Dental Therapist
PROVINCIAL ADMINISTRATION: KWAZULU-NATAL
Overview
Ensure appropriate management and treatment of dental patients. Provide quality oral health care to patients (whole spectrum, i.e. restoration, filling and extraction) Ensure appropriate referral of patients.
Responsibilities
- Ensure appropriate management and treatment of dental patients
- Provide quality oral health care to patients (whole spectrum, i.e. restoration, filling and extraction) Ensure appropriate referral of patients
- Implement policies and guidelines (IPC, waste m anagement)
- Proper utilization and safeguarding of all allocated sources
- Conduct oral health education to patients and identified groups
- Strengthen the referral systems to the chc and next level of care
- Participate in oral health preventative programs
- Participate in oral health month activities (i.e. screening, health talks, etc.)
- Conduct service need index screening at schools (i.e. cleaning of teeth extraction)
- Supervision of Junior staff members in the department
- Implement a continuous monitoring of staff through EPMDS
- Provide conservative dentistry service to prolong teeth mobility
- Perform exodontials within the scope of dental therapy practise
- Identify serious oral diseases and abnormalities
- Participate in all outreach programmes as needed
- C ompile daily statistics, analyse and submit monthly reports timeously as required
- Participate in quality improvement programmes thus contribute to accreditation norms and standard
How to apply
Application instructions from the official source
All applications should be Hand Delivered or couriered to Pomeroy CHC Human Resource Management Offices; Office Number 16 -114 or email to [email protected]
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Enquiries
Recruitment enquiries
Dr ZC Lushaba Tel No: (034) 662 3300
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