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Join Our Friendly Team at Valley Centre Dental Practice
A great opportunity has come up for the successful candidate to join our friendly team at Valley Centre Dental Practice. As a trainee dental nurse, you will assist the dentist and undergo full training to develop skills to enable you to progress with a view for a full-time vacancy once qualified.
Duties
- Assisting the dentist chairside
- Updating client records
- Cleaning and decontamination of tools and surgery
- Reception duties
- General admin duties
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Course Contents
- Identifying relevant and appropriate dental, oral, craniofacial, and general anatomy
- Evaluating health risks of drug use
- Understanding scientific principles of dental materials
- Identifying signs of abuse, neglect, or trauma
- Assessing patients’ anxiety levels and contributing to diagnostic procedures
- Undertaking orthodontic assessment, obtaining valid consent, and recording patient history and oral health assessments
- Preparation of records, images, equipment, and materials for clinical assessment
- Processing and managing dental radiographs and images
- Managing patient anxiety, monitoring, supporting, and reassuring patients, and identifying changes in reported oral health status
- Making arrangements for follow-up care, providing chairside support, and preparing, mixing, and handling dental materials
- Identifying and explaining risks in the clinical environment
- Implementing effective decontamination and infection control procedures
- Preparing and maintaining the clinical environment
- Identifying, assessing, and managing medical emergencies
- Providing preventive advice and instruction to patients
- Supporting the management of patients with acute oral conditions
- Adopting an evidence-based approach to clinical practice
- Communicating effectively and sensitively with patients, public, and colleagues
- Maintaining contemporaneous, complete, and accurate patient records
- Communicating with care, compassion, empathy, and respect
- Acting appropriately and effectively in professional discussions
- Giving feedback effectively
- Respecting the roles of dental and other healthcare professionals
- Demonstrating effective team working
- Contributing to team dental care
- Managing, referring, or delegating work appropriately
- Taking a patient-centred approach
- Raising concerns about health, behaviour, or performance
- Complying with systems for safe patient care
- Acting in accordance with best practice guidelines
- Acting within legal frameworks
- Acting with integrity
- Demonstrating personal accountability
- Working in partnership to develop a supportive environment
- Leading, managing, and taking responsibility for the actions of colleagues (where appropriate)
- Supporting patients in negotiating barriers to accessing oral healthcare
- Treating patients and colleagues with dignity and respect
- Supporting informed decision-making
- Demonstrating cultural competence
- Providing the best possible outcome for patients
- Speaking up to protect others from harm
- Evaluating the effectiveness of evidence-based prevention
- Proactively addressing discriminatory language and behaviour
- Evaluating the role of health promotion
- Applying the evidence base in relation to environmental impacts of treatment methods
- Contributing positively to healthcare communities
- Evaluating an evidence base
- Utilising feedback for professional development
- Demonstrating personal development planning
- Recording evidence and reflective practice
- Evaluating the impact of new techniques and technologies
- Accurately assessing personal capabilities and limitations
- Recognizing personal assumptions, biases, and prejudices, and managing their impact
- Recognizing the impact of contextual factors on patient safety
- Demonstrating personal responsibility for self-development
- Developing and maintaining professional knowledge and competence
- Demonstrating engagement with strategies for physical and mental wellbeing
- Demonstrating continuous improvement activities
- Recognizing when and how to take action if wellbeing is compromised
- Effectively managing your own time and resources
- Underpinning all patient care with a preventive approach
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GCSEs in English and Maths at grade 4/C or above are desirable. Other relevant qualifications and industry experience can be taken into account. Skills required include IT skills, attention to detail, organization skills, customer care skills, problem-solving skills, presentation skills, administrative skills, team working, initiative, and patience. Travel to the Walsall training centre one day per week is required.
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Upon completion, there is a possibility for full-time employment.
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