WEBINAR -Training for the Healthy Living Dentistry Lead and Healthy Living Dentistry Champion (NW230118A)

Healthy Living Dentistry website

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The Oral Health Lead role will include:

•  Leading and responsibility for Healthy Living Dentistry in practice
•  Developing an action plan & provide evidence
•  Organisational support to enable health champion to deliver the requirements for the programme
•  Ensuring monitoring takes place
•  Networking with leads in other practices.

You must nominate a Healthy Living Champion when registering for the Leadership Training, this champion cannot be the same person as the lead, must not be a trainee and must also attend this session.

The Healthy Living Champion must:

1. Attend the four study sessions (all sessions 12:00 - 14:00):

Tuesday 31st January 2023

Tuesday 14th February 2023

Tuesday 21st February 2023

Tuesday 28th February 2023

2. Complete the e-learning "Understanding Health Improvement" and undertake the final assessment.

Places are limited to 1 lead and 1 champion per practice (Any spare places will be allocated 1 week before the event)

Please visit the Healthy Living Dentistry website for further information.

TO REGISTER YOUR INTEREST PLEASE LEAVE YOUR DETAILS HERE

Registration is from 12.45 pm

This webinar will be delivered via MS Teams and you will be sent an invitation no later than Monday 16th January please check your spam/junk emails.

It is advised, where possible, to use a laptop/PC

* LEADS please note this course is fully subsidised by Health Education England, if you fail to attend this session without giving 1 weeks notice you will be charged a cancellation fee of £30.

* CHAMPIONS if you fail to attend the 1st Champion session you will be charged a cancellation fee of £30, if you fail to take the exam after enrollment you will be charged an additional £50

Mandatory: Dental Nurse, or Dentist, or Practice Manager

Oral Health Lead

Healthy living dentistry aims to encourage dental leaders to create an ethos of proactive health and wellbeing within the dental practice by creating an environment that supports and mentors team members.

Healthy Living Champion

To provide the dental champion with the necessary skills, knowledge and competence to engage the dental team in delivering the Healthy Living Dentistry Agenda.

Oral Health Lead

• Evaluate local health data and use it to inform your dental care.
• Understand the Healthy Living Dentistry framework and your role in this.
• Assess your leadership strengths and how you will use leadership to deliver the programme.
• Engage your team to deliver proactive healthy lifestyle advice and implement HLD in your practice.
• Apply the principles of effective change management to support your team through the process of change.
• Develop an action plan for Healthy Living Dentistry for your practice making best use of you own use of time and delegation

Healthy Living Champion

• Recognise their role and responsibilities as a Healthy Living Dental Champion.
• Understand Healthy Living Dentistry.
• Define the role of the lead, what a champion is and what it is not.

Oral Health Lead

Delegates will have the leadership skills and knowledge to engage the dental team in making every contact count in preventing and promoting oral health and general health.

Healthy Living Champion

• Delegates will be proficient in delivering and promoting the healthy living messages to patients and the team within the dental practice. 
• Champion will co-ordinate the Healthy Living activities within the practice