Band 4 Dental Nurse

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

A local healthcare provider in Birmingham seeks an enthusiastic Dental Nurse to join the Community Dental Nursing Team. This role involves providing high-quality patient care, assisting clinicians, and undertaking administrative duties within the Birmingham Dental Hospital. The ideal candidate will be patient-focused and committed to delivering exceptional dental care. Working hours are flexible across multiple departments, targeting 22.5 hours a week. If you're ready to join a dedicated team emphasizing integrated healthcare, we'd love to hear from you.

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic and hard working with a commitment to high quality dental care.
• Flexible working within the Birmingham Dental Hospital departments.
• Ability to support and supervise apprentice nurses and undergraduate groups.

Responsibilities

• Provide chair side assistance to clinicians within the dental service.
• Carry out clerical and administrative duties to ensure efficient clinic operations.
• Prepare and monitor patients for dental treatment, providing necessary instructions.
• Ensure medical emergency drugs and equipment are available and up to date.
• Assist Senior Dental Nurse and specialty nurses in the smooth operation of the Dental service.

Skills

Patient-focused care

Chair side assistance

Oral health education

Clerical and administrative duties

Job description

Job Summary

Are you looking for a new exciting career within the NHS? Are you patient focussed and want to deliver high quality dental care? We are seeking enthusiastic, hard working dental nurses to join the Community Dental Nursing Team.

We currently have a vacancy for a Band 4 Dental Nurse:

22.5 hours / 0.6 WTE / Working days to be Monday, Tuesday, and Friday. Based at the Birmingham Dental Hospital

Working flexibly within the dental team to provide high quality care to a wide spectrum of patients across localities within the Dental Service, based at Birmingham Dental Hospital (BDH). Dental Nurses will be expected to work flexibly within the Birmingham Dental Hospital departments and occasionally supporting community dental service.

Responsibilities

• To provide chair side assistance to clinicians within the dental service.
• To carry out clerical and administrative duties to ensure efficient operation of the clinic/department.
• To prepare and monitor patients for and during their dental treatment, providing pre and post operative instructions as required.
• To undertake the general care of the surgery including dental equipment/instruments (medical devices) and arrange any necessary repairs as required.
• To ensure medical emergency drugs and equipment are available and up to date.
• To provide chair side assistance and postoperative instructions during general anaesthetic and exodontia sessions as required.
• To provide oral health education to patients as required by the clinician.
• To assist the Senior Dental Nurse and Specialty Nurses in the smooth running of the Dental service.
• To support and assist clinicians including all student disciplines.
• To support and supervise all apprentice nurses, undergraduate groups.

Be Part of Our Team...

BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.

Contact

For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Joanne Crumpler
Job title: Senior Dental Nurse - Periodontics
Email address: [e-mail]
Telephone number: 0121 466 5223