Job summary
Employer heading
Dental Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 4
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust opened in 1948 and provides a range of elective, non-elective, surgical, medical, women’s, children’s, diagnostic and therapeutic services to a population of more than 350,000 people.
The hub of the Trust is located on the outskirts of Nuneaton and its services cover a large footprint, including north Warwickshire, south west Leicestershire, and north Coventry. We also provide primary and community services across Coventry, Warwickshire and Leicestershire.
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Job overview
Job Title: Dental Nurse
Hours per week: 37.5 hours a week
Perm/Fixed Term: Fixed Term - 12 months
Salary: £25,147 - £27,596 per annum
Please note if you commence in post prior to October 2024, you will be paid in line with 2023/2024 agenda for change pay scales.
Closing Date: 30th September 2024
Interview Date: 9th October 2024
This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly.
All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.
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Main duties of the job
We are recruiting for a Full time Fixed Term post; for 37.5 hours but would be willing to discuss part time working.
The successful candidates will be based at Stratford Hospital.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills are required for this post. Experience in General Dental Practice is desirable.
Car owner/driver essential.
Working for our organisation
Here at George Eliot our vision to ‘excel at patient care’ taking centre stage. An ever evolving clinically- led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive health services delivered by inspiring and compassionate staff who share our corporate values:
Effective open communication
Excellence and safety in everything we do
Challenge but support
Expect respect and dignity
Local health that inspires confidence
Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, extensive in-house course learning directory, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will a dental nurse, working within the Community, for the Warwickshire Special Care Dental Service and will be responsible for providing close support dental nursing duties to clinicians at your base site and also a variety of clinics throughout Warwickshire; to enable a full range of special care dentistry provision for our client groups. There may also be an opportunity to support the general anaesthetic and sedation services.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills are required for this post. Experience in General Dental Practice is desirable. Car owner/driver essential.
Person specification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience of working within the NHS and as a Qualified Dental Nurse
- Working with patients with special care requirements, medically compromised and phobic or high risk.
Desirable criteria
- Working with patients with special care requirements, medically compromised and phobic or high risk.
Qualification and Professional Training
Essential criteria
- National Certificate for Dental Nurses
- Registered with the GDC
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Good organizational and time management skills
- Good negotiation/interpersonal skills
- Ability to work under pressure, to tight deadlines
- Flexible approach
- Enthusiastic and motivated with the ability to motivate others
Desirable criteria
- Computer skills
Trust Values
Essential criteria
- Effective Open Communication
- Excellence and safety in all that we do
- Challenge but support
- Expect respect and dignity
- Local healthcare that inspires confidence
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Flexible and innovative
- Friendly and co-operative
- Attentive to detail
- Team worker
Other
Desirable criteria
- Willing to attend occasional meetings at all Trust sites
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sharon Bennet
- Job title
- Dental Governance Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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