Apprentice Level 3 Dental Nurse

Apprentice Dental Nurse

Pearce and Nobles are looking for a friendly and welcoming Apprentice Dental Nurse to join their private dental practice based in Long Eaton. Within this role you will gain key skills pivotal in becoming a successful dental nurse in a surgery that provides a wide range of dental treatments in a relaxing environment.

Duties within the role you will be trained to do include:

• Working chairside with a dentist in a busy dental practice
• Ensuring health and safety is adhered to at all times in surgery
• Being professional at all times
• Maintaining good communication at all times
• Making patients feel at ease and comfortable at all times
• Innovating ideas and initiating action to improve the overall perception of the practice, ensuring its good name continues
• Ensuring all facilities are presented to the highest levels of cleanliness and comfort
• Being aware of all health & safety issues within the practice, constantly implementing and assessing procedures, and drawing attention to any unsafe practices
• Ensuring all parts of the practice are safe and secure when not in use
• Covers duties of other members of staff as required
• Undertaking any other duties as may be required to assist in the running of the dental practice
• Portraying a professional and positive image of the dental practice, wearing the uniform provided whilst on duty

This apprenticeship is work-based learning; therefore, most of the time you will be working at the employer's address.

Vacancy Information

Monday – Friday 9am – 5.30pm.
37.5 hours per week

• Customer care skills
• Initiative
• GCSE or equivalent English & maths 4 or C or Level 2 pass (Essential)

You will complete the following on a day release basis once every 2 weeks at Nottingham College's City Hub Campus Centre starting for a total of 18 months:

• Advanced Apprenticeship in Dental Nursing Diploma Level 3 Dental Nursing
• Functional Skills maths OR English Level 2 if not exempt

The potential of ongoing employment as a qualified dental nurse once the apprenticeship has been completed and a position is available at that time.

Employer Information

We’re Pearce & Nobles — a friendly family dentist within easy reach of Nottingham, Derby, and Leicester. We’ve been caring for people and their teeth since 1983. We take the long view, helping you avoid problems rather than selling treatments to fix them. We’re experienced, caring, and fully in touch with the latest technologies — including Enlighten tooth whitening, 3-D scanning for impression-free crowns; smile makeovers, implants (including All-on-4) and other cosmetic treatments.