Band 4 Dental Nurse

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT; Walsall; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A community healthcare provider in Walsall is seeking Dental Nurses to deliver high-quality care within a flexible dental team across various sites. Candidates must possess a relevant Dental Nurse qualification and be registered with the General Dental Council. Responsibilities include chairside assistance, patient preparation, and ensuring an efficient operational flow within dental services. This role offers the opportunity to work with diverse patient profiles, including children and individuals with special needs.

Qualifications

• Relevant experience in a dental team such as General Practice or Community Dental Services.
• Experience working with diverse patient demographics including children and medically compromised patients.

Responsibilities

• Provide chair side assistance and administrative support to clinicians.
• Ensure high standards of patient care and confidentiality.
• Prepare and monitor patients for dental treatment.

Skills

Professional interaction

Confidentiality principles

Knowledge of dental procedures

Organisational skills

Computer Skills

Flexibility

Ability to deal with emotional situations

Education

Dental Nurse qualification (NVQ Level 3 or equivalent)

General Dental Council registration

Job description

To work flexibly within a dental team providing high quality care to a wide spectrum of patients across localities within the Dental Service, based at Birmingham Dental Hospital (BDH) and Community Dental Services (CDS) including Mobile Clinics and/or additional external sites as required.

Dental Nurses will be provided with a base clinic/department when appointed but will be expected to work flexibly across different sites where dental treatment is provided.

To provide chair side assistance to clinicians within the dental service plus arranging/supporting a clinician with any necessary domiciliary visits or visits to external sites.

To assist in screening, epidemiology, and research programmes.

To carry out clerical and administrative duties to ensure efficient operation of the clinic/department.

Main duties of the job

Maintain a high standard of patient care and confidentiality within all dental clinics throughout the service.

The Dental Service compromises of a wide range of locations, specialities and services, the post holder will be required to provide comprehensive chair side and administrative support to a clinician within all clinical sites across Dental services.

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 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.

About us

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.

Community services are a key part of the NHS of the future. Be part of that future now. Join us and help achieve better care and healthier communities.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached a detailed Job description and person specification for a better understanding of the role and its requirements

Person Specification

Qualifications / training

• A Dental Nurse qualification that enables registration with the General Dental Council i.e. NVQ Level 3, Level 3 Diploma in Dental Nursing or Dental Nursing National Certificate in Dental Nursing / Gained entry onto GDC register via grand-parenting (pre 2008)
• Registered with the General Dental Council

Experience

• Relevant experience working as part of a dental team, e.g. General Practice, Hospital, other Primary Dental Services / Community Dental Services experiencing chair side duties
• Experience of working with children, elderly, medically compromised patients, and patients with learning disabilities

Skills/knowledge

• To interact professionally with individuals
• Understand the principles of confidentiality
• Up to date knowledge in all areas of dental nursing
• Ability to work under pressure and on own initiative
• Organisational skills
• Good working knowledge of cross infection procedures
• Computer Skills
• Knowledge of dental procedures
• Other Languages
• Flexibility
• Ability to deal with emotional & challenging situations
• Ability to meet travel requirements of the role

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.