Dental Nurse Educator Lead

About the Role

Suffolk & North East Essex Training Hub is looking for an experienced dental nurse with a passion for education and training to join our team. This is a fixed term post for 12 months to work 2 days per week and will require some travel across Suffolk and north east Essex.

This is a unique opportunity to develop and deliver education, training and workforce initiatives that will shape the dental workforce of today and tomorrow.

Main Duties

• Influence and lead relevant work streams to expand learner placements for dental students across Suffolk and North East Essex
• Influence and lead an expansion of dental practices to become learning organisations
• Lead and develop initiatives to support the recruitment and retention of dental professionals making Suffolk and North East Essex a preferred location to train and work
• Influence and lead relevant workstreams to engage with dental professionals on the benefits of developing multi professional teams to deliver patient care
• Work collaborative with Training Hub and system colleagues to develop and deliver new patient services that will enable Suffolk and North East Essex to deliver Future Shift
• Actively promote the SNEE Training Hub and engage the GP Workforce in its development

Please see attached job description.

About the Candidate

To be considered, you will have the following;

Essential

• Qualified dental nurse registered with General Dental Council
• Knowledge of dental nursing training programmes and delivery models
• Experience of being an educator
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Knowledge of current workforce challenges facing dental nurses

Desirable

• Knowledge of current NHS Quality Improvement Methodology
• Understanding of dental nursing programmes and placement challengesKnowledge and experience of working with education providers

About Us

We are committed to providing a supportive work environment where employees are able to work to the best their abilities. We value professional development and care about health and wellbeing of our staff with many initiatives in place to make us an employer of choice and an organisation that employees are proud to be part of.

SNEE Training Hub is entering its fifth year as an ICB hosted team focused on delivering an NHSE contract to provide education, training and placement support to primary care. The current focus is primary medical care. However, this knowledge, learning and skills can be extended to dental care and this post will provide clinical leadership to take these ambitions forwards.

Contact Julie White at if you would like to find out more!

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Please note this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.