# Dental Receptionist and Decontamination Support Worker

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Community Dental Services CIC.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Community Dental Services CIC
- **Location:** Warrior House Health Centre, 1st Floor
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Receptionist
- **Grade:** Band 2
- **Salary:** £25,272 Per annum pro rata (Actual £15,163.20)
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-17T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-03T14:12:33.755Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Bedfordshire/Southend/Community_Dental_Services_CIC/Dental/Dental-v8272129
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8272129?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://communitydentalservices.co.uk/

## Job Content

### Job overview

### Dental Receptionist & Decontamination Support Worker

### Permanent, Part Time 22.5 Hours

Hours: 22.5 hours, 3 days per week

Base: Warrior House Health Centre, 1st Floor, 42-82 Southchurch Road, Southend, SS1 2LZ Salary: £25,272 per annum pro rata (actual £15,163.20)

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Have you ever pictured yourself working in a dental clinic with a highly experienced and specialised team?

If your answer is ‘yes’ and you see yourself as a caring, compassionate, flexible, and approachable person where you will be appreciated by patients and the team, then this is the place for you.

### Main duties of the job

What are we looking for?

You will be responsible for providing reception and administrative support in our clinic and on occasion to assist in the decontamination and maintenance of dental instruments and equipment.

Your good communication skills and effortless ways of making people feel at ease will be a real asset when providing valuable support in the clinic.

Most importantly we would like you to have a welcoming and upbeat approach and be a helping hand in the clinic for both employees and patients.

Post holders will be expected to provide support at other clinics across the county when necessary, therefore ability to travel is essential.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further details on the main duties and responsibilities for the role, please see the attached job description.

### Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

## Person Specification

### Dental Receptionist and Decontamination Support Worker

**Essential**

- Please see attached Person Specification within the Job Description

## Documents

- [job description (pdf, 506.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10587420)
- [why work for cds? (pdf, 207.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2321)
- [additional information (pdf, 119.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10587421)

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