Dental Therapist | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 01 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 31 August 2025 |
| Location: | 317 Arthurs Hill Clinic, NE4 6BT |
| Company: | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7348067/317-2025-30-33-DR |
Summary
To provide safe holistic care to patients within the Community Dental Service and work within the teams to improve integrated, high quality service delivery.
• Interview date: Friday 29 August 2025
• 30 hours/week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
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Clinical:
• Provide full therapy service for patients of all ages who appropriately access Newcastle Community Service for advice or treatment.
• Provide and maintain a high standard of comprehensive dental care
Provide treatment where necessary either as sole treatment or part of a planned course of treatment.
Administrative
• Assess the competency of the dental undergraduate students using their electronic portfolios .
• Refer patients to the dental team to undertake any treatment which the Dental Act does not permit Dental Therapists to carry out, and ensuring appropriate use of skill mix.
• Ensure maintenance of accurate clinical records and respect for patient confidentiality and data protection.
• The post holder will be expected to be able to use all equipment required in the provision of dental care. The department uses a dental software ( sensei cloud) for electronic patient records and the post holder will need to be able to use this software once training is provided.
Research
• Participate in audit projects and clinical governate meetings together with other dentists working in the trust.
• Attend all compulsory health and safely lectures as required by the trust.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
• Freeman Hospital
• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service
• Cramlington Manor Walks
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Teaching
• Provide clinical teaching and supervision of undergraduate students who will be providing the following:
• The full scope of practice treatment for patients of all ages who appropriately access community dental service for advice or treatment.
• A full range of dental care for all groups in line with their experience and skill.
• Providing treatment where necessary as sole treatment or part of a planned course of treatment.
Job Purpose
• Highly trained healthcare professional carrying preventive oral health education tasks and clinical treatments within the scope of a dental therapist
• To provide a dental hygiene and therapy service to patients
• To actively promote dental health within the Newcastle Hospitals Foundation Trust.
• To teach the BSc students theory and practical skills.
• To mentor and counsel, the students.
This advert closes on Thursday 14 Aug 2025
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