care to children and adults with special care needs, desirable but not essential
- Experience of providing dental care to people with challenging behaviour
- Experience of providing clinical care in a Community Dental Service, desirable but not essential
- Familiarity with Carestream R4 software
- Experience of treating patients under inhalation sedation, desirable but not essential, training to be given
- Experience of involvement in community-based oral health prevention and promotion programmes
- Good interpersonal skills
- Understanding of Clinical Governance
- Broad range of clinical skills in care of children and adults
- Ability to deal with patients' needs in a caring and sensitive manner
- Knowledge of oral health promotion and preventive strategies
- Knowledge of good practice, clinical developments and evidence- based dentistry in dental therapy
Please see the attached job description for a full list of responsibilities
As a Dental Therapist, youll be part of our valued team atWoking
You will feel valued as a Dental Therapistwithin HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £35,392 -£42,618with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- *An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- *The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with 100% of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission
Person Specification
General Requirements
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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.
