Dental Nurse

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

Job summary

A healthcare services provider in Lancashire is looking for an experienced Dental Nurse to deliver high-quality dental care in a flexible, bank contract role. The position requires excellent patient interaction skills and the ability to work effectively as part of a team. The ideal candidate should have a GDC registration and relevant experience in a dental setting. The role offers competitive pay and the chance to contribute to a supportive healthcare environment, focused on providing exceptional patient care.

Benefits

NHS Pension

Cycle to Work Scheme

Attendance Bonus

Free Tea & Coffee

Eye Care Contributions

Qualifications

• GDC registered Dental Nurse.
• Experience in an emergency dental setting preferable.
• Ability to work autonomously and in a team.

Responsibilities

• Perform high-quality dental nursing alongside the dentist.
• Maintain infection control standards and ensure patient's comfort.
• Contribute suggestions for improvements in service quality.

Skills

Confidence with patients

Teamwork

Organisational skills

Communication skills

Adaptability

Education

NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in Dental Nursing

Tools

Dentally software

Job description

Hours: BankContract Evening and Weekends

Base: WhitegateDrive Health Centre, Blackpool

Overview of Role:

£17.67 per hour withenhancements for weekends and bank holiday shifts.

Bank/Zero Hourscontract, flexible rotas, most nurses alongside other employment. Looking forapprox. 1/2 shifts per week, and able to cover occasionally at short notice.

o Monday to Friday:5.45pm - 9.30pm

o Saturday & BH:10:15am - 6pm

o Sunday: 10:15am -6pm or 2:05pm - 5:50pm

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 andwellbeing services provider is to be passionate in its drive to ensure thatpatients and callers remain the central focus of all that it does. Coupled withexcellent and well-established clinical governance systems and extremelyeffective operational expertise, it has meant that the company has the abilityto strategically visualise, develop, and implement award winning services.

Over many years we have invested in our staff so that we havea core team of highly trained individuals who can manage the needs of ourpatients and callers. Our staff are able to significantly improve the servicedelivery and user experience due to their considerable experience andcommitment 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 notexhausted:

To perform high quality dentalnursing in a safe and effective manner alongside the dentist, within the scopeof practice of a dental nurse.

Confidentand competent dental nurse with working in a busy, and sometimes unpredictableenvironment.

Goodorganisational and time management skills here is invaluable.

Being able to think on your feet butremaining polite and professional is essential; there are sometimes difficultsituations that may arise where you may need to take the lead. Adaptability isessential.

Confident in working with variety ofdifferent staff, it wont always be the same team members your rostered with.

Ability to calm and reassure nervousand anxious patients a large portion of our service users havent seen adentist in a long time and usually come to us as a last resort.

Its essential you are able to workwithin a team and be a trustworthy member.

High standard of infection controland be up to date with HTM01-05.

To establish and maintain productiveworking relationships with all members of the dental team, supporting &helping one another.

Contribute with suggestions andideas to make improvements in quality and outcomes for patients.

Assist with any reasonable dutiesrequested.

Our key expectations are:

Self-awarenessLiving authentically

Adaptability-Being ready to adjust depending on the situation

OpennessWhat you see is what you get

Positivitywith a real sense of being able to strive for the impossible

Generosityof spirit- Everyday should be an opportunity to act with kindness

Abilityto have fun Taking the role seriously, whilst being yourself

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

Values:Our organisational culture is very importantto us, so it is vital that the successful candidate livesand breathes complimentaryvalues and behaviours. Our behaviours should be in line with our values whichform part of our Company DNA:

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

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

Humble: Werehere to make a difference to the lives of others, NOT to see how important wecan become

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

Oompf: We havenatural oompf! Its infectious!

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

Person Specification

Experience

• 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.

Qualifications

• NVQ L3 or equivalent in Dental Nursing.
• 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.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions 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.