Community Dental Health Practitioner

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Assessment accommodation

1) Candidates must clearly demonstrate how they meet the essential and asset education and experience factors listed by answering the screening questions. Candidates should write concrete examples demonstrating how they meet the experience and education required.

Provide concrete examples related to the experience:
•Choose examples that illustrate a high degree of complexity and difficulty and have sufficient impact to allow you to illustrate the extent and depth of your experience.
•Examples should include the date or period when the situation occurred, the context, your role and the outcome.
•If you have talked about an experience within a team, separate your role from that of others.

2) The screening board cannot make any assumptions about your experience and will not contact candidates for additional or potentially missing information.

3) Please DO NOT send a cover letter. The screening questions replace the cover letter. We will NOT review cover letters.

4) Resume may be used as a secondary source to validate the qualifications described; comments such as "refer to my attached resume" will not be accepted and may result in your application being rejected.

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Work environment

Indigenous Services Canada strives to be a trusted partner that respects Indigenous perspectives and supports First Nations, Inuit and Métis in controlling the delivery of high-quality services for healthy, prosperous and thriving communities. With this unique vision, the Department’s work is grounded within two fundamental guiding principles: respect the diversity of Indigenous cultures and see their influence in the way we work; and recognizing that partnerships are at the core of how we do things.

For more information on Indigenous Services Canada, please visit: https://www.canada.ca/en/indigenous-services-canada.html

Intent of the process

There is an immediate need for 2 full-time temporary positions located in Sturgeon Lake, Blood Tribe, or High Level in Alberta.

A pool of qualified candidates may be established and may be used to staff similar positions at this group and level with various language requirements (English Essential or Bilingual Imperative), various security requirements, various conditions of employment as well as various tenures (acting, assignment/secondment, deployment, term and/or indeterminate) within Indigenous Services Canada.

Positions to be filled: 2

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

In order to be considered, your application must clearly explain how you meet the following (essential qualifications)

Education:
• Dental Therapist: Successful completion of a dental therapy program recognized by the Saskatchewan Dental Therapists Council
OR
• Dental Hygienist: Successful completion of a dental hygiene program recognized by the Alberta College of Dental Hygienists

Degree equivalency

Occupational Certification:
• Dental Hygienist: Valid Practice Permit from the Alberta College of Dental Hygienists – OR – Eligibility for registration as a Dental Hygienist with the Alberta College of Dental Hygienists.
OR
• Dental Therapist: Valid License with the Saskatchewan Dental Therapists Association – OR – Eligibility for registration as a Dental Therapist with the Saskatchewan Dental Therapists Association.

Experience:
• Experience working as a Dental Therapist or Dental Hygienist.

The following will be applied / assessed at a later date (essential for the job)

English essential

Information on language requirements

Knowledge:
• Knowledge of current preventive dental practices.
• Knowledge of current Infection, Prevention and Control compliance and practice protocols.

Competencies:
• Communication – Oral
• Communication – Written
• Respect for Diversity
• Judgement
• Client Service Orientation
• Demonstrating integrity and respect
• Planning/organizing/monitoring
• Dependability

The following may be applied / assessed at a later date (may be needed for the job)

Asset Education:
• Graduation with a master's degree in Public Health from a recognized post-secondary institution.

• Diploma/Certificates in Health Promotion.

Degree equivalency

Asset Experience:
• Experience implementing Health Promotion programs/activities.

• Experience working in Indigenous communities or with Indigenous populations.

ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS:
Indigenous Services Canada is committed to having a skilled and diversified workforce representative of the population it serves. In support of our strategy to achieve our employment goals for Indigenous peoples, preference may be given to candidates who, at the time of application indicate that they are an Indigenous person (self-declaration).

OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
• Willingness to work overtime as required.

Conditions of employment

Reliability Status security clearance

• Valid driver’s license.
• Willingness and ability to travel to isolated and/or non-isolated communities by road or air.
• Vulnerable Sector’s Check within last 3 years.

• Dental Hygienist: Maintaining registration and licensure with the Alberta College of Dental Hygienists.
OR
• Dental Therapist: Maintaining registration and licensure with the Saskatchewan Dental Therapists Association.

Other information

The Public Service of Canada is committed to building a skilled and diverse workforce that reflects the Canadians we serve. We promote employment equity and encourage you to indicate if you belong to one of the designated groups when you apply.

Information on employment equity

All communication throughout the entire staffing process, including email correspondence may be used in the assessment of qualifications.

We will communicate with applicants by e-mail. It is your responsibility to verify your e-mails regularly to ensure that you do not miss out on any opportunities. Failure to respond in the prescribed timeframe will result in your application not being referred to the hiring manager. The applicant shall ensure that the e-mail address provided is valid and make sure this address is functional at all times and accepts messages from unknown users.

We may assess the essential and asset qualifications using interviews, written tests, reference checks or a combination of these methods.

Candidates invited to the assessment stage will be required to provide ORIGINAL proof of their education credentials, i.e., their degree or official transcript. Failure to do so may result in you not being considered further in the selection process.

Candidates with foreign credentials must provide proof of Canadian equivalency. Consult the Canadian Information Centre for International Credentials for further information at http://www.cicic.ca/

If you do not respond to our communications we will interpret this as your withdrawal from the process.

During the application or assessment process, cheating, plagiarism and the use of artificial intelligence are considered forms of misconduct and are not permitted. Any person found cheating, including those who help others to cheat, will be subject to removal from the selection process.

Preference

Preference will be given to veterans first and then to Canadian citizens and permanent residents, with the exception of a job located in Nunavut, where Nunavut Inuit will be appointed first.

Information on the preference to veterans

We thank all those who apply. Only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.

Contact information

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