Dental Nurse

FCMS; Burnley; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare services provider is seeking a dynamic dental nurse to join their Emergency Dental Service in Burnley. This role involves delivering high-quality patient care in an unpredictable environment. Candidates should have an NVQ L3 in Dental Nursing and be GDC registered. This position offers flexible bank hours with a pay of £17.32 per hour plus enhancements for weekends and bank holidays.

Benefits

NHS Pension

Cycle to Work Scheme

Attendance Bonus

Free Tea & Coffee

Eye Care Contributions

Qualifications

• Experience in an emergency dental setting preferable.
• Ability to manage unexpected situations confidently.
• High standard of infection control knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Perform high quality dental nursing in a safe manner.
• Calm and reassure nervous patients.
• Maintain productive relationships within the dental team.

Skills

Confidence with patients

Teamwork

Organisational skills

Communication skills

IT Skills

Education

NVQ L3 or equivalent in Dental Nursing

GDC registered Dental Nurse

Tools

Dentally software

Job description

We are looking for a person who enjoys urgent dental care/the unexpected elements of dentistry but will take satisfaction from the less routine side of dentistry. An honest person, who cares about their work & their team members.

The Service:

We are commissioned by Lancashire and South Cumbria, Integrated Care Board to provide NHS urgent and emergency dental care 365 days, at multiple sites across Lancashire. We believe in making a difference, and pride ourselves on delivering high quality patient care. We currently have services operating in Blackpool, Morecambe, Blackburn and Burnley. We operate out of hours, evenings, weekends & bank holidays 365 days per year.

An exciting and rare opportunity has arisen for a dynamic Individual to develop their dental nursing career within our Emergency Dental Service.

Overview of Role:

• £17.32 per hour with enhancements for weekends and bank holiday shifts.

Hours: Maternity cover (November 2025 - June 2026)

• Bank/Zero Hours contract, flexible rotas, most nurses alongside other employment. Looking for approx. 1/2 shifts per week, and able to cover occasionally at short notice.
• Shift patterns (may vary):
• Monday to Friday: 5.45pm to 9.00pm
• Saturday/Sunday & BH: 1.15pm to 5pm
• To work across both site at Barbara Castle Way Health Centre, Blackburn & St Peter Centre, Burnley.

Main duties of the job

The Service aims to provide patients with treatment to relieve pain, swellings, and the management of Injuries/Traumas. Caring and Compassionate personality is extremely important. Confident dental nurse able to work as a team in a busy, and sometimes unpredictable environment.

About us

The ethos of FCMS as a social enterprise, health and wellbeing services provider is to be passionate in its drive to ensure that patients and callers remain the central focus of all that it does. Coupled with excellent and well-established clinical governance systems and extremely effective operational expertise, it has meant that the company has the ability to strategically visualise, develop, and implement award winning services.

Over many years we have invested in our staff so that we have a core team of highly trained individuals who can manage the needs of our patients and callers. Our staff are able to significantly improve the service delivery and user experience due to their considerable experience and commitment to what they do.

Come and be a part of our amazing team!

We offer NHS Pension

Cycle to Work Scheme

Attendance Bonus

Free Tea & Coffee

Eye Care Contributions

Job responsibilities

Day to Day Duties to include, but not exhausted:

• To perform high quality dental nursing in a safe and effective manner alongside the dentist, within the scope of practice of a dental nurse.
• Confident and competent dental nurse with working in a busy, and sometimes unpredictable environment.
• Good organisational and time management skills here is invaluable.
• Being able to think on your feet but remaining polite and professional is essential, there are sometimes difficult situations that may arise where you may need to take the lead. Adaptability is essential.
• Confident in working with variety of different staff, it wont always be the same team members your rostered with.
• Ability to calm and reassure nervous and anxious patients a large portion of our service users havent seen a dentist in a long time and usually come to us as a last resort.
• Its essential you are able to work within a team and be a trustworthy member.
• High standard of infection control and be up to date with HTM01-05.
• To establish and maintain productive working relationships with all members of the dental team, supporting & helping one another.
• Contribute with suggestions and ideas to make improvements in quality and outcomes for patients.
• Assist with any reasonable duties requested.

Our key expectations are:

Self-awareness Living authentically

Adaptability- Being ready to adjust depending on the situation

Openness What you see is what you get

Positivity with a real sense of being able to strive for the impossible

Generosity of spirit- Everyday should be an opportunity to act with kindness

Ability to have fun Taking the role seriously, whilst being yourself

Our Why: To nurture an environment of inspiration, innovation and disruption so this people in our world receive exceptional healthcare for this generation, and the next.

Values: Our organisational culture is very important to us, so it is vital that the successful candidate lives and breathes complimentary values and behaviours.

Our behaviours should be in line with our values which form part of our Company DNA:

Fun: People rarely succeed unless they are having fun. Happiness is healthy!

Awesome: We arent here to be average, were here to be awesome!

Humble: Were here to make a difference to the lives of others, NOT to see how important we can become

Brave: We challenge the norm. We have the courage to get the difficult jobs done

Oompf: We have natural oompf! Its infectious!

Go-getting: We are intuitive to changing needs and respond quickly which we do with energy, ideas, and positivity

Disability Confident Employer

As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy

DBS - This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exemption 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. This will require three forms of valid ID to be produced and verified.

Person Specification

Experience

• NVQ L3 or equivalent in Dental Nursing.

Qualifications

• GDC registered Dental Nurse
• Experience in an emergency dental setting preferable.
• Knowledge or experience of Dentally software.

Personal Qualities

• Confidence with patients and unexpected situations
• Teamworking and able to work autonomously.
• Negotiation and influencing skills.
• Act on own initiative
• Organisational and communication skills.
• IT Skills
• Experience of picking up safeguarding concerns & being able to ask probing questions in a delicate manger to obtain important information.