Band 4 Dental Nurse- School of Dental Hygiene and Therapy

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Part time

Job summary

A community healthcare foundation trust in Birmingham is seeking enthusiastic Dental Nurses. This part-time role involves working flexibly within a dental team, providing high-quality patient care and assistance to clinicians. The ideal candidate should be experienced in dental care and committed to maintaining high standards. Join a team that strives for the best care and healthy communities.

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic and hard working dental nurse.
• Experience in providing high quality dental care.
• Ability to work flexibly within a team.

Responsibilities

• Provide chair side assistance to clinicians.
• Carry out clerical and administrative duties.
• Prepare and monitor patients for dental treatment.
• Assist in the smooth running of the Dental service.

Skills

Chair side assistance

Clerical duties

Patient care

Oral health education

Job description

A Vacancy at Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

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 Birmingham Dental Hospital.

We currently have multiple vacancies for Band 4 Dental Nurses: 0.37 WTE, Part time 2 days per week, 42 week contract working with the School of Hygiene and Therapy.

Working flexibly within the dental team to provide high quality care to a wide spectrum of patients within the Dental Service, based at Birmingham Dental Hospital (BDH) and/or additional external sites such as Community Dental Services (CDS) if required.

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

• 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 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 staff and Undergraduate disciplines.
• To support and supervise all Apprentice Dental Nurses and Undergraduates.

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.

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.

This advert closes on Friday 10 Oct 2025