Mouth Care Trainer | Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 02 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £27,485 - £30,162 pro rata, per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 August 2025 |
| Location: | North Shields, NE29 8NH |
| Company: | Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7292786/319-7292786KD |
Summary
In March 2025, the Government announced they are working with the NHS to expand access to supervised toothbrushing programmes and the inclusion of oral health education. Northumbria NHS Foundation Trust’s mouth care training requirements have increased as the service moves to support schools in the local area. An exciting opportunity has arisen for 2 fixed term posts to support the provision of mouth care training and education.
The post holders will:
· support the Mouth Care Lead Dental Nurse / Trainer to provide training and educational support on mouth care and oral hygiene.
· promote approved mouth care products
· support the delivery of an evidence-based training programme across the Northumbria footprint in a range of hospital and community settings.
• role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a)engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
· To support the delivery of established mouth care training programmes to a range of staff (clinical and non-clinical) across acute and community settings
· Support the Mouth Care Lead Dental Nurse / Trainer to provide staff, patients, carers, parents, guardians and their families (in acute and community settings) with general oral health advice e.g. how to access dental care, treatment for dry mouth.
· Travel is required across the Northumbria Trust footprint.
· Working in a variety of settings – health centres, primary care networks, schools, hospitals and community settings.
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! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
To support the Mouth Care Lead Dental Nurse / Trainer to provide training and educational support on mouth care and oral hygiene.
To promote oral health with the organisation by empowering healthcare professionals to provide effective mouth care. This will include training and education for staff, prioritising the assessment of patients' needs, and ensuring safe and compassionate mouth care delivery.
To promote approved mouth care products
To support the delivery of an evidence-based training programme across the Northumbria foot print in a range of hospital and community settings.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries
This advert closes on Wednesday 16 Jul 2025
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