Band 4 Dental Nurse Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Are you looking for a new exciting career within the NHS? Are you patient focused and want to deliver high quality dental care? We are seeking enthusiastic, hard working dental nurses to join the Community Dental Nursing Team.
We currently have a vacancy for a Band 4 Dental Nurse:
Hours: 18.75 hours / 0.5 WTE / Working days to be Wednesday all day, Thursday (AM only). Based in the Birmingham locality at the Sparkbrook Health Centre.
Working flexibly within the dental team to provide high quality care to a wide spectrum of patients across localities within the Dental Service, based at Community Dental Services (CDS) including Mobile Clinics and/or additional external sites as required, and at Birmingham Dental Hospital (BDH).
Dental Nurses will be expected to work flexibly across the Community Dental Services (CDS) and provide chair side assistance to clinicians within the dental service.
Key Responsibilities:
* To prepare and monitor patients for and during their dental treatment, providing pre and post operative instructions as required.
* To undertake the general care of the surgery including dental equipment/instruments (medical devices) and arrange any necessary repairs as required.
* To ensure medical emergency drugs and equipment are available and up to date.
* To provide chair side assistance and postoperative instructions during general anaesthetic and exodontia sessions as required.
* To provide oral health education to patients as required by the clinician.
* To assist the Senior Dental Nurse in the smooth running of the Dental service.
* To support and assist clinicians including all student disciplines.
* To support and supervise all apprentice nurses and undergraduate groups.
If you want to be part of our team and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.
This advert closes on Friday 28 Mar 2025.
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