Dental Nurse

Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

The Community Dental service has an exciting opportunity for a registered dental nurse who has a passion for working with vulnerable and medically complex patients. As an award winning service we offer high quality dental care to people who are unable to access a 'high street' NHS dentist, due to their additional needs. The post holder will provide chairside support to our Consultants, Specialists, Dentists and Dental Therapists.

There will be the opportunity to develop your skills to enable you to support our clinicians when providing more specialised care such as inhalation sedation, domiciliary care and working within the hospital theatre setting. The Community Dental Service provides mandatory training and clinical supervision, which supports you in maintaining the General Dental Councils, CPD requirements. We provide a varied and competency based induction programme to support you in your development within the service.

The successful candidate should have 3 years post qualification experience, or hold an NEBDN post qualification. The vacancy is full time (37.5hrs).We have seven sites across Bradford and Airedale. Travel across the district is a requirement of the role in order to successfully undertake the range of duties specified within the job description. Therefore, it is essential that applicants have the ability to travel across the district as and when required to meet the needs and demands of the service.

Main duties of the job

Job Purpose:

To provide chair side and clerical assistance to Consultants, Specialists, Senior Dentists, Dentists, Hygienists and Dental Therapists.
To be responsible for the day to day operation of any of the Community Dental Service sites.

About us

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -

We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference

We Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs

We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :

Increase mileage rates for > 3500

A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages

A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities

Plus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

Date posted

06 December 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£25,147 to £27,596 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

453-23-5809956

Job locations

TBC

Bradford District

Bradford

BD18 3LD

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please read the attached Job description and person specification for more details about this role.

Closing date: 7th January 2024Shortlisting date: w/c 8th January 2024Interviews: 24th January 2024

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please read the attached Job description and person specification for more details about this role.

Closing date: 7th January 2024Shortlisting date: w/c 8th January 2024Interviews: 24th January 2024

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered with the General Dental Council.
National Certificate of the Examining Board for Dental Nurses or equivalent.
To hold or be working towards a post qualification in either conscious sedation, fluoride varnish, radiography, special care or equivalent experience.

Experience

Essential

Handling and collecting patient charges.
Experience of working with special needs groups
3 years post qualification experience

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered with the General Dental Council.
National Certificate of the Examining Board for Dental Nurses or equivalent.
To hold or be working towards a post qualification in either conscious sedation, fluoride varnish, radiography, special care or equivalent experience.

Experience

Essential

Handling and collecting patient charges.
Experience of working with special needs groups
3 years post qualification experience

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).