Vacancies

Open Day - Dental Nurse Band 5

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

On the day we will have managers, and colleagues so you can discuss the day to day activity and see who you would be working alongside. You will be able to discuss with colleagues how they have progressed through the positions and how we have been able to support with their professional development.

Package Description

The Surrey Recruitment open day at Farnham Community Hospital is a great opportunity for you to come and see all the great work the services at HCRG Care Group in Surrey provide. You will be able to discuss opportunities with the management team get an understanding for the type of work we do and how you could be an integral part of this. 

As a Dental Nurse you will receive agenda for change terms and conditions and an NHS pension aswell as having access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

As well as AfC terms and conditions, you’ll have access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• 27-33 days of holidays (depending on experience) plus Bank Holidays
• MyWellness – a health and lifestyle platform covering mental health awareness and support, healthy recipes & activity challenges and access to our free well-being service available 24/7/365 online and by telephone including; counsellors, post trauma incident support, legal, debt and practical life management helpline, guided self-help, telephonic career coaching and monthly well-being newsletters
• Access to Reward Gateway - our staff benefits scheme which grants you access to premium offers and discounts on practical spending at national supermarkets and well known retailers as well as special treats like Virgin Experience Days and Lesuire Vouchers 
• We are pleased to offer access to Wagestream -which lets you track your pay throughout the month and stream your earned wages into your bank account if you need them. No more high-interest loans or overdraft fees - simply get paid as you go.
• Access to a range of courses and e-learning to develop further skills, bespoke career pathways and opportunities continuing your professional development
• Innovative forward-thinking culture with the opportunity to put forward your ideas to contribute to the way we work. You will be encouraged to apply for national funding to drive your initiatives locally to benefit our patients and service users
• Rewarding and supportive teams, you will be recognised and have opportunities to recognise others by nominating for local and national awards annually and taking part in our new virtual “Ask our Executives” event, where you can submit questions to the board and hear updates regularly on company strategy and objectives
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a 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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