# Bank Dental Nurse

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Northumbria House
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Dental nurse
- **Grade:** Band 4
- **Salary:** £28,392 - £31,157 pro rata per annum
- **Contract type:** Bank
- **Employment type:** Flexible working - 0 hours per week (Adhoc as and when)
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-14T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-30T15:00:45.127Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Tyne_Wear/Trustwide/Northumbria_Healthcare_NHCT_Northumbria_Healthcare_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Oral_Surgery_Community_Dental_Service/Oral_Surgery_Community_Dental_Service-v8316426
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8316426?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

We require reliable, enthusiastic and motivated Qualified Dental Nurses to join our bank. In return you will can offer you:

- Flexible hours; choose when and where you want to work
- Competitive pay rates; including enhanced pay for unsociable hours
- Paid annual leave
- NHS pension scheme
- A fast-track recruitment process if you move to a substantive role
- Opportunities to work in different wards and departments, including community, dental and specialist services
- Access to Services, such as those provided by our Staff Wellbeing Team
- Ability to book your shifts from home using our online portal
- Option to block-book shifts in a set period
- SMS notifications of shift availability
- Access to staff newsletters and bulletins
- Eligible for various local and national discounts which are available to NHS staff
- Free uniform, where applicable

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

### Main duties of the job

To support the Oral Surgery and or Community Dental Service.

Oral Surgery:

- Set up for Oral surgery procedures including Biopsies, Botox injections and Wisdom tooth/teeth removals.
- Support patients and clinicians throughout.
- Provide post operative instructions to patients as directed.

Community Dental:

- To assist clinicians and patients with complex needs chairside.
- To book appointments, all aspects of support to patients and clinicians.
- To assist with General Anaesthetics at Hospital sites.

Full details in job description.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

- To provide a high level of clinical care within the Northumbria Community Dental Service/Oral Surgery department, supporting the clinicians in all aspects of clinical practice and ensure the smooth facilitation of all dental/oral surgery clinics across Northumbria Healthcare Trust.
- To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

### 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

### Other requirements

**Essential**

- It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role.

### Qualifications / Professional Registration

**Essential**

- National Certificate of Examining Board for Dental Nursing or Certificate of Proficiency recognised by the Association of Dental Hospitals of Great Britain and Northern Ireland or A qualification approved by the Secretary of State as being equivalent to one of the above.
- Current registration with the General Dental Council.

## Documents

- [trust compact (pdf, 515.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3037)
- [guidance for applicants (pdf, 1.4mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2867)
- [northumbria privacy policy (pdf, 520.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1899)
- [nur1436 dental nurse jd&ps (pdf, 232.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10652660)

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