Band 5 Specialist Dental Nurse Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Evasion Design; Walsall; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000

Job description

Band 5 Specialist Dental Nurse Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Are you looking for a new exciting career within the NHS? Are you patient focussed and want to deliver high quality dental care? We are seeking enthusiastic, hard working dental nurses to join the Community Dental Nursing Team.

We currently have a vacancy for a Band 5 Specialist Dental Nurse:

15.0 hours / 0.4 WTE / Working days to be Monday & Tuesday. Based in the Walsall locality at the Brace Street Clinic.

There is a requirement to hold a post-registration qualification, certificate or equivalent in Dental Radiography and provide evidence of continual professional development, where relevant.

Responsibilities include:

1. Working flexibly within the dental team to provide high quality care to a wide spectrum of patients across localities within the Dental Service, based at Community Dental Services (CDS) including Mobile Clinics and/or additional external sites as required, and at Birmingham Dental Hospital (BDH).
2. Delivery of high-quality clinical nursing support for the specialty across Dental Services Division clinical sites to respond to the complex needs of the patients that meet the specialty criteria.
3. Providing chair side assistance to clinicians within the dental service.
4. Carrying out clerical and administrative duties to ensure efficient operation of the clinic/department.
5. Maintaining a high standard of patient care and confidentiality within all dental clinics throughout the service and managing patients with complex dental, social and medical needs.
6. Supporting the taking of dental x-rays, clinical photographs and impressions.
7. Supporting recording of patient pre-operative assessments, e.g., height, weight, and blood pressure.
8. Liaising with the Tutor Dental Nurses, Dental Nurse Manager and other Senior Dental Nurses to ensure correct training needs are met for staff and apprentice dental nurses within the service.
9. Stock control/rotation and the ordering of dental consumables as required from appropriate suppliers.
10. Preparing and maintaining specialised dental equipment and disposing of clinical waste including bodily fluids.
11. In conjunction with the Senior Dental Nurse being responsible for ensuring high standards of Infection Prevention & Control and Decontamination processes.
12. Maintaining patient confidentiality; supporting the management of concerns/complaints and implementation of audit outcomes.
13. Reporting, liaising and prioritising defective equipment to the Estates Department.
14. Preparing clinical environments including notes, x-rays, models and relevant equipment and clinical materials.
15. Supporting departmental inductions in the specialty for all new staff and students of varying grades within the speciality.
16. In conjunction with the Senior Dental Nurse ensuring that all daily mandatory checks are carried out and recorded including managing the clinical environment.

BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to Be Part of Our Team and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.

This advert closes on Friday 28 Mar 2025.