Band 7 Tutor Dental Hygienist and Therapist

This is a tutor post at Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, based in its dental school, for up to 30 hours a week. The tutor teaches dental hygiene and dental therapy students in the clinic and clinical simulation suite, and is responsible for the care students give patients. Teaching runs through lectures, workshops and small groups, alongside personal tutoring that includes pastoral support for students with academic or clinical weaknesses.

Current GDC registration and a degree in dental hygiene and therapy are required.

• Facilitate learning and teach the knowledge and clinical skills students of dental hygiene and therapy need
• Advise, demonstrate and instruct in the dental clinic and clinical simulation suite
• Be responsible for the care students provide when treating patients
• Deliver teaching through lectures, workshops, tutorials and small group sessions
• Act as personal tutor to designated students, counselling them on academic progress and offering pastoral support
• Monitor students with academic or clinical weaknesses, offering empathy and reassurance
• Carry out assessment as part of the clinical and teaching responsibilities

• Degree or equivalent in dental hygiene and dental therapy

• Current GDC registration
• Indemnity insurance

• Current clinical experience
• Wide range of clinical experience including restorative and periodontal procedures
• Clinical practice in general dental practice, salaried services or hospital dental services to supplement the post

• Good presentation and communication skills
• Competency in permitted extended duties: dental radiography, local infiltration analgesia, inferior dental nerve block analgesia, dental impressions, placing temporary dressings and re-cementing crowns

• Membership of the Higher Education Academy
• Certificate in medical education or equivalent
• Previous relevant teaching experience
• Demonstration of organisational skills
• Demonstration of IT skills