Lead Dental Nurse

Integrated Care System; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in London is seeking a dynamic Lead Dental Nurse / Charge Nurse to oversee dental services. The successful candidate will enhance leadership skills, manage clinical governance, and ensure patient safety across the Dental Institute. Applicants should possess a national dental nursing certification and significant experience in leadership roles. This role offers an opportunity for professional growth within a committed healthcare environment.

Qualifications

• Significant post-registration experience in relevant specialty.
• Experience in leadership and management.
• Evidence of supporting learning in practice.

Responsibilities

• Oversee services within the Dental Institute and Outreach network.
• Contribute to quality improvement initiatives.
• Ensure delivery of safe, evidence-based care.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical governance

Patient safety

Communication

Education

National Certificate of the Examining Board for Dental Nurses or equivalent

Management Course/Degree

Post-registration course (e.g., Radiography, Sedation)

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated, innovative, and forward-thinking individual to join the team at The Royal London Dental Hospital, part of the Surgical Division. We are seeking a dynamic and experienced professional for the role of Lead Dental Nurse / Charge Nurse, overseeing services within the Dental Institute and Dental Outreach network.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious dental nurse who is ready to take the next step in their career. The role offers a platform to enhance your leadership skills and professional development, with a clear focus on service improvement, clinical excellence, and patient safety.As Lead Dental Nurse / Charge Nurse, you will play a vital role in the operational leadership of the dental network, ensuring the smooth and effective delivery of services. You will contribute to quality improvement initiatives, lead on clinical governance matters, and work closely with the wider directorate to maintain the highest standards of care. A key part of this role involves working collaboratively with other providers and partner agencies to support business planning and service development.Patient safety lies at the heart of everything we do, and you will be responsible for ensuring the consistent delivery of safe, evidence-based care.

Main duties of the job

The Lead Dental Nurse will have clinical and management responsibility for dental nursing across a number of departments within the Dental Hospital and sites networked to the Dental Hospital, Whipps Cross Hospital, Sir Ludwig Guttman Dental Outreach, Barkantine Dental Outreach and Southend Academic Dental Outreach, liaising with multidisciplinary staff of the dental Institute, the wider trust and external agencies where appropriate.

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• National Certificate of the Examining Board for Dental Nurses or equivalent.
• Evidence of a commitment to CPD.
• Management Course /Degree or be willing to undertake relevant course.
• Evidence of undertaking a post registration course e.g. Radiography, Sedation and Oral Health.
• NEBDN Witness Training

Experience

• oSignificant Post Registration experience in relevant specialty.
• oExperience in leadership and management
• oExperience of supporting learning in practice
• oEvidence in supporting the professional and personal needs of an individual and teams
• oExperience in Counseling staff in relation to disciplinary and sickness absence issues.
• oExperience of providing Personal Development Reviews to staff
• oExperience of clinically managing a service or undergraduate department
• oEvidence of involvement in QI work

Knowledge

• Understands the importance and relevance of nursing research and uses this to improve clinical practice.
• Knowledge of nursing care methods and models.
• Sound overall knowledge of caring for patients with problems related to a wide range of general dental disorders especially in Orthodontics, Oral Medicine/Surgery, OMFS.
• Knowledge of health care need in a multiracial society

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.