Lead Dental Nurse (XR06)

An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit a Band 6 Lead Dental Nurse with demonstrable leadership skills and experience to join the Leeds Dental Institutes leadership team working within the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

You will be forward thinking with excellent communication, be a people person with experience of supervising and leading a team. You will need excellent organisational and IT skills, be able to encompass and manage change, whilst ensuring the team is engaged. You will have the ability to be self-motivated, work independently as well as being able to engage with the multidisciplinary team and practice patient-centred care.

The successful applicant will strengthen our specialist dental nurse team, providing support and leadership to the multidisciplinary team by working in close collaboration with other professionals, provide expert advice to patients, education to staff and students and will work across the outpatient service provide high quality patient care.

06/11/2024

20/11/2024

As the Lead Dental Nurse you will be responsible for managing and providing professional/clinical supervision to multi-disciplinary dental teams, including staff appraisals, attendance management, rotas, recruitment, deployment of both qualified and apprentice dental nurses within the clinical areas.

You will participate in service improvement projects or development programmes including carrying out evaluations and audits while continuing to deliver exceptional standards of safe, effective care to meet the Trust and Leeds University School of Dentistry standards and financial commitments.

The jobholder will support the Head of Dental Nursing in the day to day management of approximately 90 whole time equivalent dental nurses and support staff. You will support and deputise for the Head of Dental Nursing, attend meetings and cascade information to the dental team.

The jobholder will be responsible for the delegated budgetary management/performance of nursing pay and non-pay budgets including managing budget for stock and equipment purchases.

You must have commitment to putting patients' needs first within a friendly, supportive, efficient, clean and safe environment, providing a high standard of care whilst always ensuring patients are treated with the utmost respect.

Full GDC registration is essential and further professional development is strongly encouraged.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK and employs more than 20,000 staff across seven hospitals.

The Leeds Dental Institute is a highly regarded, forward thinking and well-established service within the Trust providing specialist dental care to the patients of West Yorkshire and further afield, as well as training the next generation of specialists and dental care professionals and providing facilities for the University of Leeds School of Dentistry for undergraduate student training placements. The Leeds Dental Institute sees approximately 80,000 outpatient appointments annually across our main site and 5 outreach sites (Leeds, Westbourne Green Bradford, Orchard Park Hull, Chapel Allerton Hospital, St Jamess Hospital).

In 2018 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated our service as 'Outstanding'.

You will benefit from access to our own comprehensive resources, rewards and benefits.

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Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further detailed information regarding this role.

Working Pattern: 37.5 hours per week over 5 days. Monday to Friday 08:30 - 17:00

• Effective interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal)
• Be a motivated team member and independent worker
• Ability to organise and prioritise own and others workload
• Ability to teach, supervise and assess qualified and unqualified staff
• Competent and accurate IT skills

• Experience of recruitment and selection

• Must possess either: National certificate for Dental Nurses, NVQ level 3 Dental Nurse or Hospital Certificate
• Dental Nurse registration with the General Dental Council
• Evidence of ongoing professional development and commitment to lifelong learning
• Evidence of leadership training / development
• Evidence of post qualification

• Understanding of training needs in relation to post

• Significant experience caring for patients and insight into clinical speciality
• Significant experience of clinical leadership in managing a department/team
• Service development and/or change management
• Clinical audit and standard setting

• Awareness of policies and procedures in relation to Infection Prevention and Control, Decontamination, Information Governance and Health & Safety

Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Leeds Dental Institute
Clarendon Way
Leeds
LS2 9LU

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