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Band 7 Dental Staff therapist | Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 29 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £43,742 - £50,056 per annum/pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 28 August 2024 |
| Location: | Birmingham, B5 7EG |
| Company: | Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6460448/820-6460448-DEN |
Summary
To provide specialist clinical care and preventative treatment without direct supervision to patients attending the specialist Dental Hospital services for secondary or tertiary care. To carry out dental treatment on these patients to a level of competence as directed by the Dental Act and its amendments.
Main contact is with hospital staff and patients. Patient groups as a priority are adults and children with special needs, including medically compromised patients, anxious patients and patients with challenging behaviour.
• Carrying out the full range of treatments currently permitted under the General Dental Council regulations.
• Specific duties may only be undertaken if trained and competent to do so.
• Treatment may be carried out within hospital dental departments and wards or by domiciliary treatment visits, if necessary
Treatment is provided following a prescribed course of treatment as directed by a registered dentist. Any combination of the following duties may be performed on a daily basis.
Permitted duties of the Dental Hygienist:
Education of patients on the causes and prevention of periodontal diseases and dental caries.
Identification of risk factors for the dental diseases, including medical and social risk factors and the provision of appropriate counselling advice, including:-
Medical history
• Diet analysis and nutritional guidance
• Advice in the use of fluoride agents
• The benefits of smoking cessation and accessing cessation service
Motivate patients to maintain a high standard of oral hygiene.
Monitor patients’ progress using appropriate indices:-
• Bleeding and plaque indices
• Detailed pocket charting
• Mobility index
• Furcation index
Perform supra- and subgingival scaling of teeth including polishing, allowing removal of hard and soft deposits and stains.
The provision of comprehensive specialist periodontal invasive root debridement therapy using Gracey area curettes and high-speed ultrasonic device.
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.
• Please ensure you check yourTRAC account regularlyas this is how we will communicate with you during the shortlisting and selection process.
• Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully. Please particularly ensure that you provide full details of all referees includingBUSINESS EMAIL ADDRESS, telephone contact details and postal address
General Duties
• To be fully conversant with basic first aid and resuscitation techniques, attending regular training.
• Comply with local rules relating to radiography, IRMER and the Dental Radiographic Quality Assurance Audit Policy.
• Comply with the departmental and Trust policy on the control of infection.
• Assess new instruments in terms of performance and feedback evaluations.
• Adhere to Trust policy on Manual Handling, participating in mandatory training.
• Actively participate in Team Briefing meetings and peer group reviews.
• Participate in the training of other grades of Trust staff as required.
• Participate in activities related to the promotion of quality of service, including schemes for clinical audit and standard setting.
• Participate in such continuing professional development and training that may be necessary for personal development, as identified jointly with the head of the service.
• Ensure effective and efficient use of resources.
• Agree personal objectives related to the delivery of the service. Agree and manage time effectively to ensure that the workload is scheduled and completed on time.
• Administrative duties include monitoring of referrals and managing appointments directly with patients and reception staff.
• Monitor personal workload and communicate to clinical lead periodic variations in service requirements
• Support the clinical team in reviewing services and implementing service developments, proposing changes and innovations
• Contribute to the development, interpretation, implementation, and review of national and local policies as well as the service’s policies, procedures and standard.
• To undertake other duties commensurate with this grade of post in agreement with the relevant line manager.
To minimise the Trust’s environmental impact wherever possible, including recycling, switching off lights, computers, monitors and equipment when not in use. Helping to reduce paper waste by minimising printing/copying and reducing water usage, reporting faults and heating/cooling concerns promptly and minimising travel. Where the role includes the ordering and use of supplies or equipment the post holder will consider the environmental impact of purchases.
This advert closes on Monday 12 Aug 2024