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Location

Saskatoon, SK | Canada

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Job description

Employer Job Number: GO-00751668-1
Facility: Idylwyld Centre
Job : 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.

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

Required Qualifications

Graduate from a recognized dental therapy program with a Dental Therapist Diploma or Dental Nurse Diploma
Registered or eligible for registration with the Saskatchewan Dental Therapists Association
Experience
2 years' experience as a Dental Therapist
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Ability to address health-related issues or life skills, other than oral health (eg. personal hygiene, promote immunization and breastfeeding)
Ability to problem solve, be creative and innovative, take initiative
Ability to travel on remote roads and fly in small aircraft to remote communities, as required
Ability to work in a cross cultural environment
Ability to work in isolated areas, as required
Ability to work independently and as a member of a multi
For more information on this job, please visit the employer's website.

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Salary

$32.62k - $39.88k per year