Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
Dental Nurse
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Become part of a dedicated Dental Services team delivering high-quality Paediatric and Special Care community dental care. Our services complement both general and hospital dental provision, supporting patients through a collaborative, multi-agency approach. You will work across a diverse range of services including sedation dentistry, paediatric care, special care dentistry, domiciliary visits, bariatric support, and outreach services such as care within Medium Secure Units and mobile dental units for homeless populations.
About the Role
As a Band 4 Dental Nurse, you will play an essential role in supporting clinicians to deliver safe, effective, and compassionate dental and oral healthcare. You will contribute to maintaining a well-organised and efficient clinical environment while ensuring compliance with professional standards and ongoing registration requirements.
This is a rewarding opportunity to make a real impact on patient care within diverse and often vulnerable communities, working as part of a supportive and forward-thinking healthcare team that prioritises inclusion, quality, and innovation.
Please note, this vacancy does not meet the criteria for skilled worker sponsorship. Therefore, we are unable to accept applications from candidates that cannot provide documentary evidence of right to work in the United Kingdom.
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Key Responsibilities
- Provide high-quality chairside assistance using your general dental nursing skills to support clinicians and ensure smooth delivery of care.
- Help maintain a safe clinical environment through effective infection prevention control, accurate record-keeping, and sound risk assessment practices.
Person Specification
We are looking for a compassionate and motivated individual who embodies our Trust Values Framework—someone who is kind, responsive, and professional, with excellent communication skills. You will actively contribute to positive patient experiences by working in partnership with service users, their families, and carers, ensuring care is respectful, empowering, and person-centred.
- Committed to continuous professional development, keeping your clinical knowledge up to date and adhering to evidence-based policies and procedures to achieve the best possible patient outcomes.
Why Join Us?
If you are passionate about delivering inclusive, high-quality care and want to make a difference across a diverse patient population, we would love to hear from you.
Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust is due to integrate with Medway Community Healthcare on 1 October 2026. Following integration and to align our community services to the new Neighbourhood Model of care delivery, there will be a period of consultation which may result in changes affecting some services, teams or roles. Depending on the area you are applying to work in, this could include potential changes to your role, work base, reporting arrangements, or terms and conditions of employment. Any changes would be subject to consultation and managed sensitively and in line with relevant employment processes. Please do contact the recruiting manager if you have any concerns about this so they can answer any questions you might have.
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Rated ‘Outstanding’ by CQC, we deliver high-quality care that improves the health of our communities. We are looking for people who share our values: Compassionate, Aspirational, Responsive and Excellent.
We are proud to be an inclusive, welcoming organisation and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We use protected characteristic information for monitoring only and it is not seen by recruiting managers, except where applicants choose to be considered under our disability guaranteed interview scheme.
We know life outside work matters. As a flexible working-friendly organisation, we welcome conversations about arrangements that help you thrive while supporting excellent care for our patients.
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For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Kelly Harris
- Job title: Practice Manager
- Email address: kelly.harris5@nhs.net
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