Dental Nurse

Job overview

To be responsible for the provision of Dental Nursing skills supporting the clinician in the delivery of Dental and Oral Health Care. To maintain the efficient running of the Dental Service environment, maintaining clinical professional development and registration. While based at HMP sites the post holder may be required to travel to provide dental nursing or reception cover at other dental sites as per service need.

Please note, this vacancy does not meet the criteria for skilled worker sponsorship and therefore, we are unable to accept applications from candidates that cannot provide documentary evidence of right to work in the United Kingdom.

Main duties of the job

• Maintain clinical registration and uphold and adhere to General Dental Council Standards at all times
• Be an ambassador for the Service, upholding the values of the Trust’s behaviour framework in the discharge of duties and in professional relationships with peers and managers
• Provide chair side support to clinicians promoting the highest standards of  excellence in working practices to ensure the delivery of high quality, patient focused care
• Chaperone clinician at all times during patient treatment
• Ability to travel to other dental sites on any given day
• Maintain 100% compliance with all required mandatory and statutory training requirements, ensuring compliance does not lapse
• Participate in Appraisal and Personal Development process as required
• Monitor and maintain the safety and security of the work environment, adhering to controls identified in risk assessments
• Ensure daily maintenance regimes and checks are made and recorded to ensure correct functionality of equipment, reporting any malfunctions

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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