Vacancies

Dental Nurse

Main Responsibility

• Patient Care
  1. Surgery and decontamination room preparation and maintenance
  2. Stock control
  3. Radiography – processing digital images
  4. Decontamination and Infection Prevention and Control as per national and service protocols and processes
  5. Patient and carer advice
• Communication Skills
  1. The patient groups seen in the service have a variety of additional needs, which may be a barrier to communication, so excellent communication and personal skills are required
  2. To communicate effectively with all team members using electronic, written or verbal methods
  3. Providing advice and information to patients and their representatives when necessary
• Personal and Professional Development
  1. To maintain professional skills and knowledge by completing relevant training – including First Aid, Life support (relevant to role), Moving and Handling, Fire Safety and Safeguarding
  2. To participate in supervision and appraisal programme
• Health, Safety and Security
  1. Use of hoists and other equipment within the service or in patient’s home
  2. Carry out Infection Prevention procedures to agreed protocols and participate in the care and maintenance of equipment
  3. Work with others to maintain health and safety, reporting faults as service guidance
• Audit, Governance and Quality
  1. Participate in audits and surveys as requested
  2. Collection of patient feedback
  3. Participate in serve governance programs and other quality initiatives
  4. Prioritise workload effectively
  5. Suggest areas that could improve quality of service
  6. Wear service uniform and ID badges at all times

The Ideal Candidate

We are seeking a dedicated and professional Dental Nurse to join our multidisciplinary team at based at Buryfields Clinic, Guildford, however travel to other sites will be required on service needs. This is a vital role at the heart of our service, providing high-quality customer service and essential dental and adminastrative support to ensure the smooth and efficient running of our dental clinics.

If you have prior experience working as a dental nurse in Community, we would love to hear from you! 

As you will work flexibly across sites, a UK driving license and access to a car for work purpose would be required for the role. 

Interviews are likely to be conducted Wednesday 8th July.

Package Description

As a dental nurse you will be part of our valued team in our Community Dental Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

• £28392 - £31,157 (Band 4 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day 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  
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

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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