Dental Therapist Diploma Senior

Position #: 156376

Expected Start Date: December 16, 2024

Union: HSAS

Facility: La Ronge Health Centre

City/Town: La Ronge

Department: Dental Program

Type: Full-time regular

FTE: 1

Shift Information: Days

Hours of Work:  224 hours per 6 weeks

Relief: No

Float: No

Field Hours: Yes

Salary or Pay Band: Pay Band Dental Therapist - Diploma Senior $32.624 to $39.875

Travel Required: No

Job Description: Reporting to the Manager, the Senior Dental Therapist will provide prevention services, diagnostic treatment planning, restorative/operative dental treatment, community and preventive dentistry services. The incumbent specializes in stimulating, coordinating, and delivering oral health promotion activities aimed at reducing disease and promoting oral health for people in the community. Incumbents must have an ability to work independently and within multi-disciplinary teams. The incumbent will plan, develop, organize, implement and evaluate the delivery of an active preventive oral health education and promotion program within the oral health professional's scope of practice. This position provides supervision, program management, and direction to the Oral Health Program.

Human Resources Exemption: No

Experience

• 2 years' experience as a Dental Therapist

Education

• Dental Therapy diploma

Licenses

• Valid Class 5 driver's license

Other Education and Training

• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Certificate (CPR)

Competencies

• Advanced - Interpersonal skills
• Advanced - Presentation skills
• Advanced - Organizational skills
• Advanced - Computer skills

Knowledge and Abilities

• Knowledge of health principles/outcomes & the relationship to overall health
• Demonstrates effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
• Ability to work and communicate in a cross cultural setting
• Knowledge in media forms and associated technology
• Ability to multitask
• Knowledge in oral health and overall health relationship
• Ability to travel on remote roads or fly in small aircraft to remote communities
• Knowledge in best practice in oral health and other related health impacts
• Knowledge in community health program planning and delivery elements
• Knowledge in health promotion and prevention strategies
• Ability to be innovative in service development, delivery, and problem solving

Other Information

• Registered/eligible with the Saskatchewan Dental Therapists Association (SDTA)
• Preference to HSAS members as per the SAHO/HSAS Collective Agreement
• La Ronge is located approximately 241 km north of Prince Albert
• For more information on the town of La Ronge please visit https://www.laronge.ca/
• Travel required