Dental Nurse (CIPO)
4 December 2024
I.Position Summary:
- Be available to provide dental treatment in the field according to licenced scope of practice of adental nurse.
- To provide training to dental students and government staff in preventive and minimally interventiondentistry
- To plan and administer field based activities including logistic coordination and budget reconciliation
- To support Collaborating Centre for Innovation in Population Oral Health (CIPO) in preparing storesand performing data entry
II.Duties and Responsibilities:
The overall job description below outlines the main areas of responsibilities of the Employee:
- Perform team leader duties including Managing budgets for mobile dental trips
- Take responsibility of managing dental stores and equipment
- Work as Dr. Tida’s assistant
- Assist in supervision and teaching of volunteers (foreigners, Cambodian)
- Delivery of clinical services according to the licenced scope of work which includes Oral Urgent Cares,Atraumatic Restorations and Sealants, placement of topical fluorides and health promotion.
- Assist in tooth-brushing coordination among healthy kids Partners
- Advocacy for the Healthy Kids approach and the Ministry of Health’s National Action Plan for OralHealth (2022-2030)
- Assist to coordinate the Cambodia Smile project
- Data entry after dental mobile in Healthy Kids Database
- Communicate and provide support for the Cambodia smile partner health centers
- Administer training for those in the Healthy Kids and Cambodia Smile network
- Assist in managing the Stock and maintaining instruments belonging to CIPO
- Support routine community outreach by UP dental students
- Perform any other duties that fall within the scope of work of CIPO as may be assigned by the Deanof Faculty of Dentistry.
III.Minimum Qualifications and Requirements:
1.Experience:
- Field based dentistry experience
- Leadership experience
2.Education:
- Dental Nurse Qualification
3.Skills/Competencies:
- Well organized
- Able to use WORD and Excel software
- Good communication skills
- Able to multitask
- Have a good understanding of the research process and UP thesis writing guidelines
4.Personal Quality
- Work well in a team
- Reliable
- Attention of details