Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- 12 months (fixed term)
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-7292786KD
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Tyneside General Hospital
- Town
- North Shields
- Salary
- £27,485 - £30,162 pro rata, per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Mouth Care Trainer
NHS AfC: Band 4
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Job overview
In March 2025, the Government announced they are working with the NHS to expand access to supervised toothbrushing programmes and the inclusion of oral health education. Northumbria NHS Foundation Trust’s mouth care training requirements have increased as the service moves to support schools in the local area. An exciting opportunity has arisen for 2 fixed term posts to support the provision of mouth care training and education.
The post holders will:
· support the Mouth Care Lead Dental Nurse / Trainer to provide training and educational support on mouth care and oral hygiene.
· promote approved mouth care products
· support the delivery of an evidence-based training programme across the Northumbria footprint in a range of hospital and community settings.
- role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a)engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Main duties of the job
· To support the delivery of established mouth care training programmes to a range of staff (clinical and non-clinical) across acute and community settings
· Support the Mouth Care Lead Dental Nurse / Trainer to provide staff, patients, carers, parents, guardians and their families (in acute and community settings) with general oral health advice e.g. how to access dental care, treatment for dry mouth.
· Travel is required across the Northumbria Trust footprint.
· Working in a variety of settings – health centres, primary care networks, schools, hospitals and community settings.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To support the Mouth Care Lead Dental Nurse / Trainer to provide training and educational support on mouth care and oral hygiene.
To promote oral health with the organisation by empowering healthcare professionals to provide effective mouth care. This will include training and education for staff, prioritising the assessment of patients' needs, and ensuring safe and compassionate mouth care delivery.
To promote approved mouth care products
To support the delivery of an evidence-based training programme across the Northumbria foot print in a range of hospital and community settings.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registration with either the General Dental Council (GDC), Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) or Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
Desirable criteria
- Teaching/training qualification
- Qualification in health promotion/public health
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Professional, clinical knowledge acquired through training
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving license and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sharon Harrison
- Job title
- NMAHP Education & Development Lead - Post Reg
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07814632050
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