Job Order Detail

Description

Position #: 074652

Expected Start Date: April 14, 2025

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: 224.00 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)
Skills
- Infection Control
Competencies
- Advanced - Presentation skills
- Advanced - Computer skills
- Advanced - Organizational skills
- Advanced - Interpersonal skills
Knowledge and Abilities
- Ability to travel on remote roads or fly in small aircraft to remote communities
- Knowledge of health principles/outcomes & the relationship to overall health
- Knowledge in best practice in oral health and other related health impa...
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