Responsibilities include assessing and planning treatment options, ensuring compliance with Trust values and clinical governance, and effectively communicating treatment plans to patients. The successful candidate must be GDC registered, maintain high clinical standards, and participate in their own professional development. An understanding of the unique needs of patients with anxiety and disabilities is essential, as is the ability to foster a respectful and dignified environment. While a qualification in inhalation sedation is desirable, it is not mandatory for applicants.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a caring, dedicated, adaptable and self-motivated Qualified Dental Therapist who has excellent personal, communication and clinical skills and works well within a team environment to join our team across the West & South sector of the Greater Manchester Dental Network in Leigh and Pemberton.
The post holder will provide a wide range of clinical dental therapy, oral health promotion and preventative oral health care including all extended duties appropriate to a registered dental therapist, as requested by dentists within the service. The work will be carried out primarily within clinics but may include domiciliary care. Patients will include adults and children with additional needs, and patients with learning and physical disabilities.
A qualification in inhalation sedation is desirable but not essential.
Applicants must be GDC registered.
Maintain high level of clinical work
Work to the prescription of a dental officer and liaise with them in the patient's best interest
Treat patient's and colleagues with dignity and respect
Comply with the Trust values
Ensure compliance with clinical governance
Work as part of a team
Comply with the mental capacity act
Comply with Trust mandatory training
Liaise with other health care professional e.g. safeguarding leads, health visitors, social workers
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Provide a full range of extensive treatments preventative, restorative and surgical in accordance with General Dental Council guidelines and current legislation, policies and procedures.
There is a continual requirement to reconsider treatment options as work progresses e.g. a tooth requiring a different treatment than was predicted, problems with patient co-operation.
Plan the appropriate order of treatment, implement, interpret / refine as treatment progresses to final discharge.
Discuss specific treatment plans, if appropriate, analyse patient information and adapt for individual needs.
Use of communication and interpersonal skills to ensure that consent has been obtained, the patient has full understanding of the treatment options and that they understand the role of the dental therapist.
Refer patients to other dental professionals as treatment determines.
Provide information and practical advice as appropriate for oral health needs of individuals to enable them to improve and maintain good oral health.
Assess, monitor and adapt clinical needs as required to meet needs and capabilities of individual patients. Raise awareness of patients own responsibility regarding treatment outcome and long term benefits.
Treat patient groups including children and adults and those with multiple complex needs. Understand the needs of patients with anxiety and disabilities and carry out their treatment accordingly.
Decide how to implement the overall treatment plan, taking into account the medical and psychological needs of the patient.
Ensure CPD needs are met by actively participating in the PDR annual review using same as a basis for discussion to identify training needs
Identify own training needs and how best to achieve these ensuring Continuing Professional Development is updated and mandatory training is undertaken and recorded.
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