Job summary
Job Title: Dental Nurse
Hours per week: 37.5 hours a week
Perm/Fixed Term: Fixed Term - 12 months
Salary: £25,147 - £27,596 per annum
Please note if you commence in post prior to October 2024, you will be paid in line with 2023/2024 agenda for change pay scales.
Closing Date: 30th September 2024
Interview Date: 9th October 2024
This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly.
All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.
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Main duties of the job
We are recruiting for a Full time Fixed Term post; for 37.5
hours but would be willing to discuss part time working.
The successful candidates will bebased at Stratford
Hospital.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills are
required for this post. Experience in General Dental Practice is desirable.
Car owner/driver essential.
About us
Here at George Eliot our vision to 'excel at patient care' taking centre stage. An ever evolving clinically- led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive health services delivered by inspiring and compassionate staff who share our corporate values:
Effective open communication
Excellence and safety in everything we do
Challenge but support
Expect respect and dignity
Local health that inspires confidence
Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, extensive in-house course learning directory, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will a dental nurse, working within the Community, for the Warwickshire Special Care Dental Service and will be responsible for providing close support dental nursing duties to clinicians at your base site and also a variety of clinics throughout Warwickshire; to enable a full range of special care dentistry provision for our client groups. There may also be an opportunity to support the general anaesthetic and sedation services.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills are required for this post. Experience in General Dental Practice is desirable.Car owner/driver essential.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will a dental nurse, working within the Community, for the Warwickshire Special Care Dental Service and will be responsible for providing close support dental nursing duties to clinicians at your base site and also a variety of clinics throughout Warwickshire; to enable a full range of special care dentistry provision for our client groups. There may also be an opportunity to support the general anaesthetic and sedation services.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills are required for this post. Experience in General Dental Practice is desirable.Car owner/driver essential.
Person Specification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Experience of working within the NHS and as a Qualified Dental Nurse
- Working with patients with special care requirements, medically compromised and phobic or high risk.
Desirable
- Working with patients with special care requirements, medically compromised and phobic or high risk.
Qualification and Professional Training
Essential
- National Certificate for Dental Nurses
- Registered with the GDC
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Good organizational and time management skills
- Good negotiation/interpersonal skills
- Ability to work under pressure, to tight deadlines
- Flexible approach
- Enthusiastic and motivated with the ability to motivate others
Desirable
Trust Values
Essential
- Effective Open Communication
- Excellence and safety in all that we do
- Challenge but support
- Expect respect and dignity
- Local healthcare that inspires confidence
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Flexible and innovative
- Friendly and co-operative
- Attentive to detail
- Team worker
Other
Desirable
- Willing to attend occasional meetings at all Trust sites
Person Specification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Experience of working within the NHS and as a Qualified Dental Nurse
- Working with patients with special care requirements, medically compromised and phobic or high risk.
Desirable
- Working with patients with special care requirements, medically compromised and phobic or high risk.
Qualification and Professional Training
Essential
- National Certificate for Dental Nurses
- Registered with the GDC
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Good organizational and time management skills
- Good negotiation/interpersonal skills
- Ability to work under pressure, to tight deadlines
- Flexible approach
- Enthusiastic and motivated with the ability to motivate others
Desirable
Trust Values
Essential
- Effective Open Communication
- Excellence and safety in all that we do
- Challenge but support
- Expect respect and dignity
- Local healthcare that inspires confidence
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Flexible and innovative
- Friendly and co-operative
- Attentive to detail
- Team worker
Other
Desirable
- Willing to attend occasional meetings at all Trust sites
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
