Job Introduction
We are looking for a Dental Nurse to join our Surrey Community Dental Service, on a full or part time basis, to help us continue to change things for the better. The position is based in Guildford with some travel to other clinics including, Farnham, Woking, Epsom Downs, Leatherhead and Staines.
This is a weekday service, no evenings, weekends, or bank holidays required!
We join three local acute hospitals providing a General Anaesthetic service, this is held several times each month and staffed based on a rota. All travel from your base location for work purposes will be reimbursed.
As a team we support with post qualification training including the NEBDN Special Care Qualification, in addition to external courses we provide an Inhalation Sedation in-house training course. Any courses that are relevant to the role and will develop your skills are fully funded by HCRG Care Group.
We are offering a Welcome Bonus of £500 and the price of a years GDC registration to the successful candidate!
Main Responsibility
You will support the Community Dental Service by preparing the surgery at the beginning of a clinical session, making sure all materials and instruments are ready for all clinical procedures.
Other responsibilities may include:
- Providing advice to patient/parents/carers regarding patient care packages
- Assisting the Community Dentists and Therapists throughout the treatment session and supervise patients until they are able to leave the surgery
- Undertaking duties, which involve dealing with a variety of Adults & Children all with special needs
- Listening to patient’s opinions and support them within the structure of the service and take appropriate action
- Assisting the Dental Nurse Team Manager in the day-to-day administration of the service
The Ideal Candidate
You will need to have a Diploma or National Certificate in Dental nursing with the evidence of continued professional development (CPD), and registered with the GDC.
Having previous Community Dental experience is desirable but not essential as full training and guidance will be provided from the team. We offer varied courses to develop your career, we are looking for someone with the want to undertake these and progress.
If you’d like to discuss the role further, please contact Lesley Ennis on lesley.ennis@hcrgcaregroup.com
Package Description
As a Dental Nurse, you’ll be part of our valued team in Guildford
You will feel valued as a Dental Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £25,147 - £27,596 Band 4 Salary with full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
(Hourly rate conversion: £12.90 - £14.15 per hour) - We are offering a £500 Welcome Bonus to the successful applicant for this role!
- 27 days annual leave + bank holidays
- NHS Pension contribution of 20.6%
- Travel paid for from base location when travelling around community/services
- Free on site-parking at majority of sites
- Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location
- 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
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.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
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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