Community Dental Nurse

Job overview

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a full time Band 4 Dental Nurse in Community Dental Services based at Shrewsbury Dental clinic in Inner North East London (INEL).

We are seeking to appoint someone who is passionate about delivering a high-quality standard of care to our patients across London borough of Hackney, Tower Hamlets and Newham.

The range of services includes Sedation, Special Care Dentistry, Paediatric Dentistry, Domiciliary care, Bariatric and Dental Mobile service (Homeless/Medium secure unit) You will need to be able to work in a very busy environment whilst remaining calm and be able to demonstrate a good understand of and commitment to delivering excellent standards of care. A Team Leader with specific responsibility for providing chair side Dental Nursing for special care group of patients in clinical setting and on outreach. Whilst the post will be based at an agreed clinic the role is peripatetic and will involve covering at all dental sites in INEL.

You will be required to have the qualification level specified in the person specification in order to carry out the job, however, we do welcome applicants from individuals wishing to further their knowledge and skills and to gain this recognized qualification, which we will support. So, if you do not have the essential qualification for the role, this may not be an automatic barrier to you being offered an interview.

Main duties of the job

You will be delivering high quality customer services to patients and visitors. Providing chair side assistance, visiting patients in the community (domiciliary, Homeless centres and the medium secure unit in mobile dental unit) covering reception and supporting the entire dental team.

• Organisation of the dental kits and materials for Domiciliary dental visit
• Undertake specific roles as and when directed by the Dental Nurse team leader to support the day to day running of the clinics, implementing service initiatives/developments to ensure compliance with regulatory standards including, but not limited to, CQC, Dental Practice Inspections, Standard Operating Procedures, Health & Safety Risk Assessment etc.
• Dental Nurse to ensure standardised practices across all sites.
• You will need to be able to demonstrate strong leadership, with the ability to work independently, proactively and under pressure.

The attached job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the main duties in job description and criteria in the person specification

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a community Trust, many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. Where driving is a requirement of the role, you will be asked to confirm that you hold a full UK driving licence or a full driving licence issued by an EU country (not exchanged from a non-EU country) to proceed with your application. We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment. If you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via [email protected], quoting the vacancy reference number, so we can support you further.

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.

At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

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