Dental Nurse

To assist the Community Dental Service (CDS) clinicians and other clinical staff to carry out their duties for a variety of specialist services, working at any dental department within the service

Administrative tasks relating to the service to help ensure the smooth running of the service

This post is responsible for

• Clinical tasks relating to Dental Nursing role, dealing with a variety of adults and children with special needs, including learning/physical disabilities, complex medical histories and
  challenging behaviours
• Providing advice to patients and their representatives including, oral health promotion, post-extraction, GA and sedation as well as general enquiries, dental emergencies and trauma where necessary
• Administrative tasks to support reception/administration team as,
  • Patient Care
    1. Surgery and decontamination room preparation and maintenance
    2. Stock control
    3. Radiography processing digital images
    4. Decontamination and Infection Prevention and Control as per national and service protocols and processes
    5. Patient and carer advice
  • Communication Skills
    1. The patient groups seen in the service have a variety of additional needs, which may be a barrier to communication, so excellent communication and personal skills are required
    2. To
       communicate effectively with all team members using electronic, written or verbal methods
    3. Providing advice and information to patients and their representatives when necessary
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    About the Company
    
    We change lives by transforming health and care.
    
    Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
    
    We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
    
    While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.