Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Band 4 Dental Nurse- Restorative Department
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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.
Working days
Working days will be mixed depending on position offered.
Role
Working flexibly within the dental team to provide high quality care to a wide spectrum of patients within the Dental Service, based at Birmingham Dental Hospital (BDH) and/or additional external sites such as Community Dental Services (CDS) if required.
Responsibilities
- Dental Nurses will be expected to work flexibly across the Dental Services.
- To provide chair side assistance to clinicians within the dental service.
- To carry out clerical and administrative duties to ensure efficient operation of the clinic/department.
- Maintain a high standard of patient care and confidentiality within all dental clinics throughout the service.
- To prepare and monitor patients for and during their dental treatment, providing pre and post operative instructions as required.
- To undertake the general care of the surgery including dental equipment/instruments (medical devices) and arrange any necessary repairs as required.
- To ensure medical emergency drugs and equipment are available and up to date.
- To provide chair side assistance and postoperative instructions during general anaesthetic sessions as required.
- To provide oral health education to patients as required by the clinician
- To assist the Senior Dental Nurse in the smooth running of the Dental service.
- To support and assist Clinicians including all staff and Undergraduate disciplines.
- To support and supervise all Apprentice Dental Nurses and Undergraduates.
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About Us
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.
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Contact
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Zara Smith
- Job title: Dental Nurse Manager
- Email address: zara.smithh4@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 01214665545
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