Dental Health Support Worker

7 months ago


Glasgow, United Kingdom NHS Scotland Full time

This is a great opportunity to join the multi-disciplinary team in the Community and support families by promoting general health and well-being. To work within the family home/community, to promote oral health and facilitate access to oral health promotion and dental preventative/treatment programmes.

The Childsmile programme is tasked with reducing inequalities in oral health and ensuring access to dental services for every child across Lanarkshire.

A key role is to educate and promote awareness of oral health issues and to help deliver new initiatives in compliance with national requirements or as directed by the Childsmile Coordinator.

KNOWLEDGE, TRAINING AND/OR EXPERIENCE REQUIRED TO DO THE JOB
- SVQ III in Health Care, or working towards, or equivalent experience working within a caring environment/ role
- Ability to work with people as part of a multidisciplinary/ agency team
- Ability to carry out assigned patient care and tasks effectively within a busy environment
- Ability to work unsupervised
- Good communication(spoken and written) & interpersonal skills
- A flexible and adaptable approach to work.
- Good organisational and administration skills
- Must have a valid full driving licence

‘In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.
- Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children’s setting/secure unit.’

Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.

Please note for all vacancies where a driving licence is required this must be a full UK/EU/EEA licence

NHS Lanarkshire Recruitment Website

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