Clinical Dental Nurse Manager/Practice Development Dental Nurse Tutor

Job overview

A wonderful opportunity has become available for a motivated individual to join our supportive progressive workplace within Barts Health NHS Trust at our Whitechapel site.

This is an ideal career opportunity for anyone looking to develop their existing skills and be part of our internationally renowned Teaching Hospital in East London.

We offer a full range of local and specialist services, which includes one of the largest children's hospitals in the UK with one of London's busiest paediatric accident and emergency departments. Home to London's Air Ambulance, The Royal London is also one of the capital's leading trauma and emergency care centres and hyper-acute stroke centres.

The Royal London Dental Hospital is part of Barts Health and is a leading specialist hospital for first-class dental and Oral Health care & provides clinical excellence in all aspects of dentistry.

Barts Health currently has five sites: Whitechapel, Leytonstone, Stratford & Isle of Dogs & Homerton.

The services we currently provide are:

• OMFS/Oral Surgery
• Orthodontics
• Oral Medicine
• Restorative Dentistry
• Special Care Dentistry
• Paediatric Dentistry
• Undergraduate Dentistry
• Emergency Dental 111 Clinic
• Dental General Anaesthesia Department

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will provide leadership to the Dental Nurse team on a daily basis, inspiring them with strong leadership, excellent clinical skills and a visible and exemplary commitment to patient-centeredness.
• The post holder will work collaboratively with the Lead Dental Nurse and the Matron to escalate department and staffing issues where appropriate
• The post holder will carry out clinical dental nursing on a minimum of two days per week, ensuring credibility with the nursing team and role modelling excellent clinical nursing skills.
• The post holder will line manage the Senior Dental Nurses and an agreed number of Dental Nurses on the department.
• As well as line management of Dental Nurses the post holder will work with closely with the Senior Dental Nurses to delegate a number of key operational tasks to the SDNs in the day-to-day operational management of clinical services
• The post holder will represent their department at nurse management meeting and the clinical governance group and will be expected to take responsibly for delivering agreed actions with nursing teams
• The post holder will deputise for the lead Dental Nurse in their absence
• The post holder will manage a number of required operational tasks for their department, as set out by the Management Team. This will include, as a minimum, responsibility for ordering stock and ensuring maintenance and repair

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.