Senior Dental Nurse

Transformation Unit; Wolverhampton; Hybride; GBP 32 000 - 39 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is seeking a Band 5 Senior Dental Nurse for the Special Care Dental Service in Wolverhampton. You will organise clinic activity, oversee a team of Dental Nurses across community sites, domiciliary visits, Mobile Dental Unit and theatre lists, and work with autonomy under the Principal Dental Nurse.

You must hold current GDC registration and bring clinical experience in special care dentistry, plus leadership and line-management capabilities to develop staff and

Qualifications

• Must have valid GDC registration.
• Clinical experience in dental nursing, including special care dentistry.
• Experience in leading a service and in line management.
• Experience of domiciliary care and assisting with sedation procedures.

Responsabilités

• Provide support to the Principal Dental Nurse and deputise in their absence.
• Manage a group of Dental Nurses within your designated area.
• Carry out duties of other senior nurses during any absence.
• Train, update and assess trainee and qualified Dental Nurses at dental clinics.
• Ensure the provision of an efficient and effective service.
• Facilitate development of staff knowledge across dentistry.
• Supervise activities across sites and mobile units for smooth operation.
• Maintain communication with public and staff on a range of issues.
• Ensure CPD is current and maintained.
• Organise running of clinics in Special Care Dental and provide chairside nursing.

Connaissances

GDC registration

Clinical nursing

Leadership

Line management

Domiciliary care

Conscious sedation

Description du poste

Main area Senior Dental Nurse Special Care Dental Service Grade Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 225-DIV1-8206408

Employer The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Pennfields health Centre (All SCDS sites) Town Wolverhampton Salary £32,073 - £39,043 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 04/11/2026 23:59

Band 5

Job overview

To organise and work alongside other Dental Nurses and as directed by the Principal Dental Nurse. This includes overseeing the efficient running of clinics and supporting where required within our community site clinics, domiciliary visits, Mobile Dental Unit, and theatre lists. To work with autonomy, and manage team members whilst fostering a courteous, positive, and professional manner always.

To provide high standards of dental nursing care, and chairside assistance throughout the department. Chairside assistance involves working with patients that have complex dental and medical needs, assisting with conscious sedation (if a suitable qualification is held), specialised procedures, maintaining and completing environmental and instrument decontamination processes, preparation of equipment for procedures and providing pre-operative and post-operative care.

Only candidates with current GDC registration can be considered for this position.

Main duties of the job

Provide support to the Principal Dental Nurse and deputise in their absence.

Manage a group of Dental Nurses within your designated area.

Carry out duties of other senior nurses during any absence.

Be able to train, update and assess trainee and qualified Dental Nurses at specified dental clinics.

To ensure the provision of an efficient and effective service.

To facilitate the development of Dental Nurses’ knowledge in all aspects of dentistry.

Supervise a range of work activities appropriate to trainee and qualified Dental Nurses across sites and mobile dental units as is necessary for the smooth running of the Dental Service.

Maintain effective communication with the public and staff on a full range of issues, some potentially complex.

Ensure Continuing Professional Development is current, up to date and maintained.

The post holder will be required to work within the specialist clinical disciplines of Special Care Dental.

To organise the efficient running of clinics in Special Care Dental.

Provide chair side nursing assistance in Special Care Dental procedures. Assisting clinicians with specialised procedures, preparing and decontaminating instruments, handling instruments, providing patients with pre and post-operative care.

To be accountable for own professional actions under General Dental Council guidelines, codes of practice.

Ensure effective contribution to the delivery of the organisational and departmental objectives.

Working for our organisation

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.
We are delighted that we have been rated as \"Good\" by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.
The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Experience

Must have valid GDC registration

Must have clinical experience, post registration experience. experience of working within special care dentistry in either community or hospital setting.

Must have experience/knowledge of leading on a service requirement.

Experience of line management

Experience of domiciliary care

Experience of assisting with treatment with conscious sedation (IV and/or RA)

Must have experience/knowledge of leading on a service requirement.

Clinical Duties

To undertake chair side duties as and when required for the smooth running of the Dental Services. This includes a substantial clinical commitment within your clinical area of responsibility, as directed by the Principal Dental Nurse.

To maintain and extend a good working up-to-date knowledge of dental procedures and to identify areas of personal development to ensure high standards are achieved.

To assist the Dental surgeon with specialised programmes of care i.e. surgical and non-surgical interventions.

To be responsible for preparing the clinic and the necessary instrumentation for specialised procedures without direct supervision.

To undertake daily duties without direct supervision with Principal Dental Nurse available for advice as necessary.

To anticipate events during patient’s treatments and prepare instruments and materials as appropriate and to ensure safe and effective clinical practice.

Quality and Clinical Governance

To contribute to the Clinical Governance activities and to comply with standards set for the Dental Services by Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust as part of its Quality Assurance programme.

To develop and implement the Trusts Clinical Audit programme, Clinical Risk Strategy, Research and Development within the Trusts Clinical Governance Framework.

To facilitate the Dental Nurse Audit Group meetings.

To work with the Principal Dental Nurse on issues of quality standards, clinical governance, audit, and risk management. Whilst directing the Dental Nurses to maintain laid down quality standards, clinical audit and reporting clinical incidences.

Administrative Responsibilities

Preparation of daily clinics by providing the necessary instrumentation, materials, equipment, laboratory work, radiographs and scans to ensure that a seamless service is provided to the patient.

To maintain records within clinics.

Collating, filing and storage of patient study model boxes and patient photographs.

Giving clinical advice regarding patient enquiries in person and by telephone.

Write and develop local clinical practices and procedures for Special Care Dental.

To participate in the development of information leaflets for the department.

Co-ordinate packages of care for patients with departmental technical staff.

To monitor and maintain stock levels within the department and liaise with the Principal Dental Nurse for authorisation.

Technical Responsibilities

To comply with local, trust and national policies and procedures.

To disassemble and clean specialised dental units.

To be able perform