Band 4 Dental Nurse - Dental Outreach Centre | Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 26,000; Part time

Job summary

A community healthcare provider in Birmingham seeks a Band 4 Dental Nurse to join its team. The role includes providing chair-side assistance, maintaining patient care standards, and supporting student and apprentice nurses. The position offers part-time hours and operates from the Dental Outreach Centre with potential support at additional sites. Applicants should have experience in dental nursing and excellent patient communication skills.

Qualifications

• Experience in dental nursing or related field.
• Ability to assist in dental procedures and care.
• Understanding of dental equipment and instruments.

Responsibilities

• Provide chair-side assistance to clinicians.
• Carry out clerical duties for efficient operation.
• Maintain patient care standards and confidentiality.
• Prepare and monitor patients for dental treatment.
• Ensure medical emergency drugs and equipment are available.
• Support and supervise apprentice nurses.

Skills

Patient care

Chair-side assistance

Communication

Clerical duties

Oral health education

Job description

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: 15.0 hours / 0.4 WTE – Substantive. Working days to be Friday and 1 additional day to be confirmed. Based at the Dental Outreach Centre, Birmingham City Centre.

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 Dental Outreach Centre, Birmingham City Centre, but also to support additional external sites as required including Birmingham Dental Hospital (BDH) and Community Dental Service (CDS)

Dental Nurses will be expected to work flexibly across the Dental Division.

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

BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. We deliver 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 are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

This advert closes on Tuesday 23 Sep 2025