Job summary
Job Title: Dental Nurse
Hours per week: hours a week
Perm/Fixed Term: Fixed Term - 12 months
Salary: £25,147 - £27,596 per annum
Please note if you commence in post prior to October 2024, you will be paid in line with 2023/2024 agenda for change pay scales.
Closing Date: 30th September 2024
Interview Date: 9th October 2024
This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly.
All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.
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Main duties of the job
We are recruiting for a Full time Fixed Term post; for hours but would be willing to discuss part time working.
The successful candidates will be based at StratfordHospital.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills arerequired for this post. Experience in General Dental Practice is desirable.
Car owner/driver essential .
About us
Here at George Eliot our vision to ' excel at patient care' taking centre stage. An ever evolving clinically- led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive health services delivered by inspiring and compassionate staff who share our corporate values:
E ffective open communication
E x cellence and safety in everything we do
C hallenge but support
E xpect respect and dignity
L ocal health that inspires confidence
Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, extensive in-house course learning directory, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will a dental nurse, working within the Community, for the Warwickshire Special Care Dental Service and will be responsible for providing close support dental nursing duties to clinicians at your base site and also a variety of clinics throughout Warwickshire; to enable a full range of special care dentistry provision for our client groups. There may also be an opportunity to support the general anaesthetic and sedation services.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills are required for this post. Experience in General Dental Practice is desirable. Car owner/driver essential .
Person Specification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
1. Experience of working within the NHS and as a Qualified Dental Nurse
2. Working with patients with special care requirements, medically compromised and phobic or high risk.
Desirable
3. Working with patients with special care requirements, medically compromised and phobic or high risk.
Qualification and Professional Training
Essential
4. National Certificate for Dental Nurses
5. Registered with the GDC
6. Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
Skills and Abilities
Essential
7. Good organizational and time management skills
8. Good negotiation/interpersonal skills
9. Ability to work under pressure, to tight deadlines
10. Flexible approach
11. Enthusiastic and motivated with the ability to motivate others
Desirable
12. Computer skills
Trust Values
Essential
13. Effective Open Communication
14. Excellence and safety in all that we do
15. Challenge but support
16. Expect respect and dignity
17. Local healthcare that inspires confidence
Personal Qualities
Essential
18. Flexible and innovative
19. Friendly and co-operative
20. Attentive to detail
21. Team worker
Other
Desirable
22. Willing to attend occasional meetings at all Trust sites