Band 5 Oral Health Improvement Practitioner | Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 29 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £31,049 - £37,796 pro rata for part time role |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 28 August 2025 |
| Location: | Birmingham/Black Country, B5 7EG |
| Company: | Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7371603/820-7371603-DEN |
Summary
Hours: 1.5 WTE hours to be negotiated, working across Birmingham or the Black Country.
Location: Based within locality clinic in Birmingham or the Black Country.
Contract: Substantive
The Oral Health Improvement Service is a commissioned service within the Dental Division of Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. The purpose of the Oral Health Improvement Team is to deliver evidence based, oral health interventions to reduce the inequalities in oral health, working across organisational boundaries within Birmingham & the Black Country.
If you have a certificate/Diploma in oral health promotion, experience of delivering oral health improvement programmes and enjoy working with communities to improve oral health outcomes, then joining this new team might be the job for you.
You will be expected to be GDC registered to work within a team to contribute to the planning of oral health improvement interventions, the delivery of workforce development training, supervised toothbrushing programmes, Mouth Care Matters programmes, management of targeted toothbrushing resources and other evidence based interventions and evaluation.
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
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for more detailed information.
If you would like additional information, please email the Oral Health Improvement Team Lead Stacey Quinton
Stacey.quinton@nhs.net
This advert closes on Friday 8 Aug 2025