Dental Nurse

HCRG Care Group; Guildford; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Group pension

My Reward Hub discounts

Earn-as-you-go wages access

Wellbeing support and resources

Learning and development opportunities

Free tea, coffee, and milk

Job summary

HCRG Care Group is seeking a dedicated Dental Nurse to join the Community Dental Service in Guildford. You will assist clinicians, perform dental nursing duties, and handle administrative tasks to ensure smooth clinic operation.

Travel to other sites may be required. A UK driving license and access to a car are needed for the role. The package includes a salary from £31,157 and a supportive learning environment.

Qualifications

• Experience as a dental nurse in Community settings or similar preferred.
• Driving license and access to a car for work are required.

Responsibilities

• Assist CDS clinicians and staff in a variety of specialist dental services.
• Carry out administrative tasks to support the service.
• Clinical duties for dental nursing including care for adults and children with special needs.

Skills

Communication skills

Driving license

Tools

Hoists

Job description

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As a Dental Nurse, you’ll be part of our valued team in our Community Dental Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Salary from £31,157 withgroup pension and HCRG terms and Conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
• Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location

Job Introduction

To assist the Community Dental Service (CDS) clinicians and other clinical staff to carry out their duties for a variety of specialist services, working at any dental department within the service

Administrative tasks relating to the service to help ensure the smooth running of the service

This post is responsible for

• Clinical tasks relating to Dental Nursing role, dealing with a variety of adults and children with special needs, including learning/physical disabilities, complex medical histories and challenging behaviours
• Providing advice to patients and their representatives including, oral health promotion, post-extraction, GA and sedation as well as general enquiries, dental emergencies and trauma where necessary
• Administrative tasks to support reception/administration team as needed

Main Responsibilities

• Surgery and decontamination room preparation and maintenance
• Stock control
• Decontamination and Infection Prevention and Control as per national and service protocols and processes
• Patient and carer advice
• Communication Skills
  • The patient groups seen in the service have a variety of additional needs, which may be a barrier to communication, so excellent communication and personal skills are required
  • To communicate effectively with all team members using electronic, written or verbal methods
  • Providing advice and information to patients and their representatives when necessary
• Personal and Professional Development
  • To maintain professional skills and knowledge by completing relevant training – including First Aid, Life support (relevant to role), Moving and Handling, Fire Safety and Safeguarding
  • To participate in supervision and appraisal programme
• Health, Safety and Security
  • Use of hoists and other equipment within the service or in patient’s home
  • Carry out Infection Prevention procedures to agreed protocols and participate in the care and maintenance of equipment
  • Work with others to maintain health and safety, reporting faults as service guidance
• Audit, Governance and Quality
  • Participate in audits and surveys as requested
  • Collection of patient feedback
  • Participate in serve governance programs and other quality initiatives
  • Prioritise workload effectively
  • Suggest areas that could improve quality of service
  • Wear service uniform and ID badges at all times

The Ideal Candidate

We are seeking a dedicated and professional Dental Nurse to join our multidisciplinary team at based at Buryfields Clinic, Guildford, however travel to other sites will be required on service needs. This is a vital role at the heart of our service, providing high-quality customer service and essential dental and adminastrative support to ensure the smooth and efficient running of our dental clinics.

If you have prior experience working as a dental nurse in Community, we would love to hear from you!

As you will work flexibly across sites, a UK driving license and access to a car for work purpose would be required for the role.

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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