We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes, health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers. Job overview To deliver oral health education and promotion programmes, providing advice and resources to a broad spectrum of clients, including groups of the population and individuals and to develop materials for use in oral health education. To facilitate supervised toothbrushing clubs in SEND schools and nurseries and obtain relevant data under the direction of the oral health promotion manager. Support the Specialist in Paediatric Dentistry in the delivery of the fluoride varnish programme in clinic and Specialist Schools. Advert To maintain and develop partnership working within early years settings to improve oral health. To communicate and liaise with early year providers, health promotion staff and others involved in organisation and delivery of oral health promotion programmes. To have the ability to support children, young people and families regarding concerns about their oral health. To support children, young people and families through evidence-based programmes, partnership approach and referrals to evidence-based services. To provide training, resources and information to SEND settings taking part in a supervised toothbrushing club. To extend Supervised toothbrushing clubs to SEND schools. To provide these schools and nurseries extra support to set up a supervised toothbrushing club by delivering launch events. Support the Specialist in Paediatric Dentistry in the delivery of the fluoride varnish programme in clinic and Specialist Schools. To Provide detailed information on activities including STB clubs, ‘take home’ packs and fluoride varnish programme in SEND schools. To provide training and oral health support to children with additional needs and those not in education and foster care/children’s homes and their parent/carer. Working for our organisation You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives. The Oral Health Promotion Team provides an oral health improvement programme in Sheffield to improve oral health for our local communities and reduce inequalities particularly of children and young people and vulnerable adults. The oral health team work within a range of settings through partnerships between health, local authorities and the voluntary independent sector. The Community and Special Care Dental Service is the main provider of special care dentistry in Sheffield. The service provides dental care in community settings for children and adults who have difficulty accessing dental treatment in general dental practice or who require special care dentistry on a referral basis. Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post. When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria. This vacancy is advertised on a fixed term contract basis for a period of twelve months due to the post being externally funded. The fixed term contract status of the post holder will be reviewed in accordance with the Trust's legal obligations regarding fixed term contracts taking into consideration the ongoing source of the external funding and the requirement for the post to be maintained. All existing NHS staff will only be considered on a secondment basis. Please also note any secondment must first be agreed with your current line manager. Please note that in order to comply with the UK Government’s rules on Skilled Worker sponsorship, any applicants who do not meet the eligibility requirements or concessions on salary thresholds under the Skilled Worker visa will not be eligible to receive sponsorship from the Trust. Please keep this in mind when submitting your application. Further details on these concessions, and who qualifies for them, can be found here. 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In addition, in submitting an application form, you authorise our Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed. Please note, all communication regarding your application will be made via email sent via the Trac recruitment system, please ensure you check your junk/spam folders as emails are sometimes filtered there. The Trust is committed to its obligations in accordance with the Equality Act 2010, and we positively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Should you require any assistance in applying for the position please contact the General or Medical Human Resources Departments on the number identified on the NHS Jobs page for the organisation. Job Share applicants are welcome for all full time posts unless indicated but cannot be guaranteed. In addition for Fixed Term Contracts, internal secondments may be considered, please seek the approval of your current line manager before applying for the position. 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