Dental Nurse Team Leader | Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust; Rochester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health organization in Rochester is seeking a Dental Nurse Team Lead to oversee daily dental operations, ensuring compliance and providing support to dental nurses and admin staff. Ideal candidates should have experience in dental services and the ability to assist clinicians. A valid UK driving license is required as driving may be part of the role. The organization supports flexible working and encourages diverse applicants. Successful candidates will join a reputable team committed to high standards of patient care.

Qualifications

• Experience in supervising dental staff.
• Ability to provide chairside assistance when needed.
• Compliance knowledge for dental services.

Responsibilities

• Oversee daily operations of dental services.
• Appraise and supervise dental nurses and staff.
• Ensure compliance for dental surgeries and units.

Skills

Supervision of dental nurses

Chairside assistance

Compliance oversight

Driving license

Job description

About the role

We are seeking a Dental Nurse Team Lead to join our team at HMP Rochester.

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust Dental Services provide care across Kent and North East London, including HM Prisons in Kent and Oasis Restore Secure School.

The service complements general and hospital dental services, working with multiple agencies to deliver a range of quality dental care.

Services include:

• Sedation
• Special Care Dentistry
• Pediatric Dentistry
• Domiciliary Care
• Bariatric Dentistry
• Mobile Dental Services for the homeless and medium secure units

The Dental Nurse Team Leader oversees the daily operations of all dental services, ensuring compliance for both dental surgeries and Mobile Dental Units.

Key responsibilities

You will also be responsible for appraising and supervising dental nurses and administrative/reception staff. Additionally, the role includes providing chairside assistance to clinicians when needed.

Employment requirements

Please note, this vacancy does not meet the criteria for skilled worker sponsorship and therefore, we are unable to accept applications from candidates that cannot provide documentary evidence of right to work in the United Kingdom.

As a community Trust many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. As such you will be asked to confirm you have a full UK driving licence where driving is a requirement of the role to be able to proceed with your application. We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment, if you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via [e-mail] quoting the vacancy reference number so we can support you further.

Our values

Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent.

We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences.

Equality, diversity and inclusion

We ask for information about your protected characteristics on our application forms. This isn’t visible to anyone involved with shortlisting or interviewing you, except when you choose to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme due to disability.

Short listers will see two ticks alongside your application to ensure they apply the principles of the scheme to your submission.

The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work.

Flexible working

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both.

Career pathways

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Application information

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

Important notes

We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.

At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non‑clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

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Good luck! We can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity.

This advert closes on Sunday 28 Dec 2025