Dental Nurse

Job summary

What better time than now to come and join our vibrant and friendly Community Dental Team here in beautiful Dorset.

We are delighted to further our ability for skill-mixed teams and extend an invite to qualified Dental Nurses to join our Consultant-led Special Care Dentistry and Paediatric Dentistry work.

Your base will be in our Special Care Dentistry department at Dorset County Hospital and on occasions also supporting colleagues at our new clinic in Poole.

Our services are large enough to make your work variable and interesting, yet are small enough to make the experience of working here greatly satisfying and personal to you.

To give you an overview of our community dental service, please click on the following video link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q62-Vf0osQ

Main duties of the job

You will work as part of a team to provide care for our service users, those patients with dental needs outside of general dental practice (GDP) care, as well as a variety of work including domiciliary, sedation and GAs (once trained).

Your new colleagues are in place and waiting for you: whether you are starting out, are already experienced, or just looking for that special workplace which makes a huge difference to people's lives and is somewhere to call your work home.

• Community Dental Services are a Consultant-led service:
• Skill-mixed teams working together
• Variety of patients and settings to work within
• Pathways/links to acute hospital services across the County
• Participation in inhalation sedation and general anaesthetics (with appropriate experience and training)
• Supportive framework for Continuous Professional Development
• Excellent opportunities for career progression within this service and across the wider NHS.

All we ask of you is that you have an appropriate qualification in Dental Nursing and be registered with the General Dental Council, you are passionate about patient care (adults, children and special care), share our values, enjoy your work, and are a flexible team player.

If you would like to know more about the role or drop in for an informal visit before applying, please contact Debbie Chandler, Senior Dental Nurse, deborah.chandler@somersetft.nhs.uk or telephone 07788 483332.

About us

Living in Dorset is a wonderful, high quality of life experience for everyone:

• Great links to motorways, public transport and its own airport
• Close to beautiful towns such as Poole, Bournemouth and Dorchester
• Fast ferry service linking Poole and Portsmouth with the Channel Islands of Guernsey and Jersey and the Western Channel ports of St Malo and Cherbourg.
• Coast, countryside, moors and hills aplenty
• Great sports facilities and seasonal cultural events