Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Band 5 Specialist Sedation Dental Nurse (IHS)
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A new and exciting opportunity to support Specialist Patient Pathways within the Community Dental Service.
We are seeking an enthusiastic, dynamic, and forward-thinking Specialist Sedation Dental Nurse to join the Birmingham Community Dental Nursing team.
We are a multi-disciplinary team that carries out a variety of different dental treatments under local anaesthetic, conscious sedation, and general anaesthesia.
Requirements
- The post-holder must hold a Dental Sedation Certificate for Inhalation Sedation as a minimum.
- Be up to date with Sedation training.
- Able to supply a copy of their CPD log relating to their Sedation specialism.
Job Plan
- Tuesday (8:45am - 12:30pm) - Sparkbrook Health Centre
- Thursday (8:45am - 5:00pm) - Sparkbrook Health Centre
- Friday (8:45am - 5:00pm) - Northfield Health Centre
It is essential that the post-holder must be flexible and able to travel to other sites/locations within the division as required.
Responsibilities
- Support the clinical management of the dental specialty.
- Ensure the provision of a high standard of patient care and that all Trust policies and procedures are adhered to.
- Deliver high-quality clinical nursing support for the specialties across Dental Services Division clinical sites to respond to the complex needs of the patients that meet the specialty criteria.
- Maintain a high standard of patient care and confidentiality within all dental clinics throughout the service and manage patients with complex dental, social, and medical needs.
- Stock control/rotation and the ordering of dental consumables as required from appropriate suppliers.
- Prepare and maintain specialized dental equipment and dispose of clinical waste including bodily fluids.
- Support recording of patient pre-operative assessments. E.g. height, weight, and blood pressure.
- Carry out any other duties relevant to this role specified by the Dental Nurse Manager and/or Dental Nurse Tutor(s).
- Provide clinical nursing support for radiography within the department to support the clinical patient pathway.
- Identify relevant staff & student who require additional training within the specialty & escalate as appropriate.
- Support the School of Dental Nursing, University of Birmingham, School of Hygiene and Therapy, and relevant Heads of Service to provide team training for all disciplines.
- Adhere to procedures to support and maintaining achieving national targets of compliance.
- Ensure to implement agreed, local Divisional and Trust Policies.
- Implement outcomes in respect of Clinical Governance & Quality Improvement relating to the specialty.
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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 recognized 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.
For further details/informal visits, contact:
- Name: Beverly Taylor
- Job title: Dental Nurse Manager
- Email address: beverly.taylor2@nhs.net
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