Dental Hygiene Therapy Lecturer

About the Role

We are seeking a part time Dental Hygiene Therapy Lecturer to provide chairside supervision for Dental Hygiene and Therapy students. You will support our undergraduate programmes, focusing on the Dental Hygiene and Therapy Programme, contributing to teaching, organisation, and assessment.

We welcome applicants with significant experience in Paediatric and Restorative Dentistry across general practice, hospital, or community settings and offer in return an excellent opportunity for career growth in a supportive environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver high-quality teaching and chairside supervision in Dental Hygiene and Therapy, focusing on Paediatric and Restorative Dentistry
• Contribute to developing innovative teaching materials and methods
• Support student learning and well-being as a Personal Tutor or Academic Advisor
• Engage in scholarship to enhance the student experience
• Participate in public engagement and outreach

About You

You will have a Diploma (or higher) in Dental Hygiene or Therapy and full GDC registration. Through demonstrable clinical experience, you will have developed confidence and competence in real-world practice in dental hygiene and therapy, ensuring you can effectively supervise, support, and assess students, drawing on your own experience to guide learners through common challenges and clinical decision-making.

With a strong record in pedagogy, your past experiences will allow you to bring a depth of practical knowledge, clinical judgement, and familiarity with patient management into your teaching in both classroom and clinical settings.

About the School/Department/Institute/Project

The IoD has conducted internationally recognized oral and dental sciences research in Whitechapel for over a century and is consistently ranked in the top 20 QS Dental School rankings. Its research environment was rated excellent (4*) in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework and supports seamless translational and clinical research.

IoD offers two undergraduate and 19 postgraduate taught programs, including eight specialty training programs across various dental disciplines, with a student body of around 500. In 2014, we opened the £78m Royal London Dental Hospital, the first new dental school and hospital in the UK in 40 years, featuring cutting-edge dental facilities. We also invested £1.8 million in 42 Simodont haptic dental trainers, the world’s largest collection, with dedicated space and staff for enhanced learning.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

Closing Date: 13/05/2025, 23:55 

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