Band 5 Senior Dental Nurse | Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Birmingham is seeking a Senior Dental Nurse to lead a team within the Dental Service. Responsibilities include managing clinical duties, training staff, and ensuring high standards of patient care. The role requires flexibility to work across different sites and adherence to health protocols. Applicants should have experience in managing a dental nursing team and be committed to providing high-quality care. The position closes on December 3, 2025.

Qualifications

• Ability to manage a team and make significant clinical decisions.
• Experience in maintaining high standards of patient care and safety.
• Skills in training, auditing, and risk management.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team and clinical duties within dental services.
• Conduct staff training and manage service improvements.
• Handle budget responsibilities and ensure compliance with GDC guidelines.

Job description

Overview

The Senior Dental Nurse will work within a skilled dental team providing high quality care to a wide spectrum of patients across localities within the Dental Service. The Senior Dental Nurse will be responsible for the efficient operation in the Community Dental Services within the Birmingham Locality and work alongside Specialist Dental Nurses to support the Division’s aim of providing high quality care for patients. Post holders will be expected to work flexibly across different sites/departments where dental treatment is provided.

Key Responsibilities

• Work autonomously to manage a team and use significant discretion when clinical and staffing issues arise.
• Maintain high standards of patient care and support dental services, managing clinical duties, ensuring equipment maintenance and adhering to health and safety protocols.
• Conduct staff training, auditing, risk management, incident handling and liaise with departments for service improvement.
• Lead by managing Band 4 dental nurses, supervising apprentices, conducting performance reviews and ensuring compliance with GDC guidelines.
• Mentor and evaluate apprentices, ensuring mandatory training is completed.
• Handle budgetary responsibilities including stock control, ordering consumables and supporting service needs.

About Our Organisation

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (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, and operate two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation 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 and aim to be one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

Apply

If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you. For further details on the main responsibilities, please see the attached job description and person specification.

This advert closes on Wednesday 3 Dec 2025.