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Slough
Slough Oral Health Improvement
The Oral Health Improvement Team is proud to be commissioned by Slough Borough Council to deliver and promote oral health programmes and education services to ever more communities.
The team co-ordinate, facilitate and support a range of evidence-based interventions to reduce oral health inequalities and promote better oral health.
The service creates tooth-friendly environments through training, local accreditation programmes and partnership alliances. As well as successfully working with early year’s settings, schools, children and adults living in care settings, the team work with other community groups for example travellers, homeless and other marginalised people. Please contact the team for more information.
Oral health is everyone’s responsibility; therefore, training is available to health and non- health professionals. Sessions are tailored to meet the requirements of specific areas e.g. health visiting, school health nurses, teachers, and many voluntary sector areas. The team will provide the dates and venues of planned sessions throughout the year or will discuss bespoke events according to requirements.
Accreditation of early years settings, primary and special schools, is delivered through the Healthy Smiles programme.
Meet the Team
Oral Health Champion Training
Those who work with children aged 0-19 years
Oral Health training is available to both health and non-health teams, and is tailored to suit each group:
Examples:
- Children and Young Person
- School Health Nurses
- Health Visitors
- Teachers
- Additional Needs Teams
- Early Years Teams
- Looked After Children Teams
- Voluntary Sector
A range of resources are provided as part of the training, such as: leaflets, posters and documents, as well as a certificate of attendance.
Attendees of training who complete an evaluation will be provided a CPD certificate, valid for two years. Brief follow up sessions can be provided to update and refresh people’s knowledge. Every session is evaluated by those attending to ensure continuous improvement.
The Healthy Smiles accreditation programme supports services working with young and primary school children to adopt tooth-friendly practices. By implementing the six Healthy Smiles standards, each participating setting helps to;
- increase the dentist attendance of children in their care
- promote positive oral health messages to the children, staff and parents
- reduce the frequency of sugary food and drinks given to the children
Free training is provided by the Oral Health Improvement team to support the staff teams taking part in the award.
For queries relating to Health Smiles programme, please contact the team on ohp.slough@cds-cic.co.uk.
Healthy Smiles Resources
Healthy Smiles Standards 2024
Supervised Toothbrushing Programme
Our programme is a preventative toothbrushing programme designed to address oral health inequalities by helping young children to develop positive oral health skills for life.
Brushing each day at school is effective for preventing tooth decay and can establish life-long behaviour to promote oral health.
The funded programme is a targeted programme so only run in targeted settings.
If you would like to know more about the programme and see if your setting is eligible then please email the team.
For those who aren’t eligible the team can still offer support, guidance and training to self-fund your own programme with your setting.
To watch our short video on our supervised toothbrushing programme, please click here.
Oral Health Champion Training for Care Homes
Oral Health Champion training can be completed by all staff who work in a care setting.
The training is usually delivered online and last approximately 90 minutes. The training session will raise awareness of the importance of daily mouth care as well as practical advice for those people that are dependent or need assistance in oral care techniques. It will provide carers with the knowledge and ability to plan and deliver daily mouth care in any setting including supported living, care homes and domiciliary care. It will provide your managers and staff with the tools for being CQC compliant in oral care as well as carers being more confident in delivering oral care. We also provide training around oral care and dementia (challenging behaviour) and palliative/end of life oral care.
To find out more, please contact the team at: ohp.slough@cds-cic.co.uk.
Oral Health Toolkit for Carers
The Oral Health Toolkit for carers has been designed by OHIMP Oxfordshire in partnership with Oxfordshire County Council. This toolkit is a basic level of training suitable as a refresher or for new staff as part of their induction,
Click here to view the Oral health toolkit.
