About this role
Job summary
Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Permanent
All applications must go through the Leicester City Council Website, applications through the NHS jobs site will not be considered.
Play a key role in ensuring that people living in the city are supported to have good oral health.
Join our small yet but dedicated team to facilitate the promotion of good oral health to all living within Leicester City. Our service aim to reduce health inequalities between different populations in Leicester by understanding the barriers faced by communities and working with them to overcome them. As part of the Oral Health Promotion Service within the Public Health team, youll encourage settings such as nurseries, pre-schools, childminders, primary schools and others, particularly those in areas of high deprivation to participate in the Supervised Toothbrushing Programme.
Based either at home or at City Hall, youll be positively contributing to the maintenance and uptake of the supervised toothbrushing programme, whilst contributing to a wide range of oral health promotion activities.
This is a full time, permanent, working 37 hours per week over 5 days, with the ability to work occasionally outside normal office hours, e.g. for meetings, training delivery, parents evenings, events, etc. Youll have flexibility in hybrid working being both office based, at City Hall or working remotely from home.
Main duties of the job
What youll be doing
Youll work with early years providers and schools within Leicester to promote the supervised toothbrushing programme. Youll provide guidance and governance to those already participating in the programme, including the provision of additional promotional activities within their setting. You will also engage with early years providers and schools who do not participate in the supervised toothbrushing programme in a targeted manner. You will also provide ongoing support via training, phone calls, emails and in person visits.
Youll engage with key stakeholders including dental practices, public health teams, NHS organisations and Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise organisations to raise awareness of oral health issues and deliver the oral health programmes in the city. Youll conduct training sessions to explain health concepts, ensuring they are engaged and understand the key messages. Youll also support the team to develop and promote key national campaigns.
About us
What we can offer you
As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. Youll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working. Well also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from several flexible benefits, including discounts on city buses and trains. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.
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Were committed to recruiting a diverse and highly-talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. Thats why weve designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. Well do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, take a look at the our approach to recruitment page.
Job description Job responsibilities
Collaboration: Engage with key stakeholders and local communities to ensure that key oral health promoting messages are imparted and understood by the local population in key stages of life. Develop effective relationships with early years providers, schools and other venues to encourage the participation of the Supervised Toothbrushing programme, including oral health promotion with children, parents and carers. Work in partnership with key stakeholders on delivering and evaluating the success of national campaigns that promote and raise awareness of oral health issues. Work across agencies to provide training for all frontline workforce and ensure that oral health brief advice is delivered by general healthcare, social care and voluntary care professionals and workers. Deliver oral health messages to vulnerable groups across the community as agreed with key stakeholders, visiting groups in harder to reach organisations and areas, for example in nursing/care/residential homes, schools/childrens centres and community groups. 10% Contribute to raising awareness of oral health issues by engaging with key stakeholders and partners such as dentists, schools, childrens centres and elderly persons homes 10% Initiate monitor and evaluate accreditation schemes for early years settings, schools, nursing and residential homes. 10% Develop persuasive materials and resources to gain support for oral health promotion delivery and activities. These include power point presentations, posters, leaflets, worksheets, practical activities/games. Establish Oral Health Promotion Networks to ensure up-to-date messages and information are available and engender partnership working on common issues and campaigns. Develop effective neighbourhood-based networks to build awareness of oral health issues including establishing and training community based oral health champions. Supervising People Allocate to and oversee work carried out by allocated temporary staff/volunteers. in the context of this leadership: Job Title: Oral Health Promoter Job No: SC924 Division: Public Health Service: Public Health Team/Section: IMPACT Responsible to: Public Health Project Manager Overall Purpose of Role: Through engagement with key stakeholders and local communities the post holders will facilitate the promotion of good oral health within local communities through training, health promotion, information sharing, communication and face to face activities. The post holder will facilitate the uptake and maintenance of the supervised toothbrushing programme. + in the context of supervising the work of temporarily assigned staff/volunteers/external contracted staff: To provide decisive and effective leadership to team(s) in line with the councils Vision & Values and Leadership Qualities that enables them to do their best work resulting in high levels of people and organisational performance. Involve team/s in creating a shared purpose to help them develop and achieve results. Give clear direction. Explore and understand the views of the team and adapt style and behaviour as necessary to ensure positive outcomes. Show respect for the views of others by recognising their contribution and valuing diversity. Inspire team/s by creating opportunities to be creative and innovative, supporting team development and encouraging autonomy to enable team(s) to do their best work. Develop positive trusting relationships within and outside the team, treating people with fairness and respect. Carry out other miscellaneous tasks associated with the role.
Person Specification
Experience Essential
Experience of providing oral health promotion in a community setting. Experience of working well as part of a team to deliver a quality service and achieve shared objectives whilst using excellent interpersonal & communication skills Experience of planning and successfully delivery projects / campaigns in a community setting.
Qualifications Essential
Qualified and General Dental Council (GDC) registered Dental Nurse Full UK Driving License
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.
Employer details Employer name Leicester City Council
Address 115 Charles Street
Leicester
LE1 1FZ
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://jobs.leicester.gov.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)