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

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 25,000; Part time

Job summary

A regional healthcare trust in Birmingham is looking for a Band 4 Dental Nurse to join the Community Dental Nursing Team. The role involves assisting in dental procedures, performing clerical duties, and providing patient care. Candidates should have a Dental Nursing qualification and be able to work flexibly across different locations. This position offers opportunities to support a diverse range of patients and contribute to high-quality dental care. The deadline for applications is January 1, 2026.

Qualifications

• Ability to work flexibly across various dental services.
• Experience in providing chair-side assistance during dental treatments.
• Strong communication skills for educating patients about oral health.

Responsibilities

• Assist clinicians with chair-side duties in dental procedures.
• Perform clerical tasks to ensure clinic efficiency.
• Maintain patient confidentiality and care standards.

Skills

Patient care

Dental procedures assistance

Clerical duties

Oral health education

Education

Dental Nursing qualification

Tools

Dental instruments

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. 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.

For a detailed description of the role, please see attached Band 4 Qualified Dental Nurse job descriptions and person specifications for each vacancy

This advert closes on Thursday 1 Jan 2026