Band 5 Senior Dental Nurse Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Evasion Design; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000

Job description

Band 5 Senior Dental Nurse Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Join to apply for the Band 5 Senior Dental Nurse Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust role at Evasion-design.com.

Senior Dental Nurse work within a dental team providing high quality care to a wide spectrum of patients across localities within the integrated Dental Service, Birmingham Dental Hospital (BDH) and/or additional external sites as required.

Senior Dental Nurse will be responsible for the efficient operation in the Restorative One Department within the Birmingham Dental Hospital and work alongside Specialist Dental Nurses to support the Division's aim of providing high quality care for patients. Post holders will be expected to work flexibly across different sites/departments where dental treatment is provided.

There is a requirement to work autonomously to manage a team and use significant discretion when clinical and staffing issues arise.

The role involves maintaining high standards of patient care, supporting dental services, managing clinical duties, ensuring equipment maintenance, and adhering to health and safety protocols. It includes staff training, auditing, risk management, incident handling, and liaising with departments for service improvement. Leadership duties include managing Band 4 dental nurses, supervising apprentices, conducting performance reviews, ensuring compliance with GDC guidelines, and handling staff performance and absence. The position also involves training staff, ensuring mandatory training, mentoring, and evaluating apprentices. Budgetary responsibilities include stock control, ordering consumables, and supporting service needs.

Please see detailed job description and personal specification for roles and responsibilities.

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (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, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation 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 better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.

For further details on the main responsibilities, please see the attached job description and person specification.

This advert closes on Friday 21 Mar 2025.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Management and Manufacturing
• Dentists