Dental Therapist Diploma Senior

Position #: 105890

Expected Start Date: November 25, 2024

Union: HSAS

Facility: Public Health Office - Saskatoon

City/Town: Saskatoon

Department: CRU Teen Wellness Centre

Type: Part-time regular

FTE: 0.64

Shift Information: Days, Evenings, Weekends

Hours of Work: 18 shifts of 8 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: Yes

Job Description: 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. 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. The position is bound by the following legislation: Dental Disciplines Act, Saskatchewan Dental Therapists Association Bylaws and Regulations

Human Resources Exemption: No

Experience

• 2 years' experience as a Dental Therapist

Education

• Dental Therapy diploma

Other Education and Training

• Dental Nurse Diploma is acceptable

Competencies

• Advanced - Presentation skills
• Advanced - Verbal communication skills
• Advanced - Computer skills
• Advanced - Facilitation skills
• Advanced - Interpersonal skills
• Advanced - Organizational skills
• Advanced - Written Communication Skills

Knowledge and Abilities

• Ability to work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
• Knowledge of program planning process
• Knowledge of health principles/outcomes & the relationship to overall health
• Knowlede of health promotion, public relations projects and/or media
• Ability to work independently
• Ability to address helath-related issues or life skills, other than oral health
• Ability to work in a cross cultural setting
• Ability to work in isolated areas, as required
• Ability to travel on remote roads or fly in small aircraft to remote communities
• Knowledge of dental health principles
• Ability to work and communicate in a cross cultural setting
• Knowledge of current scientific info/research/best practice in oral health
• Knowledge of current infection control standards, practices and protocols

Other Information

• Travel within the region and provincially
• For more information on the city of Saskatoon please visit https://www.saskatoon.ca/
• Registered/eligible with the Saskatchewan Dental Therapists Association (SDTA)
• Preference to HSAS members as per the SAHO/HSAS Collective Agreement