Oral Health Promoter

Salary: £29542.00 to £32046.00

Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Permanent

What youll be doing

Collaboration: Engage with key stakeholders and local communities to ensure that key oral health promoting
messages are imparted and understood by the local population in key stages of life.
Develop effective relationships with early years providers, schools and other venues to
encourage the participation of the Supervised Toothbrushing programme, including oral
health promotion with children, parents and carers.
Work in partnership with key stakeholders on delivering and evaluating the success of
national campaigns that promote and raise awareness of oral health issues.
Work across agencies to provide training for all frontline workforce and ensure that oral
health brief advice is delivered by general healthcare, social care and voluntary care
professionals and workers. Deliver oral health messages to vulnerable groups across the community as agreed with key
stakeholders, visiting groups in harder to reach organisations and areas, for example in
nursing/care/residential homes, schools/childrens centres and community groups.

10%
Contribute to raising awareness of oral health issues by engaging with key stakeholders and partners
such as dentists, schools, childrens centres and elderly persons homes
10%
Initiate monitor and evaluate accreditation schemes for early years settings, schools, nursing and
residential homes.
10%
Develop persuasive materials and resources to gain support for oral health promotion delivery and
activities. These include power point presentations, posters, leaflets, worksheets, practical
activities/games. Establish Oral Health Promotion Networks to ensure up-to-date messages and information are
available and engender partnership working on common issues and campaigns. Develop effective neighbourhood-based networks to build awareness of oral health issues including
establishing and training community based oral health champions. Supervising People
Allocate to and oversee work carried out by allocated temporary staff/volunteers. in the context of this leadership: Job Title: Oral Health Promoter Job No: SC924
Division: Public Health Service: Public Health
Team/Section: IMPACT Responsible to: Public Health Project Manager
Overall Purpose of Role:
Through engagement with key stakeholders and local communities the post holders will facilitate the
promotion of good oral health within local communities through training, health promotion, information
sharing, communication and face to face activities. The post holder will facilitate the uptake and
maintenance of the supervised toothbrushing programme.
+ in the context of supervising the work of temporarily assigned staff/volunteers/external contracted
staff:
To provide decisive and effective leadership to team(s) in line with the councils Vision & Values and
Leadership Qualities that enables them to do their best work resulting in high levels of people and
organisational performance.
Involve team/s in creating a shared purpose to help them develop and achieve results.
Give clear direction.
Explore and understand the views of the team and adapt style and behaviour as necessary to
ensure positive outcomes. Show respect for the views of others by recognising their contribution
and valuing diversity.
Inspire team/s by creating opportunities to be creative and innovative, supporting team
development and encouraging autonomy to enable team(s) to do their best work.
Develop positive trusting relationships within and outside the team, treating people with fairness
and respect.
Carry out other miscellaneous tasks associated with the role.