# Band 7 Dental Staff Hygienist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-7-dental-staff-hygienist/d4a193c2-8ea7-493b-8ded-e044693e7d09 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-7-dental-staff-hygienist/d4a193c2-8ea7-493b-8ded-e044693e7d09.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Moseley Hall Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum (pro rata) - **Contract type:** Permanent: Wednesday only - **Employment type:** Part time - 7.5 hours per week (Wednesday only) - **Closing date:** 2026-10-13T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-28T23:03:27.253Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Birmingham_Black_Country/Birmingham/Birmingham_Community_Healthcare_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Restorative/Restorative-v8208871 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8208871?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.bhamcommunity.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview ***This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested*** To provide specialist clinical care and preventative treatment without direct supervision to patients attending the specialist Dental Hospital services for secondary or tertiary care. To carry out dental treatment on these patients to a level of competence as directed by the Dental Act and its amendments. Main contact is with hospital staff and patients. Patient groups as a priority are adults and children with special needs, including medically compromised patients, anxious patients and patients with challenging behaviour. ### Main duties of the job - Carrying out the full range of treatments currently permitted under the General Dental Council regulations. - Specific duties may only be undertaken if trained and competent to do so. - Treatment may be carried out within hospital dental departments and wards or by domiciliary treatment visits, if necessary Treatment is provided following a prescribed course of treatment as directed by a registered dentist. Any combination of the following duties may be performed on a daily basis. Permitted duties of the Dental Hygienist: Education of patients on the causes and prevention of periodontal diseases and dental caries. Identification of risk factors for the dental diseases, including medical and social risk factors and the provision of appropriate counselling advice, including:- Medical history - Diet analysis and nutritional guidance - Advice in the use of fluoride agents - The benefits of smoking cessation and accessing cessation service Motivate patients to maintain a high standard of oral hygiene. Monitor patients’ progress using appropriate indices:- - Bleeding and plaque indices - Detailed pocket charting - Mobility index - Furcation index Perform supra- and subgingival scaling of teeth including polishing, allowing removal of hard and soft deposits and stains. The provision of comprehensive specialist periodontal invasive root debridement therapy using Gracey area curettes and high-speed ultrasonic device. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities General Duties - To be fully conversant with basic first aid and resuscitation techniques, attending regular training. - Comply with local rules relating to radiography, IRMER and the Dental Radiographic Quality Assurance Audit Policy. - Comply with the departmental and Trust policy on the control of infection. - Assess new instruments in terms of performance and feedback evaluations. - Adhere to Trust policy on Manual Handling, participating in mandatory training. - Actively participate in Team Briefing meetings and peer group reviews. - Participate in the training of other grades of Trust staff as required. - Participate in activities related to the promotion of quality of service, including schemes for clinical audit and standard setting. - Participate in such continuing professional development and training that may be necessary for personal development, as identified jointly with the head of the service. - Ensure effective and efficient use of resources. - Agree personal objectives related to the delivery of the service. Agree and manage time effectively to ensure that the workload is scheduled and completed on time. - Administrative duties include monitoring of referrals and managing appointments directly with patients and reception staff. - Monitor personal workload and communicate to clinical lead periodic variations in service requirements - Support the clinical team in reviewing services and implementing service developments, proposing changes and innovations - Contribute to the development, interpretation, implementation, and review of national and local policies as well as the service’s policies, procedures and standard. - To undertake other duties commensurate with this grade of post in agreement with the relevant line manager. To minimise the Trust’s environmental impact wherever possible, including recycling, switching off lights, computers, monitors and equipment when not in use. Helping to reduce paper waste by minimising printing/copying and reducing water usage, reporting faults and heating/cooling concerns promptly and minimising travel. Where the role includes the ordering and use of supplies or equipment the post holder will consider the environmental impact of purchases. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Experience in working/dealing with special needs groups including the elderly, young patients, medically compromised patients and those patients with differing abilities, challenging behaviour and those with neuro diversities. - Significant experience as a dental hygienist and therapist in restorative treatment for adults and managing patients with advanced periodontal disease. - Experience of providing treatment for adults with severe dental anxiety - Experience of treating adults with a range of disabilities - Evidence of participation in clinical audit/peer review **Desirable** - Experience of treating adults with a range of disabilities - Previous relevant teaching experience ### Skills/Knowledge **Essential** - Good empathic interpersonal and communication skills (written & verbal) beyond those required for routine dental care in general dental practice.Good knowledge of the role of the Special Care/Restorative/Paediaitric Dentistry in secondary and tertiary care. - Analytical and problem solving skills appropriate to the provision of specialist care in a specialist environment and those required in the learning environment - Collaborate and interact professionally with individuals. - Maintain knowledge of current dental hygiene practice - Ability to work under pressure and on own initiative - IT skills in clinical software and Microsoft office - Participate in and evaluate audit and research. - Safe use of specialist dental and edental radiography equipment - Receive and analyse complex information and determine individual care packages in own clinical practice and for multiple patients at one time during clinical supervision of undergraduates - Concentrate for long periods of time. - Work without direct supervision and make appropriate clinical decisions - Be competent in dealing with emotional and distressing situations and possible verbal aggressive behaviour - Familiarity with all policies and procedures determined locally and within the PCT. - Ability to source knowledge in order to provide clinical care under quality assurance. - High quality clinical skills beyond those required for routine dental care in general dental practice - Ability to empathise with students needs and provide effective feedback - Knowledge of specific needs of patients with complex medical conditions, eg complex respiratory conditions, bariatric patients and those with dermatological conditions (eg, Epidermolysis Bullosa) to enable safe practice - Work in confined spaces which may require periods of sitting or standing **Desirable** - Management of patients with craniofacial abnormalities/disease ### Personal qualities **Essential** - Excellent communication and interpersonal skills - Professional approach - Work as part of a multidisciplinary team - Problem-solving skills. - Prioritising and planning skills - Commitment to personal development - Flexible and responsive to change - Motivated - Empathise with patients/carers/relatives - Responsible and accountable for own professional actions - Willing to work in other areas of the Hospital in order to accommodate service requirements, as directed by the Head of Department - Work with direct supervision and make appropriate clinical decisions - Work in confined spaces which may require periods of sitting or standing - Safe use of specialist dental and dental radiography equipment if required ### Qualifications / training **Essential** - Degree in Dental Hygiene/Therapy - Compulsory annual registration with the General Dental Council with a specific medical or dental society is advisable - Personal indemnity insurance - Current GDC registration - Competency in permitted extended duties:- Local infiltration analgesia - Inferior dental nerve block analgesia - Dental impressions ## Documents - [jd dental hygienist (pdf, 199.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10515810) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.