Band 7 Tutor Dental Hygienist and TherapistNHS

Job summary

The appointment will be as a Tutor Dental Hygienist and Therapist for up to 30 hours per week. The contract will be with Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

The principal duties are to facilitate learning and to teach the knowledge and clinical skills required by students of Dental Hygiene and Therapy. They will advise, demonstrate, and instruct on the dental clinic, and in the clinical simulation suite, and be responsible for the care provided by students when treating patients. The tutor will deliver teaching in a variety of formats, e.g. lecture, workshop, tutorial and small group teaching.

Main duties of the job

The principal duties are to facilitate learning and to teach the knowledge and clinical skills required by students of Dental Hygiene and Therapy. They will advise, demonstrate, and instruct on the dental clinic, and in the clinical simulation suite, and be responsible for the care provided by students when treating patients. The tutor will deliver teaching in a variety of formats, e.g. lecture, workshop, tutorial and small group teaching.

Each tutor is assigned as a personal tutor to designated students; this will involve counselling the students in a variety of areas, such as academic progress and performance, and offering pastoral support.The tutor has an important role in monitoring students who have academic or clinical weaknesses, demonstrating empathy, and offering reassurance.

Job description

The attached detailed Job description and main responsibilities identify the requirements of the post which are both clinical and teaching responsibilities including assessment, alongside student support.

About us

Be Part of Our Team...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 and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab 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.

If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.