HCRG Care Group
Bank Dental Nurse
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Job Introduction
As a Dental nurse you will be part of our valued team in our Community Dental Service, you’ll be based at Buryfields Clinic, Guilford. As well as the attractive hourly rates of pay, at HCRG Care Group you will benefit from:
- £15.47 per hour
- Self-booking and access to all bank shifts! Staff are given access to all Bank shifts within their Business Unit and can self-book providing they meet the shift requirements.
- Request a Duty – Staff can make shifts or Day Off requests prior to the creation of a roster up to six weeks in advance. This helps promote a better work life balance and allows for personal commitments to be met
- HCRG Care Group is pleased to offer access to Wagestream - which lets you track your pay throughout the month and stream your earned wages into your bank account if you need them. No more high-interest loans or overdraft fees - simply get paid as you go.
- Working in an environment focused on the highest clinical and quality standards
- Opportunities to work in different areas and various different services to gain new knowledge and experience
- Access to our Strive for Better networks, a national support and professional network made up of NHS professionals like you, giving you the chance to constantly develop industry-leading care and quality
- Access to our free well-being service available 24/7/365 online and by telephone including; counsellors, post trauma incident support, legal, debt and practical life management helpline, guided self-help, telephonic career coaching and monthly well-being newsletters
- Free statutory and mandatory training, as well as access to a range of courses and e-learning to develop further skills and in-house opportunities continuing your professional development
- Innovative forward-thinking culture with the opportunity to put forward your ideas to contribute to the way we work. You will be encouraged to apply for national funding to drive your initiatives locally to benefit our patients and service users
- Rewarding and supportive teams, you will be recognised and have opportunities to recognise others by nominating for local and national awards annually and taking part in our new virtual “Ask our Executives” event, where you can submit questions to the board and hear updates regularly on company strategy and objectives
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
- Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location
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Job Introduction
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 needed
Main Responsibilities
Patient Care
- Surgery and decontamination room preparation and maintenance
- Stock control
- Radiography – processing digital images
- Decontamination and Infection Prevention and Control as per national and service protocols and processes
- Patient and carer advice
Communication Skills
- 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
- To communicate effectively with all team members using electronic, written or verbal methods
- Providing advice and information to patients and their representatives when necessary
Personal and Professional Development
- To maintain professional skills and knowledge by completing relevant training – including First Aid, Life support (relevant to role), Moving and Handling, Fire Safety and Safeguarding
- To participate in supervision and appraisal programme
Health, Safety and Security
- Use of hoists and other equipment within the service or in patient’s home
- Carry out Infection Prevention procedures to agreed protocols and participate in the care and maintenance of equipment
- Work with others to maintain health and safety, reporting faults as service guidance
Audit, Governance and Quality
- Participate in audits and surveys as requested
- Collection of patient feedback
- Participate in serve governance programs and other quality initiatives
- Prioritise workload effectively
- Suggest areas that could improve quality of service
- Wear service uniform and ID badges at all times
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The Ideal Candidate
We are seeking a dedicated and professional Dental Nurse to join our multidisciplinary team at based at Buryfields Clinic, Guildford, however travel to other sites will be required on service needs. This is a vital role at the heart of our service, providing high-quality customer service and essential dental and administrative support to ensure the smooth and efficient running of our dental clinics.
If you have prior experience working as a dental nurse in Community, we would love to hear from you!
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.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.
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