Dental Nurse

Job overview

Join Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust and become part of a dedicated Dental Services team delivering high-quality Paediatric and Special Care community dental care. Our services complement both general and hospital dental provision, supporting patients through a collaborative, multi-agency approach. You will work across a diverse range of services including sedation dentistry, paediatric care, special care dentistry, domiciliary visits, bariatric support, and outreach services such as care within Medium Secure Units and mobile dental units for homeless populations.

As a Band 4 Dental Nurse, you will play an essential role in supporting clinicians to deliver safe, effective, and compassionate dental and oral healthcare. You will contribute to maintaining a well-organised and efficient clinical environment while ensuring compliance with professional standards and ongoing registration requirements.

This is a rewarding opportunity to make a real impact on patient care within diverse and often vulnerable communities, working as part of a supportive and forward-thinking healthcare team that prioritises inclusion, quality, and innovation.

Main duties of the job

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

In this role, you will provide high-quality chairside assistance, using your general dental nursing skills to support clinicians and ensure smooth delivery of care. You will help maintain a safe clinical environment through effective infection prevention control, accurate record-keeping, and sound risk assessment practices.

We are looking for a compassionate and motivated individual who embodies our Trust Values Framework—someone who is kind, responsive, and professional, with excellent communication skills. You will actively contribute to positive patient experiences by working in partnership with service users, their families, and carers, ensuring care is respectful, empowering, and person-centred.

You will be committed to continuous professional development, keeping your clinical knowledge up to date and adhering to evidence-based policies and procedures to achieve the best possible patient outcomes.

If you are passionate about delivering inclusive, high-quality care and want to make a difference across a diverse patient population, we would love to hear from you.

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 kentchft.recruitment@nhs.net, 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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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.